Worstead Festival

05/06/2026

❗️Announcement❗️

Our last Organising Committee Meeting will be on Wednesday 8th July now, NOT Wednesday 1st July.

🙏🏼 If you’re reading this and interested in helping out over the festival week or on the weekend, do come along to see where you can get involved. We’ll need lots of helpers setting up and taking everything down after Worstead Festival 2026

📅 Wednesday 8th July
⏰ 7pm start
📍Queen Elizabeth Hall Worstead

03/06/2026

We've let the bone out of the bag! These are the pet businesses attending Norfolk's biggest village festival on the last weekend of July, so you and your dog can get excited about delicious treats and yummy new meals.

Don't forget to give the businesses a follow to see what they're bringing to the festival, and share this with your friends - or should we say fur-riends? 🐾 🦴

Daisy's Doggy Hampers Butternut Box Wiggle Waggle

01/06/2026

Our brilliant team of trustees, who have been essential assets in getting the festival to where it is today.

This photo was taken at Worstead Church where our story began 60 years ago this summer, in 1966 when the church roof needed repairing. Funds were needed to do this, as it was quite expensive, so a swear jar was set up in the households in Worstead as a money pot! With this, they repaired the roof and put on the first village festival.

An event which 19 years later on the 19th July 1985, the Queen's Mother visited! Arriving by royal helicopter from Sandringham, her primary mission was to officially open the newly built village hall, which was later named the Queen Elizabeth Hall. Her visit remains our most famous milestone in the festival's history.

29/05/2026

The business event checklist you didn't know you needed for the Worstead Festival, and to get this sorted NOW not the week before:

❗️Make a QR code to take customers to your website, social media or lead form. You can make these on Canva but beware, most 'free' QR code generation websites limit you to 10 or 20 scans, then it stops working until you pay to subscribe.

❗️Have you got enough business cards? Display these everywhere on your table, or elsewhere on your pitch, and have them in customer's goodie bags (if applicable). Don't be that business that creates barriers to entry straight away for new customers to support you online.

❗️Vodafone is the best option on the field for good coverage for SUM UP machines. If you don’t have Vodafone already, you can buy a cheap package

❗️ If you have Vodafone already, don’t use the wifi available because Vodafone is better

❗️Battery packs with USB-C and lightning cables - you never know if another stallholder needs help, because they don't have the right lead for their device.

Have we missed anything that you would recommend, when you've been here before?

PS. Today is the 29th May and from today, it is 56 days until the first day of the Worstead Festival. There will be businesses on our 115 pitches, and about 10,000 visitors. With this huge potential for some networking with the other businesses in attendance, but also meeting so many customers - new and existing ones, we implore every business to action this.

28/05/2026

When making our latest post on the Live Entertainment this summer, we were sent this video to give a perspective of what their show is like.

It’s well worth a watch to have something to look forward to seeing in 51 days! 👀 Outlaw Entertainments at Worstead Festival 2026

Outlaw Entertainments' Wild West Arena Stunt Show. All the horse wrangling, trick riding, gun slinging, roping, old western, six shooting, comedy you could n...

28/05/2026

Professional horsemanship with audience participation and watching out for the sneaky Outlaws trying to steal the show, a fairy workshop to spark young imaginations and amazing BMX stunts; all to the beautiful Scottish sound of bagpipes...even we're getting excited at the thought of all this in one weekend, and for our 60th anniversary too! 🤩

Show timings will be announced nearer the time, but for now give us a follow to find out what else is coming...

What are you most excited for from this carousel alone?
Ruby Flames Entertainment City of Norwich Pipe Band and

27/05/2026

This will be at the Worstead Festival 2026 in Mill Hill, Saturday 25th and Sunday 26th July. Who’s having a go?

You asked we delivered!! Say hello to the new mega slide.

23/05/2026

Toll Barn Veterinary Centre Limited based just outside North Walsham is a family-run business that has been running for 12 years. Well loved by the local community, they care for pets and other exotic creatures.

"I have been in twice this week...they even went out in the rain just to get him some grass to eat :) very happy and would recommend as a friendly, understanding, caring, knowledgeable vets :)"

One of our 2026 Sponsors who, without their support, the festival wouldn't be what it is. Thank you for partnering with us, and helping us to make a difference to so many local organisations.

For further details, get in touch with us on the below details.
📞 07787 845781
📧[email protected] - Simon Gray, sponsorship volunteer

21/05/2026

If you didn’t hear, the Worstead Festival 2026 was featured in the EDP 24 recently. Have a read below 👇🏼

More than 10,000 people are expected to descend on Worstead as the village prepares for the 60th anniversary of its popular festival.