Colchester Food & Drink Festival

When: June 28th -29th 2025 11am-6pm both days

Where: Lower Castle Park, St Peters Street entrance (Ryegate) Colchester, C01 1HL.

Tickets: Adults £8.00, 5-16 year olds £3.00, under 5s FREE

Traders: £250 for 3×3 meters £25 per extra mtr (Electrics charge due to requirements quote at time of booking.)

Join us in Colchester’s beautiful Castle Park for another year of our Food & Drink Festival. There will be lots of old favourites and this year we have some new and exciting stalls and products to tempt you.

Featuring lots of different stalls with local and international food and drink. There will be so much to see and try.

Why not pick up food and drink to take home?

The Pikestaff Inn real ale bar will also feature lots of different ciders and good cold lager. You can take a four pint ‘growler’ of our wonderful ales to drink onsite or take home!

Dogs with responsible owners welcome.

Relax in the wonderful atmosphere of this much-loved festival. You can have a picnic, listen to the music. Stroll around the stalls trying some of the artisan produced local goodies.

FREE parking in Kings Meadow, for our customers makes, it the cheapest day out for all the family.

We strive to be disabled friendly and always welcome suggestions on how we can improve.

Maldon Food & Drink Festival

When: April 20th – 21st 2025

When: August 24th – 25th 2025

Where: Promenade Park, Park Dr, Maldon CM9 5JQ

Tickets: Adults £8.00, 5-16 year olds £3.00, under 5s FREE

Traders: £250 for 3×3 meters £25 per extra mtr (Electrics charge due to requirements quote at time of booking.)

After the success of last year’s events we are pleased to announce that we will be returning to Maldon Promenade Park for more family fun, with kids rides, music, street food and bars. The 2 day events will run over the Bank holiday weekends in April and August 2025

Click the link to book your tickets.

Colchester History Fayre

When: June 7th & 8th 2025

Where: Lower Castle Park, St Peters Street entrance (Ryegate) Colchester, C01 1HL.

Tickets: Adults £10.00, 5-16 year olds £5.00, under 5s FREE

Traders: £250 for 3×3 meters £25 per extra mtr (Electrics charge due to requirements quote at time of booking.)

A huge fun packed and educational event in Colchester’s Castle Park.

Re-enactors from the Viking, Roman and Medieval periods showing fighting skills, cookery and living history camps.

A grand Market with all kinds of treasures for you to browse.

One of Britain’s largest and most exciting longbow competitions.

Ale bars, hog roast, excellent food outlets. Join in the archery and axe throwing.

Story tellers, puppeteers, traders, musicians, hawkers, wonderful sights and sounds

Birds of prey swooping overhead.

Free dressing up and activities for children.

Free parking.

Best and most fantastic visitor costumes – win a prize

Dogs welcome