The Nottingham Waterfront Festival

12/05/2026

PARTY OF THE SUMMER AT WATERFRONT FESTIVAL 2026!🎉

Brought to by I’m Not From London and Dedicated C.I.C!

💥DSM IV, Dura Mater, Gangsta Picnic, Baddy issues, Float, Black Olive Rush and MANY MORE!💥

Now in its 16th year, The Nottingham Waterfront Festival has raised over £50,000 and earlier this year, we won the Visit Notts Silver award for Visit Notts best festival 2025!

Dress theme - Adventure!!

🎁Prizes for the first, second and third best costume will be given out on the day!🎁

WHO WE’RE RAISING FOR THIS YEAR...

(All profits go to charity and this year our chosen beneficiaries are Emmanuel House and Mind)

Emmanuel House Support Centre, Nottingham
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Emmanuel House is an independent charity that supports people who are homeless, rough sleeping, in crisis, or at risk of homelessness in Nottingham.

Their purpose is to tackle isolation, vulnerability and homelessness within our community by providing an inclusive, compassionate service to people who need help, whether it’s providing brief reassurance or more in-depth and prolonged support.

Mind
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When you’re living with a mental health problem, or supporting someone who is, having access to the right information is vital.

Mind are working to make sure nobody has to face a mental health problem alone. People need our support more than ever, and demand for our services is growing.

Mind only exist because of the amazing support of people like you. We value your support and we’re committed to treating you with respect and openness.

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4 stages of over 40 best acts from our fair city from 1pm - 2am.

Tickets available behind the bar at Canalhouse or via Gigantic Tickets

All money raised going to Mind and Emmanuel House

🎫 Get tickets: https://www.gigantic.com/waterfront-festival-tickets

ARE YOU READY TO PARTY??

01/05/2026

Get your early bird tickets this week, they go up to £14 on Monday…

Thanks for the feature in nottingham festivals LeftLion Magazine Nottingham!

09/10/2025

‘Well what a festival this year’s Waterfront was?!!

Thank you so much to all our bands, musicians and DJ's, our sponsors Gigantic Tickets, , Madrí Excepcional, LeftLion Magazine Nottingham, the engineers, stage managers and everyone who came along and bought a ticket or shared a post. You all helped us raise £4509 to be split between Emmanuel House Support Centre, Nottingham and Mermaids!

That's over £50 thousand raised since we started 15 years ago! We've also been entered into the Visit Notts, festival experience vote!, if you've enjoyed the Nottingham Waterfront Festival please follow the link to vote Waterfront!!

http://bit.ly/3Itamb6

You've all made a massive positive difference to people’s lives!!! Well done and thankyou from the bottom of our hearts! All the love, Will and the I'm Not From London & Waterfront Team x

03/08/2025

Well that was a bit bloody good wasn’t it!!!

Proper post incoming but still loading out and knackered, Thankyou so much all of you!!

What a fifteenth birthday , what a day!!! ###

23/07/2025

Big thanks Kelham from Visit Notts for your NOTTINGHAM WATERFRONT FESTIVAL 2025 - Sat 2nd August at The Canalhouse preview!

https://marketingnottingham.uk/nottinghams-iconic-waterfront-festival-returns-for-2025/

Tickets selling fast get yours across the bar at The Canalhouse Bar or from Gigantic Tickets!

11/07/2025

06/05/2025

We’re back!!

Sat 2nd August

One venue, 4 stages, 40+ acts, 2 charities

In 14 years the Waterfront festival has raised over £43’000 for local and national charities. This year’s will be the 15th Waterfront Fest and also the 20th years of putting on gigs in Notts!

Our charities this year are &

We hope you can join us!

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24/07/2024

'Many of Nottingham's talented artists attended the Festival and I spotted members of Pretty Windows, Wizards Can't Be Lawyers, Bad Blood Milk Robot, the artist Oliver Lovley aka Dog Explosion and many more in the crowd"

Thanks so much for the ace review - Bassey Easton/ LeftLion Magazine Nottingham

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23/07/2024

Well it’s been a fortnight since the favourite day of our year so far, The Nottingham Waterfront Festival and what a day it was!!! We raised £4’104.53 which will be split between and ) we’ll keep you updated on how that is spent!

