Updates

Links to announcements and update on commemoration plans for VE and VJ Day 80

Children's bunting competition

10 Downing Street Bunting Competition

8 April, 20258 April, 2025

An exciting opportunity for your designs and artwork to be featured in 10 Downing Street.

VE VJ Day 80 branded image

Stars of stage and screen will perform for VE Day 80 anniversary

8 April, 2025

Julian Glover, Siân Phillips, and Joseph Mydell will appear in the National Theatre’s ‘The Next Morning’ to mark VE Day 80

Lisa Nandy at National Theatre

National Theatre film and Imperial War Museums bring Second World War stories to a new generation as part of VE Day 80 plans

12 March, 202512 March, 2025

The Department for Culture, Media and Sport has announced a programme of activity to mark the 80th anniversary of VE Day. In addition to four days of events and celebrations to commemorate the end of the Second World War in Europe, additional activities will include a new film from the National Theatre, a national call out for the public to look for letters written during the war, an immersive AR experience and resources for every school in the country.

Cenotaph draped in Union Flags, Westminster Abbey service, Flypast and concert among plans unveiled to mark VE Day 80

4 March, 20254 March, 2025

The 80th anniversaries of VE and VJ Day will be marked this year with a series of events and celebrations that will share stories of the Second World War generation.

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