24 Doors : Leek’s Live Advent Calendar – 1-24 Dec

Experience the magic of 24 Doors

Leek's exciting community Christmas tradition is back!

1st - 24th December 2024, at various venues across Leek

Community groups, schools, artists, organisations and businesses are once again co-creating a Live Advent Calendar in Leek, and everyone is invited to be part of this special event. Join us and fill your December with joy and wonder!

Every morning in December on the run up to Christmas Day, we’ll reveal the door and its location on the online calendar here and on Facebook and Instagram. If you can find the real door in the town, and open it between 4pm and 6.30pm*, you will be treated to a surprising festive moment!

Singers and storytellers, dancers and drummers, theatrical experiences and twinkly light trails, who knows what magic you might find…

If you can’t make it along in person each day, there’s a digital version of the calendar where you can find out what’s behind each door.

Let’s make this December truly magical in Leek!

Find 24 Doors every day across Leek and online here. 

1st December to 23rd December 2024

4pm-6.30pm each day

*4pm-7pm on 10th December

*4pm-5pm on 24th December for carols at Leek Town FC

Across various locations in Leek 

Free, no entry fees for any of the 24 Door experiences, donations welcome

Access information for the doors is here

TAKE PART: ONLINE ADVENT CALENDAR

TAKE PART – ONLINE CALENDAR HERE

Community Carols on Christmas Eve

24 Doors culminates on Christmas Eve 4pm-5pm at Leek Town Football Club with The Big Community Carol Sing. Come and join in!

The finale will be Leek-based musician and composer Cat McGill’s Staffordshire Moorlands carol ‘On Christmas Night’ that was written specially for the 2023 event. Information, lyrics and music for all the carols are here.

With thanks to…

2nd Leek Scouts, 5th Leek St Mary’s Scout Band, Aimee’s Travel, Borderland Voices, Buxton & Leek College, Cat McGill, Churnet Valley Garden Furniture, Chris Thompson, Craig Bode, Creeping Toad, Dan Hollingshurst, Daniella Beattie, Delia Cliffe, Den Engel, Denise Leigh, Duck Feathers, Duncan Rist, Eleanor Hooper, Film Hub Midlands, Foxlowe Arts Centre, Greenwood Growth CIC, HappyFace Events, James Brunt, Jess Arrowsmith, John Hall Wellness Gardens, Kyle Lamley, Leanne Cunningham, Leek Building Society, Leek Hockey Club, Leek Library, Leek Morris, Leek Theatre Company, Leek Town Football Club, Leek U3A Drummers, Leek WOW Hub, Lizzie Spear, Louise Kelly, Madula Drums, Marilla Holmes, Mel Biggs, Mind, MyCharleston, Nature in Your Neighbourhood, New Vic Borderlines, Paul Deakin, Paul Hill, Rethink, Scabetti, So Marketing, Spice Merchant, St Edward’s Church, St Mary’s Catholic School, Staffordshire Moorlands District Council, Staffordshire Wildlife Trust, Stefan Andrusyschyn, Stephen Dillon, Steph Lehrle/Sign4U, Steve Hodgskiss, Synchronicity Dance, Teresa Pattison, Textile Steering Group, The Circus Academy Leek, The Leek Polish Connection, The Silk House Hotel, The Watson Centre, Westwood College, Your Housing Group, Yugen Yoga, the 24 Doors staff and volunteer team, and all the visitors to each and every door.

Your Housing Group for supporting Door 17

Map illustration by Chris Thompson 

Illustrations of the doors on the online calendar ‘reveal’ webpages by Leanne Cunningham