That’s over £46’000 the The Nottingham Waterfront Festival has raised for local charities since it’s inception in 2010 and including two years of lockdown making a significant positive impact on Nottingham people’s lives through it’s music. A massive thanks to everyone who helped out, our bands, DJs, musicians, stage managers ,interns, soundtechs, stage ,PA & lighting crews, designers, decor teams, designers, drivers, workshops photographers, bar and door staff our amazing sponsors; . , and ***hdrink , our good friends at , the mighty and everyone who wore a hat and of course who bought a ticket!

The fact it was on at the same day as ‘the football’ and was a bit rainy at the start of the day did worry us but it was so amazing to see that people still came out in their droves to celebrate the city’s amazing musical community whilst raising money for two very important charities: Emmanuel House who do so much and receive so little support for their outstanding contribution to tackling homelessness and providing day centres for those in need and Music Venue Trust protecting our grass roots venues, we really need more of those in Nottingham! We hope to see you all for next year’s Waterfront Festival on Saturday 2nd August xx

Get your tickets from your favourite Nottingham ticket outlet and our sponsor - Gigantic Tickets (Linkinbio!!!

Thankyou so much again for making this day so special and helping raise so much, lots of love, Will, Hannah and all the Waterfront FestivaI’M NOT FROM LONDONlondon team!! XX

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23/07/2024

Well it's been a fortnight since the favourite day of our year so far, The Nottingham Waterfront Festival and what a day it was!!!

We raised £4'104.53 which will be split between both charities ( Emmanuel House Support Centre, Nottingham and The Music Venue Trust) we'll keep you updated on how that is spent!

That's over £46'000 the The Nottingham Waterfront Festival has raised for local charities since it's inception in 2010 and including two years of lockdown making a significant positive impact on Nottingham people's lives through it's music.

A massive thanks to everyone who helped out from our stage managers Karlos, Anna, Jake and Destinee, our DJ's: Sonia (Stiff Kittens) Luke, Kieron, Paul, Mole and Jimi Arundell, our star interns Sofie and Luke, our sound tech's Bea, Richard, Maximo, and Max our PA and backline crews, Lee Hughes for the muscle, Ben Hellings for the promo video, Ava Whiteman for the poster, Craig and the Nottingham Gig Buddies for the Clashfinder and support, Matt Thomas for overseeing our new sound tech's, Ben (The Angel Microbrewery) Rose and Jon T for your vans, Phil and all at JT Soar for your backline help, Phil Taylor and Matt Rowley, our amazing hat workshop leader and children's entertainment guru Livvy Azzopardi, Brendan (Metempsychosis) and his crack team Grace Reeves and Gem Adams. Thankyou to Sarah Manton from Sneinton Avenues for all the amazing hat based decor (we take our hats off to you all). Thanks James Birtwhistle, gig photography, Harvey Steele and Alice Reeves for the photos, Oskar and Jordan for the videography. Big up Steph Peacham for your tireless work on the door, all the Castle Rock Brewery and Canalhouse Bar crew, our amazing sponsors Gigantic Tickets, Madrí Excepcional, Castle Rock and H***h , our good friends at BBC Music Introducing in The East Midlands, Dean Jackson at The Beat , Amy Jay Britton, Radio Nottingham, the mighty LeftLion Magazine Nottingham and of course every single musician that played a note, wore a hat (The winner of the competition was Daniel Ison - big prize coming your way!!) and helped us raise so much for such a good cause and of course every last one of you that bought a ticket and helped push the event in whatever capacity. The fact it was on at the same day as 'the football' and it didn't seem to bright at the start of the day did worry us but it was so nice to see that people still came out in their droves to celebrate the city's amazing musical community whilst raising money for two very important charities for these times, Emmanuel House Homeless Shelter who do so much and receive so little support for their outstanding contribution to tackling homelessness and providing day centres for those in need and Music Venue Trust protecting our grass roots venues, we really need more of those in Nottingham!

We hope to see you all for next year's Waterfront Festival on Saturday 2nd August 2025!!!

Get your tickets from your favourite Nottingham ticket outlet and our sponsor - Gigantic Tickets (Linkincommentsbelow) !!!

Thank you so much again for making this day so special and helping raise so much, lots of love, Will, Hannah and all the Waterfront Festival team!! XX