Events fully booked within 6 minutes, others in 24 hours. Thousands of you coming to free events celebrating our local history and culture. Open Cambridge 2024 was quite a 10 days!
Open Cambridge 2024 was once again a stellar year. Reflect on the highlights by reading our evaluation report.
Check here to read our evaluation report in full. Here are just a few highlights:
- The Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory tour was fully booked within 7 minutes. The waiting list was halted at 250 people but would continue to grow. We ended up putting on a second tour for those on the waiting list which was fully booked within 6 minutes of being released.
- There were over 900 bookings on the first day and over 43,000 views of the website on the first day with over 5,000 unique users.
- 14 of the events we were taking bookings for were fully booked within 24 hours.
- 93% of people thought the event they attended exceeded or met their expectations and 97% of people would recommend an Open Cambridge event to a friend.
- New partnerships with Cambridge United Football Club and Cambridge Access Surgery established with a focus on building these for the future.
- Over 11,000 of you came out across the 10 days to attend an Open Cambridge event.
Open Cambridge does not happen without all our coordinators and visitors, so thank you for making Open Cambridge 2024 one to remember!
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