The Africa Rally :: fighting to make the world less boring

Meet fellow adventurists from far and wide, hear a talk by an exciting adventurer and enjoy some afternoon tea.

Art Yarn aim to use traditional knitting and crochet techniques in contemporary visual arts projects. Good site to find out about UK-based yarn bombing

A Birmingham based network for playing and making games, from small indoor types to large outdoor pervasive games

An awesome Canadian website that hopes to foster a community of people excited to go out and be creative. Check out their Where the Wild Things Are fort building contest.

BEV is a Bristol based networking group and a searchable hub connecting volunteers with event organisers to make both finding volunteers and volunteering easy.

Full of information about anything swing dance related in Bristol and the surrounding area.

Information and education centre, offering advice and demonstrations of environmentally friendly and energy efficient living.

Cloth Magazine is packed with inspiring and practical projects to help you make and customise clothes and homeware, as well as insider knowledge on where to find the best vintage shops, clubs, classes and events.

The Come Out and Play Festival is a New York street games festival dedicated to exploring new style of games and play.

Creating a better world – one couch at a time. CouchSurfing isn’t just about finding free accommodation around the world – it’s about meeting people and participating in making the world a better place.

A portal to all things green and environmental in Bristol, including news, jobs and events.

Connecting the expedition and adventure community.

Wild food foraging, cooking and feasting courses and events in West Cornwall

Immersive games and exciting experiences in London

Home of the silent disco, Last for the Boat Race Flash Mob and the No Pants Party.

A monthly folk music and storytelling night in Bristol. Full of words, music and tea and biscuits.

Make someone’s day and give them a hug. Find out about events and different hugging techniques

The world’s fastest growing alternative economy. A massive online community where you can share skills, tools and spaces.

Give away some of your unwanted clutter, and find stuff you want amongst the things that other people are throwing out.

Putting the Fun into Fungi, this website will tell you everything you ever wanted to know about mushrooms, including regular foraging events

Learn tree climbing in a secret rural location in the Isle of Wight. You can even sleep in a hammock in the canopy.

Home to the World Mountain Bike Bog Snorkelling Championships, Man vs Horse Race and Mountain Bike Chariot Racing. All from one tiny village in mid Wales.

A source of inspiration for guerrilla gardeners who like to cultivate disused spaces.

The Happiness Project is a series of fun art workshops that advocate positive psychology in order to promote happiness and well being and tackle some of the stigma associated with mental health.

A friendly farm and environmental visitors centre in the heart of Sheffield.

An annual pervasive gaming festival in London that will have you pounding the streets of the capitcal to escape werewolves and building giant board games with strangers.

Based in Tokyo, Hoop Lovers offer hoop dance classes and workshops – a creative collage of fitness, self-expression, laughter and dance.

Bristol’s pervasive gaming festival, bringing street games, outdoor spectacles and newfangled social interaction to the masses, whilest reclaiming public urban spaces for play and adventure.

Iglab is a monthly playtesting night where street games get born and played before they are ready to meet the world.

Cap’n Slappy and crew give expert advice on how to talk like a pirate as well as an advice column, pirate personality quiz and pirate name generator. Aaarrrrrr…

From Art Cars to Zombie Walks, Portland is a fantastically unique place. Keep Portland Weird wants to keep it that way by promoting pub crawls, pillow fights and shopping cart sled races.

Operating from a secret underground wool-lined bunker in the heart of the busy metropolis, these London-based yarn bombers operate under assumed names by day and spread woolly joy under the cover of darkness

Wrapping the world in fuzzy yarn….one stop sign pole at a time.

A source of good urban fun, including pillowfights, capture the flag and sock wrestling…

Bristol-based artist and finder of awesome and randomly wonderful things

A series of festivals throughout the year, dedicated to sourcing, cooking and appreciating all things food related.

A non profit organisation that aims to help people to reduce their impact on the planet, gain new skills and have fun in the process.

Lower Shaw Farm offers weekend breaks, events and courses for adults and families.

An invaluable source of information for pervasive gaming enthusiasts, including events, forums and a great directory of games

Hide and seek for grown ups, played out on the streets of London.

Covering everything from bushcraft techniques to poisonous plants, this is a great resource for budding foragers.

A paper toy network! A place where you can show off your paper toy creations, collaborate with other artists and share thoughts and ideas.

