About Little Jaunts

Little Jaunts is a free guide to family days out around Nottingham and Beeston: what's on in the next two weeks, family films with real showtimes, and favourite places you can visit on most days.

As parents, keeping up with local events meant juggling council calendars, venue websites, cinema listings and social media, often finding the perfect event the day after. So we put it all in one place: your next little jaunt in minutes, not an evening of searching.

Spotted a mistake, or want your event listed? Email the address on our submit page or use the submit form.

How we check listings

Every listing links to the venue's or organiser's own page and shows when it was last checked.
We never make up events, dates, times, prices or age ranges. If a venue doesn't say, we show "see venue page".
Some listings are read automatically from venues' pages twice a week, marked "read automatically", and only kept if the details are there.
Finished events disappear by themselves.

Please check with the venue before you travel. Their own information is always the final word.

Sensory information

From the venue: what the venue itself publishes, such as relaxed performances, autism-friendly screenings, quiet hours, ear defenders or quiet rooms, linked to where it says so.
Our estimate: our own low, medium or high rating for noise, crowds, lighting and queuing, plus indoors or outdoors and whether you can leave and come back. A general guide, not medical advice; a busy day can be very different.

Drive times

Approximate times from the centre of your postcode area to each venue, without traffic, plus a little extra. Where we don't have a routed time yet we show a rough estimate and say so. Up to 45 minutes we show everything; from 45 to 60 minutes, only bigger days out.

Featured listings and links

To keep the site free we may include clearly labelled "Featured (paid)" listings and booking links that pay us a small commission. They never change what we write about a place.