What’s On In March

Willow Weaving Workshop

Friday 6th March 2026

THIS WORKSHOP IS NOW FULLY BOOKED

Make your choice of chicken, cockerel or pheasant for your home or garden.

All materials will be provided including a plinth for your bird.

You will be led through the process step by step with written and verbal instructions and demonstrations to follow. All materials provided, you just need to bring a pair of secateurs and and apron to protect your clothes.. Some strength in your hands is essential.

You can bring a packed lunch or you can eat in the café at Arley. Tea, coffee and biscuits will be provided to keep you going.

£75pp

Workshops run from 10am - 4pm.

Wedding Viewing Days

Saturday 7th & Sunday 8th March 2026

Come along and see the magnificent Hall set up for a wedding. Your wedding can be as grand or as intimate as you would like. Chat to the Arley staff who will be able to answer any questions you may have about any part of your special day. There are various locations at Arley where you can get married, from inside The Hall, in the Gardens in our award winning double herbaceous border or in the historic Cruck Barn, making it your choice.

You can see them all at this Wedding Viewing day.

Open 11.00am to 3.00pm. No booking necessary, free entry and free parking.

Spring Beginners Botanical Watercolours Workshop

Sunday 8th, 15th & 29th March 2026

THESE WORKSHOP ARE NOW FULLY BOOKED

Sue McHugh, is a Fellow of the Society of Botanical Artists and is the current Artist in Residence at Knowsley Hall. Sue is hosting a series of 2 hour, relaxed botanical watercolour art classes, aimed at beginners in the Coach House at Arley each month throughout the year.

Each workshop last 2 hours.

£50pp and includes a hot drink & cake as well as access to the gardens (normally £13) and parking (normally £4).

10 places per session so booking is essential.

The workshop requires no experience and the easy-to-follow process will walk you through the key steps to producing realistic botanical watercolours with real impact!

All professional art materials will be provided, just turn up!

What you will learn:

- Key elements of botanical illustration
- The art materials Sue uses
- Selecting your botanical specimen to paint
- Composition and common elements of botanical layouts
- Sue's easy-to-follow step-by-step watercolour technique

The focus will be learning about the watercolour process used to produce a spring painting to take away.

Sue's aim is to share her love for botanical watercolours and to demystify the key stages to creating successful paintings.

Click here to book.

Discover Tree Climbing

Saturday 14th March 2026

For ages 6 years and upwards, adults and children can experience a unique activity within the canopy of some fantastic trees. Tree climbing allows children to develop physical and mental skills, gain in confidence and develop their team building skills, all at the same time as having fun.

If you’re looking for a unique gift, then why not purchase a gift voucher which is redeemable at one of the tree climbing events.

Click here to book

Hall Open

Saturday 14th, Sunday 15th & Monday 16th March 2026

Entry to the Hall will be from 10am – 4.30pm (last entry 4pm). Adult £8.00, Child (4-16) £4.00, Family (2 adults & up to 3 children) £22.00. No need to book, but pre-booked tickets at a discounted rate are available using the Buy Tickets link above.

PLEASE NOTE: Hall entry is only available as an upgrade after paid garden entry.

PLEASE ALSO NOTE that included in your visit on Monday 16th March will be a piano recital by pianist Janusz Piotrowicz de Jagiellon. Further information is below.

Piano Recital

Monday 16th March 2026

Included in your upgraded entry to the hall (see details above) there will be a performance by the pianist Janusz Piotrowicz de Jagiellon.

As a schoolboy, Janusz Piotrowicz made his piano concerto début in Windsor Castle with Rachmaninov 3, and his London recital début with Chopin's 2nd and 3rd Sonatas and the Brahms Paganini Variations after winning the Nawrocki Prize for the most poetic interpreter in the 1975 Warsaw International Chopin Piano Competition.

He launched his international career, giving up to 300 performances a year, and staging three-part epic recital programmes, which included Chopin’s Four Ballades, Four Scherzi, Twenty-four Preludes and Twenty-seven Etudes, as well as several cycles of the complete Beethoven Piano Sonatas and Concertos. In 1994 he performed to 5,000 people at the Chopin Memorial in Poland's capital, on the 50th anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising.

Piotrowicz is founder and conductor of the Orchestra of the World (L'Orchestre du Monde). His Royal Albert Hall series has included performances of Bach's Mass in B minor (with Chorale du Monde), Dvorak's New World Symphony, Tchaikovsky 5 and Beethoven 5. Other recent highlights include Tchaikovsky's Pathétique and Rachmaninov 2 with the Hallé, Mahler 1, Tchaikovsky 4 and Shostakovich 5 with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Brahms 1 and 4, Shostakovich 10 and Sibelius 1 with the Orchestra of Opera North, and the complete Beethoven Symphony Cycle with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London.

Janusz Piotrowicz is also founder and artistic director of the Ripon International Festival of Music and the Arts. In 1986, he established The World Trust, which promotes and supports humanitarian and educational causes across the globe.

Janusz will be playing in the Drawing Room at 11am and 2pm (45 minutes each time).

Spring Plant Fair

Sunday 22nd March 2026

Admission is £5.00 per person and includes full access to the gardens and the plant fair (gardens normally £13.00 per person).

Child (4-16) FREE (normally £6.50).

Parking FREE (normally £4.00 per car).

No need to pre-book.

Open 10am - 4pm, dogs welcome on a lead.

Click here to arrange a group visit with Plant Hunters Fairs to this event.

The Peaky Blinders Return To Arley Hall Exhibition

Friday 27th, Saturday 28th, Sunday 29th & Monday 30th March 2026

Iconic rooms in The Hall, as used in Peaky Blinders series 3, 4, 5 & 6 will be open and dressed in the style they were for filming.

There will also be 3 original costumes used in the production on display. Oswald Moseley’s Suit and Diana Mitford’s dress featured in Series 6 and Ada Shelby’s dress features in Series 3.

Cars from the era will be on show outside the Hall on Sunday 29th.

Peaky look-a-likes will be here on Saturday 28th & Sunday 29th – why not have your photo taken with Arthur? You will be allowed to take photographs of the rooms as you walk around. Why not come dressed up and take a picture as you stand over Tommy's desk?

But don't worry if you haven't got an outfit, there will be a selection of coats and hats in one of the rooms that you can try on and get into character.

Open 10am - 4.30pm (last entry 3.30pm), free flow through the Hall. Book your tickets in advance online to get discounted prices or pay on the day at the gift shop entrance and upgrade your ticket at the Hall to gain entry into the Peaky Exhibition.