The Forest Gate Festival

The Forest Gate Festival A vibrant, inclusive, volunteer-run street festival in the heart of Forest Gate - London E7.

Our facebook account is not monitored, please write on Instagram instead. The Forest Gate Festival first took place in 2000, on Osborne Road and has been going strong ever since. A local street Festival organised by enthusiastic residents on a volunteering basis. The Festival is about celebrating the people, talent, culture and the wonderful diversity of Forest Gate. Osborne Ro

ad is closed to traffic for the day and filled with craft stalls, food, street entertainment, drumming, dancing, hula-hooping and hundreds of people, young and old, having fun. It’s a great opportunity to meet your neighbours and enjoy a great day in Forest Gate with your friends.

Heard there might be a date you want to save...Forest Gate Festival is back for 2026
25/03/2026

Heard there might be a date you want to save...

Forest Gate Festival is back for 2026

*FOREST GATE FESTIVAL NEEDS YOU - VOTE FOR US* Do you love the Forest Gate Festival? We do too - which is why we volunte...
04/11/2025

*FOREST GATE FESTIVAL NEEDS YOU - VOTE FOR US*

Do you love the Forest Gate Festival? We do too - which is why we volunteer to organise it. It's a festival for the community by the community, we've been going for 25 years now and we don't want to stop there.

Unfortunately funding is increasingly challenging. The Festival costs around £10k a year and our sole income are stall booking fees of around £3k (so we make an annual loss of 7k unless we manage to raise it). On top of this it costs £5k a year to close the road for the festival - we're fortunate that the last couple of years the council has agreed to forego this fee but it's not something we can guarantee year on year.

To secure the future of the festival for the next few years we've applied for funding which would at least guarantee our future for 2026 and 2027.

If you love our free community festival please vote for us and leave a comment on the page. It's a really competitive field we're up against so please vote and ask your friends and family to vote if you like what we do. Voting closes at the end of the month and you can vote for more than one project.
*VOTE FOR US* here (link in bio)
https://newhamco-create.co.uk/en/projects/people-powered-forest-gate-maryland

When you're visited by the Viking Angel.10/10 outfit, no notes.
11/07/2025

When you're visited by the Viking Angel.

10/10 outfit, no notes.

Feeling hungry whilst at Forest Gate Festival? We got you.The street food was fantastic this year with such a huge varie...
10/07/2025

Feeling hungry whilst at Forest Gate Festival? We got you.

The street food was fantastic this year with such a huge variety from Mexican Tacos to Japanese Takoyaki, Pakistani BBQ to Filipino Bao Buns, Texas BBQ to Pani Puri, Mauritian curry to Pizza and way more.

Along with a huge variety of dessert stalls, with coffee, matcha, chai and cold drinks available.

POV: You're competing in the Dog Show
09/07/2025

POV: You're competing in the Dog Show

Loved seeing all of our bands and musical acts knocking it out of the park on both stages. If you want to see more of th...
07/07/2025

Loved seeing all of our bands and musical acts knocking it out of the park on both stages. If you want to see more of them you can follow their pages:

Main Stage:

Forest Gate Dog Jammers


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Acoustic stage:
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Fred and the Concords



That's a wrap on Forest Gate Festival 2025!Could that have been the best yet? A huge thank you to everyone who came down...
06/07/2025

That's a wrap on Forest Gate Festival 2025!

Could that have been the best yet?

A huge thank you to everyone who came down and made it such a brilliant atmosphere. A huge thank you to the brilliant bands, our fantastic and wide-ranging stall holders, our delicious food and drink stalls (I wish I could have eaten everything). It was amazing to show off the diversity of talent and creativity we have locally.

Finally a huge thank you to our volunteers, both in the form of those who helped on the day, and fellow committee members who work so hard to pull off the festival!

This was the 25th anniversary year, and we want to keep it going! If you loved attending the festival and want to help support the existence of future Forest Gate Festivals you can donate via the Stripe link below and in the bio

https://donate.stripe.com/7sY14neAF1Qa85q8CXco001

Ossie the Festival mascot flying high today - come join us on Osborne Road e7 (until 6pm)!
05/07/2025

Ossie the Festival mascot flying high today - come join us on Osborne Road e7 (until 6pm)!

FOREST GATE FESTIVAL 2025SAT 5TH JULY 11AM-6PMOSBORNE ROAD Forest Gate Festival is back for it's 25th Year, and everyone...
25/06/2025

FOREST GATE FESTIVAL 2025
SAT 5TH JULY
11AM-6PM
OSBORNE ROAD

Forest Gate Festival is back for it's 25th Year, and everyone is invited!

There's live music - 2 music stages and a DJ, incredible street food, loads of varied independent stall holders - including antiques and vintage, ceramics, art prints, clothes, handmade toys for kids, henna and loads more; as well as a play street for kids!

FOREST GATE FESTIVAL NEEDS YOU!Do you have a spare hour or so on Saturday 5th July? We really need more volunteers to he...
27/05/2025

FOREST GATE FESTIVAL NEEDS YOU!

Do you have a spare hour or so on Saturday 5th July? We really need more volunteers to help out on the festival day.

You will be joining a friendly team of dedicated community members who come together every year to make this fun family-friendly event happen!

Sign-up link in the bio!

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Osborne Road
London
E7

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