{"title": "Hunt: Villainy At Valence", "start": "2026-10-24T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-10-31T00:00:00Z", "place": "Valence House", "address": "Becontree Avenue, RM8 3HT Dagenham", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "kids-family", "tags": ["occasion/halloween"], "description": "A drop-in family trail at the museum where visitors hunt for mini-villain figures hidden through the galleries. The event is the work of the B.A.D. Fairy, who has gathered her mischievous cousins, wicked allies and misunderstood friends from across time, universes and pop culture – Ursula, Captain Hook, Soot Sprites and Draco Malfoy among them – for a wild Halloween family dinner. Her chaotic notes are scattered all over the museum as she excuses their behaviour, rates their manners and tries to keep order, and you must track down all the mini-villains before she loses her temper and casts another spell. It is free, suitable for all ages, and runs over the October half-term with parent supervision required.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/hunt-villainy-at-valence-40050/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c2ebdc3f8fa4ca31560cb1a78f6f833f79b4107d4b60c47d70606711c6ac5e3a-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-10-24T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-10-31T00:00:00Z", "place": "Valence House", "address": "Becontree Avenue, RM8 3HT Dagenham", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Earlsfield's Halloween Hunt", "start": "2026-10-31T10:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Halfway House", "address": "Garratt Lane 521, SW18 4SR London", "price": "Tickets from £8.00", "price_from": "8.00", "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "kids-family", "tags": ["games/treasure-hunt", "occasion/halloween"], "description": "The Earlsfield Halloween Hunt is a child-friendly daytime treasure hunt turning Earlsfield High Street into a pumpkin-lit Halloween trail. It is run by the Halfway House, Earlsfield's family friendly pub. Participants pick up a Halloween map at the pub, follow local shops collecting letters and numbers, trick-or-treat inside each one, and crack the code back at the pub for a mystery prize. Costumes and trick-or-treat buckets are encouraged.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/earlsfields-halloween-hunt-50268/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c77b0070176db4ce5816ba00d84358142af4e5b634905154c8334117f867358d-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Millie’s Magical Spells and Potions Trail", "start": "2026-10-24T10:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-10-31T17:00:00Z", "place": "Honeywood Museum", "address": "SM5 3NX", "price": "£2", "price_from": "2.00", "price_to": "2.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "kids-family", "tags": ["art/crafts", "occasion/halloween"], "description": "Millie’s Magical Spells and Potions Trail is a witch and wizarding adventure for the half-term holidays at Honeywood. The Friends of Honeywood Museum invite visitors to follow a magical trail and get crafty by decorating their own model cauldron, pumpkin mask, and wizarding hat. Visitors can keep an eye out for Millie in her frighteningly wonderful costume and are encouraged to dress up too.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/millies-magical-spells-and-potions-trail-39197/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/48af3c3681a58cb042c1aea8e4780f4e273366f4342c685ac8794b54b3a78fce-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Halloween at the Museum", "start": "2026-10-31T19:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-01T00:00:00Z", "place": "Natural History Museum", "address": "Cromwell Road, SW7 5BD London", "price": "From £65, Members: from £58", "price_from": "65.00", "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://ticketing.nhm.ac.uk/events/VISEV-HWM", "category": "party-club", "tags": ["occasion/halloween"], "description": "Halloween at the Museum is an after-hours Halloween party held among the skeletons and specimens of a natural history museum. The museum itself invites guests to a night of a live band, a silent disco in the Earth Hall, and ghostly activities. Regular ticket holders explore the galleries among Vampiric Lords and Ladies, meet vampiric musicians, attend the wedding ceremony of the Vampiric Council's leader, chat with scientists about spooky specimens, and enjoy after-hours access to the galleries and exhibitions. Premium 'Very Important Vampire' tickets add a private VIV area, bar, free drink, and entertainment, and the event is for ages 18+ only.