Events, Festivals and Exhibitions
Welcome to the world’s largest celebration of storytelling, rooted in Scotland, a nation with a rich tradition of oral storytelling. The Scottish International Storytelling Festival (SISF) provides a platform for
The Arran festival of Food and Drink will be held at various locations on the Isle of Arran, Scotland from 23 October to 2 November. Catering to both locals and
Whitby is set to welcome a wave of literary talent this autumn as it launches its first Whitby Lit Fest, running from 19 - 22 November 2026 across the historic
It's fair to say that no other nation celebrates the coming New Year quite as much as the Scots. So, if you are looking to see in 2027, there is no better place to start than the Edinburgh Hogmanay
Held in January, along with Hogmanay and St Andrew's Day, Burns Night is the leading festival in Scotland. However, Burns Night is more widely celebrated across the country than the
If you want to see a horde of Vikings parading through the streets, before burning a galley boat and then making merry for 12 hours, Up Helly Aa is the festival for you...
While people around the UK are celebrating the approach of Lent by tossing pancakes in the warmth of their own kitchen, the gentlefolk of one Buckinghamshire town take to the
We’ve all heard of St Patrick’s Day, but how many of you know of St David’s Day? The much neglected patron saint of the principality of Wales is celebrated on 1 March each year...
If you are a fan of cress then Hampshire is the place to head for this May. Held on 16 May, the 2025 Alresford Watercress Festival will see fifteen thousand
Held in the village of Brockworth in Gloucestershire, the Cooper's Hill Cheese Rolling and Wake is normally held on the Spring Bank Holiday Monday each year. What started off as
The August Bank Holiday weekend can really only mean one thing in London - the Notting Hill Carnival. The largest free street festival in Europe runs from the Saturday to Monday of the long weekend
Bury St Edmunds’ food festival is returning to the medieval Suffolk market town in August. The Bury St Edmunds Food & Drink Festival 2024 will be held over the August Bank Holiday weekend.
One of the longest surviving medieval rituals in England, the Abbots Bromley Horn Dance has been performed in a village in Staffordshire since 1226. Horn Dance Ritual The folk dance
Now a veteran of the UK food festival circuit, the first Ludlow Food Festival was held in 1995 when members of the local Chamber of Trade and Commerce decided a food festival would be a
Few of the many festivals in the UK are steeped in a history as long as the Dunmow Flitch Trials. Held every leap year, in Great Dunmow Essex, the trials are valid for any married couple
