15 Expressions of Interest (EOI) were entered in January 2026 by the JMO on behalf of our memberships:
- Appalachian Step Dancing;
- Border Morris Dancing;
- Clog Step Dancing;
- Cotswold Morris Dancing;
- English Country Dancing;
- Fools and Beasts;
- Longsword Dancing;
- Maypole Dancing;
- Molly Dancing;
- Mumming and Guising Plays;
- North West Morris Dancing;
- Plough Morris Dancing;
- Rapper Sword Dancing;
- Stave Dancing;
- Step Dancing.
To see the full text of the EOIs, see: https://www.morrisfed.org.uk/resources/unesco-living-heritage-eoi/
Queries? Any queries, please contact the JMO Living Heritage team at Contact Us (and use the dropdown for ‘Living Heritage’).
Next Steps
The next steps for the JMO are to draft the fuller submissions, and gain Community Consent from our membership. The deadline for submissions for this first round is 27th March. Note that this is only the initial window for submissions – further windows for submissions will be open in the future. See: https://www.morrisfed.org.uk/resources/unesco-living-heritage-submissions/
(*) JMO = Joint Morris Organisations
Here is the full list of Expressions of Interest (EOIs) entered to the UK inventory from everywhere: https://livingheritage.unesco.org.uk/get-involved/elements. Where there are duplicates, the DCMS will bring contacts together to make a single ‘submission’.
Following the UK’s ratification of the 2003 UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage in 2024, communities across the UK have been invited to submit their living heritage to the new inventory. You can find out more information on the website: https://livingheritage.unesco.org.uk/