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/halloween-at-the-museum-37302/", "official_url": "https://www.nhm.ac.uk/events/halloween", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b44d56d8d6f123bcb5bc06bbd2ecd1b5a4bd601fabb41c7f68bf407834505c67-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Sketchy Halloween at HOME", "start": "2026-10-31T16:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-01T01:30:00Z", "place": "Home", "address": "Deptford High Street 37, SE8 4AD London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "festivals-street", "tags": ["art/drawing", "occasion/halloween"], "description": "Sketchy Halloween at HOME is a day-into-night Halloween event for the whole family. It features Exquisite Corpse drawing workshops, face painting, a treasure hunt and DJs. A family-friendly drop-in workshop runs in the afternoon, where guests of all ages and abilities create weird and wonderful creatures together, whose portraits are then displayed on the walls of Home. Guests are invited to come in 2-D themed fancy dress, whether for the workshop or the evening party.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/sketchy-halloween-at-home-36540/", "official_url": "https://www.homedeptford.com/event-details/sketchy-halloween-at-home", "image": "https://noky.io/images/df7c98962928aed409fec42b2d6b81448ac0fc08e6983988a332a8d6be6390c8-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Halloween Mayhem!", "start": "2026-10-30T14:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Brent Museum", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.brent.gov.uk/parking-roads-and-travel/parking/parking-permits", "category": "kids-family", "tags": ["art/crafts", "occasion/halloween"], "description": "Halloween Mayhem! is a drop-in spooky arts and crafts session for children. It is run by Brent's libraries and takes place in a haunted library of horrors during the half-term holidays. It is suitable for ages 5-11, and visitors can just drop in if they dare.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/halloween-mayhem-78570/", "official_url": "https://www.brent.gov.uk/libraries-arts-and-heritage/libraries/library-events/halloween-mayhem-eal", "image": "https://noky.io/images/20c7108ad5028aff2bf9fdbc75d8461c620cad2f269665c74e4a97b03e710b0e-600.webp"}, {"title": "Storytelling Residency Day 2: Shadows & Secrets with Diana Olutunmogun", "start": "2026-10-31T11:00:00Z", "end": "2026-10-31T12:30:00Z", "place": "Valence House", "address": "Becontree Avenue, RM8 3HT Dagenham", "price": "FREE", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/spoken-word/storytelling", "history/local-history", "occasion/halloween"], "description": "A storytelling event for ages 5 and up, held in the historic Parlour of Valence House, with two immersive sessions of spooky tales and a hands-on craft workshop afterwards. Storyteller and heritage artist Diana Olutunmogun leads her final residency day, closing a month-long exploration of Villainy, the Other, and the Unknown. Session one, Legends of the Shadows, shares ancient tales and mysterious lore, while session two, Tales from Beyond, brings forgotten stories and cultural myths to life, each followed by a messy craft session making a creepy souvenir to take home. Entry is first-come, first-served, children must be accompanied by an adult, and the spaces are wheelchair accessible.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/storytelling-residency-day-2-shadows-secrets-with-diana-olut-40056/", "official_url": "https://valencehousecollections.co.uk/events/storytelling-residency-day-2-shadows-secrets-with-diana-olutunmogun/", "image": ""}, {"title": "Halloween Train!", "start": "2026-10-26T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-10-31T00:00:00Z", "place": "London Museum of Water and Steam", "address": "Green Dragon Lane, TW8 0EN London", "price": "£1 per train ride per person on top of admission; free train ride in costume", "price_from": "12.00", "price_to": "12.00", "tickets_url": "https://lmws.digitickets.co.uk/search", "category": "kids-family", "tags": ["occasion/halloween"], "description": "Halloween Train is a family event at the London Museum of Water & Steam during October Half Term. Visitors can ride a decorated carriage pulled by the museum's steam locomotive around the site, make a paper pumpkin craft in the waterworks gallery, and follow a scavenger hunt to find Marina and Splash Cat in their Halloween costumes. It is designed for children and families, with no scare actors or spooky decorations. Anyone wearing a costume gets a free train ride.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/halloween-train-37073/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e86501a53cef4c79823106ea3a8a5c3eea32e52f1bdc9ccc8ab8a1591ed13f6b-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Halloween Spooky Walks 2026", "start": "2026-10-31T17:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Lauderdale House", "address": "", "price": "Standard £12.50; Concession £9; £1 booking fee on all tickets", "price_from": "12.50", "price_to": "12.50", "tickets_url": "https://lauderdalehouse.ticketsolve.com/shows/873689468/events/129716799", "category": "kids-family", "tags": ["occasion/halloween", "stage"], "description": "An immersive Halloween theatrical walk for families through Lauderdale House and Waterlow Park after dark, with live performers, mysterious encounters and a mission to save everyone from an evil Halloween fairy. The Lauderdale House team and volunteers design and build every costume, prop and character, with performances by over 20 professional actors. Starting inside the house, each roughly 45-50 minute adventure is led by a Halloween guide through the park, ending back at the house with a song and treats, and is best enjoyed by children around 5 to 9 years old, all accompanied by an adult.