Festival Day Fun
Sunday June 26th, we were up and running for a 10:30 start. See ‘List of Traders’ page to find more about the stalls and visit their websites to learn more.
Street Entertinment outside B&M Bargins
Schools Choir, were singing beautifully
Lovely music was provided by The Woodlanders country dance band at varoius times throughout the day. Visit their website at
It was great to see so many people trying their hand at the Circus Skills Workshops
Roaming entertainment
Magic in the streets with Nick Barnes
Our ever popular Unicycling Chef found it hard at times to find a space to cycle!
All our stalls were busy selling their goods. Many had taster samples and others had full meals on offer. This year we provided more seating areas as people in previous years were perched everywhere tucking into the culinary delights of local produce as well as savouries from all over the globe.
We estimated about 10,000 visitors to Congleton on Festival day and our aim was to make it a fun day for all the family. We’re sure that we exceeded that figure and with free admission to the Town Hall Kids Foody Zone certainly was fun for all the family, with lots of schools’ stalls providing the fun. There was food making and decoration, a fabulous Food art workshop with Olga Whitmore, Whiz Kids, Champagne Dreams and many more arty activities.
The Community Garden was delightful green space to rest your feet and pass the time away as the children found entertainment with many activities like the Mbollou Drummers, many people just listened, some joined in with the music making.
Love Food Hate Waste had a stall with all sorts of advice on cutting food waste and tips on saving money on your food bill. (Except when at a Food Festival of course).
The Congleton Abundant Local Food Campaign is a very exciting and innovative initiative in the town and to find out more about it check the Grow, Cook, Eat, Enjoy page.
Daphne Youles had a stall with delightful homemade biscuits, and Congleton rhubarb chutney jam, and apple juice in the Community Garden.
Snack the healthy way with ‘Appleslinky UK’
Mr Fzzix was out and about surprising you with some scientific entertainment.
Splat! delivered activities for young people: Painting pots, seeding and designing cress heads and handing out sun flowers growing pots.
BBQ: the theme was locally sourced produce – vegetarian skewers, salad and corn on the cob also including local apple juice tasters
