Cromer Crab & Lobster Festival

13/10/2026

Committee Secretary Required!! 🫵 we'd love to hear from you, if you could spare a few hours a month, to support our community festival as our NEW Secretary.

If you'd like anymore information please feel free to contact us via our website -
Cromercrabandlobsterfestival.co.uk or

Please reach out & send your details via email to - [email protected]

Also, we always welcome NEW volunteers to help support with the day to day running of our festival weekend & our auction day, we'd love to hear from you 😀 ❤️

08/10/2026

Don't forget there's still time yo get your community grant application in.

Looking to enhance your Cromer community group, looking to start something new then let us support you.

10/09/2026

Wow the final total is in for this years Surf Board Auction, held on August Bank Holiday Sunday. ☀️

We raised an amazing £9,837, with boards selling from £20 through to an amazing £1400. All looked brilliant 👏

This has been our most successful year, with these monies not only helping us to support the increased yearly running costs, enabling us to continue to operate, but more importantly it allows us to offer over £4000 in local Cromer charity grants.

We'd like to take this time to thank all of our wonderful volunteers, their friends & family for pitching in. Its been a busy this year. Some of our comittee are often hidden behind the scenes, aswell as wearing seen modelling their blue highviz vests, without their hardwork the Cromer Crab & Lobster Festival 🦀 🦞 could run 😍

Thank you to all the local businesses that helped by supporting this years festival, from those that advertised within our art trail booklet to those who purchased & decorated this years surf boards.

Without your continued support our community festival wouldn't be the success it is today ❤️ and we hope that you'll continue to help make 2027 as special! (Watch this space for 2027 details) 🤔

A big shout to all our wonderful visitors & to those who bid on this years boards 😀 🙏 there we're some amazing works of art 🎨

A sincere & heartfelt huge thank you from all the Crab & Lobster Team.

For any local community group, charitable organisation or community project wishing to apply for this years grants, please see the attached images or visit our website
www.cromercrabandlobsterfestival.co.uk or alternatively contact - [email protected] for further details.

30/08/2026

Check out this years art trail decorated surf boards .... which one or ones are you taking home this year?? 🤔 🦀 🦞

Well done to this years 2 winners 🏆 👏
Runton Parish Council & Rocky Bottoms

Thank you to all the businesses for your support & wonderful boards, we love them all 🦀 ❤️

30/08/2026

Yippee its not raining!! & the suns out ☀️We're all set up & ready to welcome you to this years auction day of stunning decorated surf boards.

With lots more going on today too -

World Pier Crabbing - located midway down the pier on the left, register with Lou & Rachel 🦀 🦞 happening NOW!!

If you'd like to bid to purchase your favourite board, 🏄‍♂️ pop along & register with Val & Nigel, they can be found sat on the pier forecourt. Auction starts at 12.30 with John our auctioneer dropping the hammer on bidding.

🦀 Please note you have to be there to bid, no phone of online bids taken 🦀

We've also lots of amazing stalls set up along the promenade, please do pop along & say hello 👋

Thank you to all our hardworking volunteers, they all been setting up since 7am this morning, I'm sure they'd love to say hello & tell you all about next years Art Trail Theme.

29/08/2026

Tomorrow's the day!! 🦀 🦞 for this years Surf Board Art Trail Auction.

Fingers crossed the weather is kind & on our side ☀️
We've also a mixture of craft stalls, World Pier 🌎 crabbing competition & the Old Wild Rovers Shanty band to enjoy.

Over the past 5 months local businesses have been displaying their wonderful works of art. With a mixture having been decorated by staff members or local artists, this years look stunning, with many being 😍 favourites.

We have loved seeing visitors wonder around Cromer & enjoy this years art trail.

If you didn't manage to spot you're favourite, then pop down tomorrow to the pier forecourt where you'll be able to enjoy all 62 of this years fantastic surfboards.🎊 🙏 🎉

26/08/2026

Lets have a look back at last years Cromer Crab & Lobster Festival 🦞 🦀

Please click on the link below, pictures kindly taken by one of our biggest supporters Alan Raymond Palmer

We hope to see you all this Sunday at the pier forecourt.

Sunday 31st August 2025.A perfect day in a wonderful part of the world.

26/08/2026

The votes are now in for this years favourite surfboard boards!! With the last few businesses returning their board's this evening, In preparation for Sundays Auction 😀 & family fun day at the pier forecourt.

We wanted to continue to celebrate some more special businesses & thank them for their continued support for our community festival.

Cromer Pier celebrating 125 years this year. This iconic building is the perfect backdrop for this Sundays celebrations 🍾 & wow if you haven't been to this years summer, book your tickets NOW!

Buttercups tearoom for their sponsorship towards this years art trail leaflets & their amazing surfboard 👍 plus their EPIC cheese scones! (other cheese scones are available in Cromer) 🥰

Thistle & Tide this beautiful independent giftshop on Cromer highstreet, has sponsored our art trail leaflet for the last 2 years 😀 thank you, This is a definite must whilst in Cromer.

We love all this years surfboards 🏄‍♂️ 😍 they all look amazing 👏

Join us on Sunday 30th August from 9.30am onwards for this year's auction, world pier Crabbing competition, craft stalls, music & much more.

24/08/2026

Don't forget to get your last minute votes in for this years favourite surfboard board!!

Voting closes 5pm this Tuesday, with businesses returning their board's, In preparation for Sundays Auction 😀

We wanted to also thank our friends from Cheverton Printers for helping us produce this years posters & art trail booklet, great job 👍

Thank you to Rachel Grout for supporting our community festival 🙏 ❤️ we love your artwork.

Thank you for your continued & generous support ❤️

We love all this years surfboards 🏄‍♂️ 😍 they all look amazing 👏

🦀 🦞 which is your favourite? 🦞 🦀 please help us by visiting all this years supporting businesses, we'd love to see your photos.

You can vote for your favorites, by simply scanning the QR located at any supporting business or pick up one of this years art trail leaflets.

Join us on Sunday 30th August from 9.30am onwards for this year's auction, world pier Crabbing competition, craft stalls, music & entertainment.

23/08/2026

Today we are celebrating some of this years sponsors of our community Cromer Crab & Lobster Festival 🦞 😋 😍

Crabstix Adventure Golf Cromer thank you for your continued support, allowing our May Festival Weekend to be based at Evington Lawns🏌‍♂️

Yes, Car and Van rental and storage & to the amazing Scott, for shorting us out with logistics 🚘 🚛

Carl Bird Limited for all things skips, & helping us keep our festival neat & tidy
thank you ❤️

Thank you for your continued & generous support ❤️

We love all this years surfboards 🏄‍♂️ 😍 they all look amazing 👏

🦀 🦞 which is your favourite? 🦞 🦀 please help us by visiting all this years supporting businesses, we'd love to see your photos.

You can vote for your favorites, by simply scanning the QR located at any supporting business or pick up one of this years art trail leaflets.

Join us on Sunday 30th August from 9.30am onwards for this year's auction, world pier Crabbing competition, craft stalls, music & entertainment.