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/halloween-spooky-walks-2026-36947/", "official_url": "https://www.lauderdalehouse.org.uk/whats-on/halloween-spooky-walks-26", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6567d4f0f749f0948f499ff8d5db2e4d73b0320e6ac0b04907ca1a35c31adb99-600.webp"}, {"title": "Halloween fun for the whole family", "start": "2026-10-31T10:00:00Z", "end": "2026-10-31T18:00:00Z", "place": "Vintners Lanes", "address": "Greenwich High Road 161, SE10 8JA London", "price": "The treat is on us!", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://secure.meriq.com/vintnerslanes/", "category": "kids-family", "tags": ["occasion/halloween", "sport/bowling"], "description": "A family day of Halloween bowling with a spooky twist, where every child who bowls in fancy dress gets a free ice cream. Vintners Lanes, a venue with boutique lanes inside a former Victorian brewery in Vintners Yard, invites families to play, with bumpers and ramps for smaller bowlers, a children's menu and pizzas and burgers for grown-ups. Walk-ins are welcome, or lanes can be booked ahead; under 18s must be accompanied by an adult, and the free ice cream comes with a paid bowling game per child in fancy dress.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/halloween-fun-for-the-whole-family-49698/", "official_url": "https://vintnerslanes.co.uk/events/halloween-fun-for-the-whole-family/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/887d9217a60499b80dd7e34b8a64ba2c27687fc73d08f6f2ba683a0fba1db5f5-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Halloween Family Fun Day", "start": "2026-11-01T12:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-01T17:00:00Z", "place": "WeBrew", "address": "Ram Passage 5", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://webrew.co.uk/shop", "category": "kids-family", "tags": ["occasion/halloween"], "description": "Halloween Family Fun Day is a family day of Halloween fun at the brewery, with magical storytelling, spooky surprises, music and mischief for witches, wizards, little monsters and grown-ups alike. It is hosted by Once Upon a Bus, which rolls into the Windsor & Eton Brewery as part of its Big Brewery Spooky Weekender. Visitors are invited to come along in their best Halloween fancy dress for a magical Halloween adventure with a spooky twist, with family fun for all ages.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/halloween-family-fun-day-40235/", "official_url": "https://webrew.co.uk/event/halloween-family-fun-day/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/66b8587c73674ff7a3b40a4c749f3db6340c13e597880fda7c0a61735ee594ba-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Murder Mystery Halloween Edition", "start": "2026-10-31T19:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Old Royal Naval College Visitor Centre", "address": "King William Walk", "price": "£30 (Adults), £27 (Concession)", "price_from": "30.00", "price_to": "30.00", "tickets_url": "https://ornc.digitickets.co.uk/category/61042", "category": "quiz-games", "tags": ["occasion/halloween"], "description": "A Halloween murder mystery experience set in the historic Admiral's House, where teams of detectives explore the building at night to solve a séance that ended in a death. The Old Royal Naval College invites players to hunt for clues and interrogate suspects such as a medium, a widow, a clergyman, a clerk and the Admiral, with 90 minutes to crack the case. The story follows Detective Inspector Josiah Marsh, who arrives expecting to expose a fraudulent medium and finds a murder instead. Recommended for ages 16 and above.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/murder-mystery-halloween-edition-37527/", "official_url": "https://ornc.org/whats-on/murder-mystery-halloween-edition/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/01abd341a6092ad6eb4436fc4633a8d2eca4599803b8d4797129d7b898e0936b-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Cut A Shine Halloween Family Barn Dance + MiniFolk", "start": "2026-10-31T13:00:00Z", "end": "2026-10-31T16:00:00Z", "place": "The Round Chapel", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": "7.00", "price_to": "7.00", "tickets_url": "https://dice.fm/partner/tickets/event/bbg38g-halloween-family-barn-dance-minifolk-31st-oct-the-round-chapel-london-tickets?dice_id=10466605&dice_channel=web&dice_tags=organic&dice_campaign=Fire+in+the+Mountain+Festival+LTD&dice_feature=mio_marketing&_branch_match_id=1482297980755231961&_branch_referrer=H4sIAAAAAAAAA8soKSkottLXz8nMy9ZLyUxO1UvL1Xc3TjJOS0q2tDA1NbavK0pNSy0qysxLj08qyi8vTi2ydc4oys9NBQDBvriTOwAAAA%3D%3D", "category": "dance", "tags": ["dance/folk-dance", "occasion/halloween"], "description": "A Halloween family barn dance with two easy dance sessions for all ages, from really small children to bigger kids. Cut A Shine team up with their friends at MiniFolk to put on the event. MiniFolk also arrange extra activities, including a Halloween-themed autumn arts and crafts table with pumpkins, leaves and seasonal creatures to cut, stick and colour, plus Vivi the Bubble Fairy and Halloween face painting.