Wisbech Castle

20/01/2025

A date for your diary:

Wisbech Castle will be holding an open day on Sunday 20th April 2025.

We will be open from Midday until 4PM giving free tours of the Castle and Gardens, including the history of the site.

If you would love to visit, learn a little about the Castle and have an enjoyable time, pop along between Midday and 4PM then!

19/01/2025

This morning was spent taking down the Christmas Decorations

Thank you to Barbara, David and their friend who got all of the Downstairs cleared with Susan. Steve, Sam, Sarah and Amanda worked on the middle floor.

We will be programming in dates for next year so keep an eye out :)

15/12/2024

10/12/2024

Last Call - this is TOMORROW (Sunday 15th December)

On Sunday 15th December we are opening Wisbech Castle for a FREE interactive family Christmas event, which is particularly aimed at families with younger children who love Santa Come and see the beautiful traditional decorations generously donated and installed by The Retreat Hair Salon. Bring the kids to take part in activities like making reindeer food and writing a letter to Santa, meet Christmas Elves and other Christmas characters as the preparations for Christmas continue. There is a rumour that Santa may even be in his grotto! 🙂

How it works:
There are no tickets or timing for the event. Come to the Front Entrance of Wisbech Castle, between 11AM and 5.30PM, if there's a queue you can always try again later if you dont want to stand in line. A visit takes approx 30 minutes, and visits are limited to one per group.

Availability is subject to how busy the queue is, but we've made window of entrance six and a half hours to hopefully allow the maximum number of people to come and enjoy the festive fun.

Please note:
Because Wisbech Castle is an old heritage building, it is not accessible to wheelchairs and is not accessible for those who aren't able to negotiate stairs easily.

Hope to see you there!

07/12/2024

This morning we had our first wreath making workshop. The ladies enjoyed a quick tour of the building before getting to work in the Fendick room creating some amazing wreaths. A coffee break in the Scullery before the finishing touches were put in place.
If you would like to hold a workshop, or even just rent a room for a family gathering, contact Wisbech Town Council .

25/11/2024

Sneak peek of the Castle ready for Christmas

Thank you so much to The Retreat Hairdressers for giving up their time and decorations for this , it’s hugely appreciated

14/11/2024

CPP Community Drop-in at Wisbech Castle

28th November 9am-11am

11/11/2024

On Sunday 15th December we are opening Wisbech Castle for a FREE interactive Christmas event. Come and see the beautiful traditional decorations generously donated and installed by The Retreat Hair Salon. Bring the kids to take part in activities like making reindeer food and writing a letter to Santa, meet Christmas Elves and other Christmas characters as the preparations for Christmas continue. There is a rumour that Santa may even be in his grotto! :)

There are no tickets or timing for the event. Come to the Front Entrance of Wisbech Castle, between 11AM and 5.30PM, if there's a queue you can always try again later if you dont want to stand in line. A visit takes approx 30 minutes, and visits are limited to one per group.

Availability is subject to how busy the queue is, but we've made window of entrance six and a half hours to hopefully allow the maximum number of people to come and enjoy the festive fun.

Hope to see you there.

30/10/2024

18/10/2024

🎄🎄Watch this space

Christmas experience and a meeting with Santa happening at Wisbech Castle on Sunday 15th December

More details to follow soon but here’s a little sneak peek!
The gorgeous decorations have been put up and donated by The Retreat Hair Salon

24/09/2024

Tonight The Retreat Hair Salon came to view the Castle to talk about our exciting Christmas plans

They have kindly offered to donate and install Christmas Decorations for the Castle. For those of you who don’t know, The Retreat have an award-winning Christmas tree and their decorations are always the talk of the Town.

We are so grateful to this supportive local business and also very excited!!!! 🎅🎄🎄

22/09/2024

This afternoon we have been hosting The Mayor Of Wisbech with a fundraising afternoon tea. The Rock Choir accompanied our very own Poshpaws for a few numbers. Thank you also to the local Air Cadets for being on hand to welcome everyone and show them where to go.

17/09/2024

Plenty going on at Wisbech Castle today.

Trevor and Amanda and the garden volunteers are working hard moving and weeding and making plans for future garden surprises.

Meanwhile Steve Tierney acted as tour guide for our second visit from the Fire Service, who were great guests and who seemed to really like learning about the history and looking around the site.

Everybody is hands-on for the Mayor's Function this weekend, tidying, cleaning and preparing.

12/09/2024

We had a lovely day today welcoming the kids and teachers of Clarkson Infant School to Wisbech Castle. They came in two shifts, the morning and the afternoon, but there was a lunchtime crossover where they had their lunch as a picnic in the gardens.

The children were exceptionally well-behaved and asked interesting and thoughtful questions. They seemed to have a nice time and as ever the highlight was the Vaults.

Thanks to the volunteers who spent the day helping including our Caretaker Trevor Ketteringham, Mr Glover, and our two tour guides Susan Wallwork and Steve Tierney.

One of the main reasons we all work hard to keep the Castle alive and thriving is for this sort of public access, particularly educational tours. The fact that these were a young crowd just made it better - the earlier children have an understanding of Wisbech's history and heritage the better.

Thanks all, it was a really nice day.

24/07/2024

Our fabulous caretaker, Trevor, set-up (with some help from Chris) for a private event at the Castle held last night. If you want to hire Wisbech Castle for your own event, please contact 01945 461333 or email [email protected]

29/06/2024

We had the busiest day ever today with the living history and the yarnbomb at the Castle

If you missed it there is another chance to see it tomorrow between 10 and 4

28/06/2024

After a busy couple of weeks hosting the Wisbech Reads event, we are now preparing for the invasion of the Militias group and the Yarn Bomb team.
Come along tomorrow between 10am-4pm and see what is happening!
Good luck to Sarah Perkins and the crew setting up the yarn bomb!