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AGM looks forward to 2023 Festival

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Beeston Festival held its Annual General Meeting (AGM) on 21 January, reflecting on another successful event in 2022 and looking ahead to 2023.
The Annual Report, which is available to read and download, details how the organising committee plan their work and reflected on the various attractions at the event including live animals, children’s activities, dance and music performances, stalls, food, sport and the fun fair.
The 51 volunteers (not including the committee) who put in 240 hours work on the day were thanked. The festival couldn’t happen without them.
The accounts show that the committee spent almost £30,000 staging the festival, but raised slightly more than that from grants, sponsorship, stall bookings and the fun fair. The surplus will go into the festival’s reserves to ensure that if costs rise and/or fundraising is less successful, the festival will still go on.
Councillors on the Inner South Community Committe, National Lottery Awards For All, White Rose Office Park, DePuy Synthes and Building Blocks nursery were all thanked for their generous support.
A new committee was elected with Cllr Annie Maloney and Shaf Choudhary joining replacing Lindsey Pearson and Hannah Ward who were thanked for their hard work. Angela Gabriel, Mark Day and Hannah Marshall we re-elected as Chair, Secretary and Treasurer respectively.
Angela Gabriel commented:
“2022 was a great success, but we can’t rest on our laurels and there is a lot of hard work to do to make sure this year’s festival is as good if not better. We are always looking for new volunteers to step forward and get involved, both organising in advance and working on the day. If you would like get involved, please email beestonfestival@gmail.com.”
Beeston Festival will take place on Saturday 24 June 2023, 12-5pm in Cross Flatts Park.
Stall bookings will open in late February, watch out for further details.

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2022 Programme published

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We’ve now published our full programme for this year’s festival.

The programme details all the fantastic attractions and activities taking place across the park from 12-5pm plus the film festival from 6:30-8:30pm:

  • Live music and dance across three stages
  • Food from around the world in the Food Court
  • A Bazaar of a hundred stalls
  • Children’s activities including inflatables, climbing wall, and craft tent
  • Sports activities in the multi-use games areas
  • Live animals including a farmyard, birds of prey, ferret races and donkey rides
  • And, of course, the fun fair

Copies will be distributed via schools as usual, there are also copies at libraries and community centres. Alternatively you can download a copy here:

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Book your stall for the 2022 Festival

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The 2022 Beeston Festival will take place on Saturday 25th June in Cross Flatts Park and we are now taking stall bookings.

The Bazaar is always a vibrant part of the festival site, with up to 100 stalls spread out along the paths at the top of the park. Once again we will be grouping the food stalls in a central Food Court.

If you or your organisation would like a stall make sure you place your booking in good time. We have a sliding scale of charges depending what type of organisation ytou are and what you are selling.

Your booking is for a 3m x 3m pitch in the Bazaar towards the top of the park. You can book chairs and tables through the festival at an additional charge, or you can bring tour own. We are NOT able to supply gazebos.

UPDATE: Bookings have now CLOSED.

You can read our full Terms & Conditions here

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2021 Programe published

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The programme for the 2021 Beeston Festival has been published with full details of everything you can expect to find on Saturday 18 September.

You can find who is performing at each of our three stages; what we are doing to be planet-friendly; and there’s a handy site map to help you find your way around Cross Flatts Park.

We have also included some details of how we plan to keep you all Covid safe. You will find QR codes at every entrance so that you can check in on the NHS app; there are extra hand washing stations on site and plenty of hand sanitiser. Remember, if you have any Covid symptoms, please dont come to the festival, but do get a test.

Programmes will be distributed to schools and Libraries on Monday 13 September and be available to pick up on the day from the Information tent.

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book your stall for 2021

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The 2021 Beeston Festival will take place on Saturday 18th September in Cross Flatts Park and we are now taking stall bookings.

The Bazaar is always a vibrant part of the festival site, with up to 100 stalls spread out along the paths at the top of the park. Once again we will be grouping the food stalls in a central Food Court.

Bookings are now closed for this year’s festival

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Beeston Festival moves back to September

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After our enforced absence last year due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Beeston Festival will be back this year.

The Committee decided to move the Festival from its usual date in June in case health restrictions had not been lifted in time. So this year, the Festival will take place on Saturday 18th September.

As usual the fun will take place in Cross Flatts Park starting at 12pm and will feature:

  • Live music
  • Dance
  • Children’s activities
  • Bazaar
  • Food Court
  • Fun Fair
  • Sports
  • Live animal displays

We will be announcing more details over the coming months.

Chair of the Beeston festival Committee, Cllr Angela Gabriel said:

It will be wonderful that we can get back to something like normal. We are really looking forward to hosting this wonderful event and plans are already underway to make it bigger and better than ever.”