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/cut-a-shine-halloween-family-barn-dance-minifolk-65870/", "official_url": "https://www.roundchapel.org/listings/2026/10/31/cut-a-shine-barn-dance-halloween/mini-folk/family-dance/round-chapel", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e5b67f681a29f032fd9929fa060cd56583ed55ab2cb2737e3535c0231c474be5-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Family Halloween trail: Origins and Legends of Halloween", "start": "2026-10-24T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-01T00:00:00Z", "place": "Osterley House", "address": "Jersey Road, TW7 4RB Isleworth", "price": "Free event (normal admission charges for the venue apply)", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "tours", "tags": ["occasion/halloween"], "description": "A family Halloween trail in the gardens with fun activity points about where Halloween began, how pumpkin carving started and why witches are seen as scary. It is put on by the National Trust at Osterley Park and House in Isleworth and runs daily from 24 October to 1 November, from 10am to 4pm. No booking is needed; the event is free but normal admission charges for the venue apply.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/family-halloween-trail-origins-and-legends-of-halloween-63700/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/99e741e00595ed5791c21ad40d527a15586095b3a06c7a56cb740984a3edd970-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Halloween Hunt", "start": "2026-10-28T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-10-31T00:00:00Z", "place": "Peckham Arches", "address": "SE15 4QN London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://peckhamarches.com/bookings", "category": "party-club", "tags": ["occasion/halloween"], "description": "Halloween Hunt is a hunt at Peckham Arches where guests search for hidden mystery bags around the venue and claim a treat at the bar. It takes place at Peckham Arches, a covered, heated garden in London that hosts regular DJs, live music, and community-focused makers markets. The venue runs this hunt as part of its Halloween-season programme alongside DJ nights. The sources do not name an individual or organisation behind the event beyond the venue itself.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/halloween-hunt-37715/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4c4743e10b15f2d8fdad92daa0bc52ce8241fba9499454c787d0e9176833a673-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Kids' Cinema Halloween Party", "start": "2026-10-31T13:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Heathcote & Star", "address": "Grove Green Road 344, E11 4EA London", "price": "£6", "price_from": "6.00", "price_to": "6.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.designmynight.com/london/pubs/leyton/the-heathcote-and-star/the-heathcote-star-kids-halloween-party-3?t=tickets", "category": "kids-family", "tags": ["occasion/halloween"], "description": "A Halloween party for children at the Heathcote & Star, held as a warmup before trick-or-treating. The afternoon offers a goodie bag with treats, drinks and snacks, and a fancy dress contest with prizes for the best costumes. Tickets are needed for children only, while parents enter free, and the number of spots is limited.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/kids-cinema-halloween-party-45924/", "official_url": "https://heathcoteandstar.co.uk/whats-on/kids-cinema-halloween-party/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/af4b17577001f26544a776daa937ad07b904eef1d23830041d8d356b657bc895-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Mini-Mondays – Stories & Rhymes for Under 5s", "start": "2026-11-09T10:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-09T11:15:00Z", "place": "Valentines Mansion", "address": "", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "kids-family", "tags": ["literature/childrens-books"], "description": "Mini-Mondays – Stories & Rhymes for Under 5s is a drop-in session of books and rhymes for children under 5. It is run by Valentines Mansion and features their brilliant characters in costume. There is no need to book, just drop in.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/mini-mondays-stories-rhymes-for-under-5s-79126/", "official_url": "https://valentinesmansion.com/events/mini-mondays-stories-rhymes-for-under-5s/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f5db322d0a6ffe45e83736dff4f2199671ea6c4b2d5c0f85dd6b04a5093acb0b-2000.webp"}]}