Birmingham Fungi Festival

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Birmingham Fungi Festival

Sunday 26th October 2025, Eastside City Park

Join us on Sunday 26th October for the Birmingham Fungi Festival

Join us to go mad for mushrooms and get fascinated by fungi! Taking place from 11.00am at Eastside City Park, Birmingham city centre, there will be much for everyone to enjoy throughout the day and everything is free to attend! At the Wildlife Trust gazebos you'll find plenty of fascinating fungi activities throughout the day, whilst we will also have special limited-number events including a fungi foray and talk from Lukas Large of the West Midlands Fungus Group, fungi felt-making workshops and fungi-focused poetry workshops.

Find details of all the events below and we look forward to seeing you there!

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All Day Events

Taking place from 11.00am - 15.00pm at Eastside City Park, Birmingham city centre, join us at the Wildlife Trust gazebos for fascinating fungi activities including:

  • family-friendly fungi forays (taking place at 11.30am, 12.30pm and 13.30pm)
  • a children's play space
  • mushroom print-making with local artist, Laura Onions,
  • mushroom origami
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Get a free fungi guide and t-shirt

Join us as a member this October from as little as £3.50p/m to receive a FREE fungi guide AND Mushroom Spotter t-shirt (plus all the usual perks of membership)! Your t-shirt is the height of fungi fashion, available in a range of sizes for men, women and children, and our guide will introduce you to 200 species of mushroom!

 Alongside our members, we've been working for nature's recovery for more than 40 years. Together we can create a wilder future!

Find out more

All Birmingham Fungi Festival events are free to attend and take place as part of our Championing Nature programme of events.

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