A noticeboard for fun events and courses across the UK

Experience the wonder of outdoor swimming and explore drowned cities, kelp jungles and sea caves. The OSS organises social swims, full moon swims as well as a directory of events.

Pac-Manhattan is a large-scale urban game that utilizes the New York City grid to recreate the 1980s video game sensation Pac-Man.

A shop that’s all about making and creating. From beat boxing to kite making, stencil cutting to origami.

Bring your own damn pillow…

A Liverpool based organisation that celebrates the origins of the city through urban picnics, walks and processions. They help regenerate neglected spaces and believe that creative fun and laugher helps solve problems.

In the Alaskan Iditarod, more than sixty dog sled teams race across the frozen tundra from Anchorage to Nome. In this urban version, teams of ‘dogs’ lead by a musher will pull their sleds (shopping carts) through some of Portland’s most scenic areas.

Buy a second hand t-shirt with a history and give it a future.

Whip out your spandex and leg warmers for one of the most friendly and fun-packed nights in London. With its musically and visually kitsch-cool atmosphere and retro appeal, Roller Disco is THE hotspot for clubbing on wheels.

A monthly scrabble night at The Chapter Arts Centre in Cardiff the first Sunday of every month. It’s free. It’s full of nice people. It has bloody lovely cake.

The urban guide to being self sufficient’ish

“Its all in the wrist!” – and you know it! Brightons stone skimming championships.

StreetWars is a 3 week long, 24/7, watergun assassination tournament that has already taken place in New York City, Vancouver, Vienna, San Francisco, Los Angeles, London, Chicago, and Paris.

A ‘Haven for the Handmade’, StuffedNonsense are putting a little bit of handcrafted fun back into the high street

Imagine walking through a film, but it’s happening on the streets you live in…

The Art of Swishing involves getting your friends together to swap gorgeous clothes and party at the same time.

A group of Canadian yarn bombers who installed tree cozies in downtown Vancouver.

Fighting to make the world less boring, these guys invented the Rickshaw Run, Mongol Derby, Africa Rally, Mototaki Junket and Mongol Derby.

A social networking site for people who love water from surfers to rockpoolers, the Blue Gym showcases to encourages activities and usage of the coastline and inland waters.

The Junket Club presents brilliant comedy in interesting places. Adventures so full of mirth that minds will be (metaphorically) blown. It’s basically a blast. Better than free wi-fi

A classic American 50s diner and bowling alley with a karaoke booth in for good measure.

Enjoy tree camping in Cornwall, sleeping in hammocks (or tree boats) and eating breakfast in the canopy.

The longest and toughest horse race in the world follows Chinngis Khaans legendary postal system across the Mongolian Steppe.

This adventure takes you 10,000 miles from Europe to Mongolia via a plethora of countries most people havent heard of in a car that has an engine with no bigger than 1 litre.

Take the smallest and least practical vehicle available in an entire continent and throw it at some of the most ridiculous and least hospitable terrain on our good earth.

Tropical stupidity in slightly powered tin cans. This ultimate road trip across the Indian Subcontinent in 150cc rickshaws now happens thrice yearly.

The Sandpit is Hide&Seeks regular evening of social games and playful experiences. It takes place in galleries and railway tunnels, in cinemas and mixed arts venues, in parks and public squares. It is a testing ground for new games (over fifty within

A social enterprise based in Orkney, which is all about having fun and enjoying saving the planet.

Urban golf on the streets of San Fransico. Unlawful and visually violent golf outfits are encouraged.

Lists all the wackiest events around the world from the mobile phone throwing championships to the Great Knaresborough Bed Race. All publishes a blimin’ good book on the subject.

Stone skimming championships in Castle Pond, Pembroke.

Your ultimate companion to Britain’s best plunge pools, waterfalls, rivers, coves, caves and beaches.

A regular scrabble and board games club in Bristol.

The World Stone Skimming Championships attracts over 200 participants and is held on Easdale Island, the smallest permanently inhabited island of the Inner Hebrides.

The Birdman is a flight competition for human powered flying machines held each summer in the picturesque seaside town of Worthing. (Photo by Lee Taylor)

A chance to volunteer on an organic farm in return for food, accommodation and an opportunity to learn about organic agriculture.

Improving the urban landscape one stitch at a time. Creative folk who take part in knitting graffiti projects around the world.