Even our Dungeon Dwellers try to have a positive impact on our environment and local communities. Here are a collection of stories about what we get up to inside and outside of the York Dungeon. Read them, or ELSE.
- Friday 11th July 2025
York Dungeon Support York St John University Business Networking Pitch Event
It was a real honour for our General Manager Mark Mattinson to be invited along to his old haunt York St. John University by Dr Winojith Sanjeewa to represent the York Dungeon as one of a number of local businesses taking part in a brilliant day working with students from York College of Higher Education
- Monday 9th June 2025
York Dungeon SLAY at York PRIDE
You may have bumped into some of our rogues and rascals from the York Dungeon at York PRIDE recently; they will no doubt have been getting up to untold mischief while committing the crime of looking ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS!
- Friday 6th June 2025
June 2025 Riverside Clean
Thank you so much to our June 2025 Riverside Clean SUPERSTARS!
A team of 12 headed out on this drizzly morning to once again support the SEA LIFE TRUST and #WorldOceansDay (which is this Sunday, the 8th June), collecting litter from the banks and areas around the River Ouse and River Foss in the King's Staith, New Walk, Millennium Bridge, Terry Avenue and Skeldergate areas of York.
- Monday 2nd June 2025
Jester and Smedley Entertain at York RLFC Inclusion Day Fixtures
Thank you so much to the York RLFC Knights and Valkyries for inviting Jester and Smedley from the York Dungeon along for their double header fixture and Inclusion Day today!
- Wednesday 14th May 2025
Dick and Guy Set Sail on the Thames
It was a real honour and pleasure to be invited along to a brilliant showcase event on the River Thames, with a couple of our most infamous rogues in tow to re-tread some familiar ground too.
This was an excellent collaboration between Visit York and Visit Greenwich, 2 of the UK's finest heritage destinations, who have their hosts for the day, City Cruises as one of many common links.
- Friday 28th March 2025
March 2025 Riverside Clean
We hosted a very successful riverside "spring" clean this morning! You can see the before and after pictures of all of our amazing volunteers!
This was one of our most successful clean up mornings yet, with 72kg of rubbish collected!!! And what wonderful weather to share the morning with people from a number of outstanding York businesses.
- Thursday 19th December 2024
Christmas 2024: York Hospital Visit
The York Dungeon team managed to find some festive love and warmth in our cold dark hearts this morning, as we made a Magic On Tour visit to the children's ward at York District Hospital, thanks to the amazing support from the team at Merlin's Magic Wand.
- Friday 6th December 2024
Tourism Cultural Exchange Event - York and China
The York Dungeon team were delighted to be invited along to attend a Tourism Cultural Exchange Event that brilliantly organised by Will Zhuang, Jean Zhuang, their team, and Visit York to bring us all together with Hainan Airlines and MAG (Airports Group).
- Monday 11th November 2024
York Dungeon Characters Thrill Visitors to York BID Ghosts After Dark
Some of York Dungeon's most famous characters, Guy Fawkes, Dick Turpin and our Dungeon Jester have entertained visitors last week to the inaugural "Ghosts After Dark" event organised by the York BID!
- Friday 20th September 2024
Global Beach Clean 2024: York Dungeon September Riverside Clean
We didn't think that we would beat the 50kg of rubbish that we collected during our riverside clean event to mark World Ocean's Day back in June of 2024, but today we have completed our second riverside clean of the King's Staith and New Walk areas of the River Ouse and River Foss in York and have collected 110kg of rubbish!
