🎊 Harpenden Festival 2026
Time: 12:00 - 18:00
🗓 2026 DATE & TIME
▪️Saturday 5th September: 12pm - 6pm
ℹ️ ABOUT
The Festival will stretch across the High Street, Church Green and on to Harpenden Common and will incorporate all the best parts of the Town's events over the years, bringing together our community and welcoming everyone young and old.
🤩 WHAT TO EXPECT
You can expect an action packed day.
Live entertainment, a main music stage featuring live bands, a stage showcasing talented local acts
Family zone packed with activities, street entertainment and walkabout performers. Ferret racing, a climbing wall and circus skills plus much more will be on offer to entertain.
Bar areas and refreshment zones, a wide variety of stalls and traders and delicious hot food will all help to complete the day.
📍 LOCATION
Harpenden Common & Town Centre
16 other events on this day
🏎 🎬 Dunstable's Soapbox Derby & Outdoor Cinema 2026 - Priory Gardens
Time: 12:00 - 20:00
🤩 WHAT TO EXPECT
This action-packed FREE family event is a chance to take part in something truly special and is ideal for all ages. Watch teams race their hand-built karts down our 100-metre custom track, all hoping to cross the finish line in record time. Each kart will be unique, with designs as wild and wonderful as the teams behind them– so there’s plenty to cheer! Don’t worry about missing any of the action, a giant screen will show the races live throughout the day, so you can sit back and enjoy the show.
🎬 FREE OUTDOOR CINEMA
And the fun doesn’t stop there! After the derby, stay and relax with a special outdoor cinema film screening to end the day in style. There’ll also be live entertainment, music, food and stalls to browse. Whether you’re cheering from the side lines or soaking up the atmosphere, it’s set to be a brilliant community celebration.
📽 FILMS
▪️Zootopia (PG): 3:15pm
▪️F1: The Movie (12A): 5:15pm
🚘 Car Boot Sale at Morrisons Car Park in Milton Keynes 2026 - Morrisons
Time: 07:00 - 12:00
🛍 BUYERS: Free
▪️From: 7am -12pm
🚘 SELLERS: £5
▪️Just turn up and arrive for around 6am
ℹ️ CONTACT DETAILS
If would like more information please get in touch:
📧 Email:
lynsey.marriott@morrisonsplc.co.uk
🚘 Car Boot Sale at Milton Ernest Garden Centre 2026
Time: 09:00 - 12:00
😀 BUYERS ENTRY: Free
(No buyers before 9am please)
ℹ️ NOTE TO SELLERS:
For sellers setting up takes place from 8am on our front lawn area and it is £8 for a car or £12 for a van. On arrival stallholders will set up on our front lawn area and we will collect your payment early on in the day.
✅️ HOW TO BOOK A PITCH....
Please arrive no earlier than 8am as the centre gates will not be open until then.
Bookings are taken on a first come first served basis by email only, providing your name, phone number, registration number and whether you have a car or van.
📧 Booking Email: Click here
🌸 THE GARDEN CENTRE
After checking the bargains at the car boot sale, why not have a browse in the garden centre and grab some brekky or lunch. A great Saturday morning.
🗓 2026 CAR BOOT SALE DATES:
▪️Saturday 7th March 2026
▪️Saturday 4th April 2026
▪️Saturday 2nd May 2026
▪️Saturday 6th June 2026
▪️Saturday 4th July 2026
▪️Saturday 1st August 2026
▪️Saturday 5th September 2026
▪️Saturday 3rd October 2026
▪️Saturday 31st October 2026
🛻 Chiltern Vale Landrover Family Fun Day 2026 - Totternhoe Memorial Hall
Time: 14:00 - 00:00
🤩 WHAT TO EXPECT
▪️Trial Sections
The above is subject to change depending on how many volunteers we get.
💷 ENTRY:
▪️Non Member: £15
▪️CLRV Members: Free
ℹ️ CONTACT DETAILS
📧 Email: snewtons16@ntlworld.com
📘 Facebook: Chiltern Vale Landrover Club
🌸 Clophill Therapeutic Community Garden Open Day - September 2026
Time: 12:00 - 14:00
🌸 WHAT TO EXPECT
Come and join us for a fun-filled afternoon at our Clophill Therapeutic Community Garden Open Day as we celebrate our 2nd anniversary and officially open our beautiful new pond area!
Whether you've visited us before or are discovering us for the first time, everyone is welcome to explore our peaceful gardens, meet our friendly volunteers, and see how therapeutic gardening is making a difference in our community.
Bring your family, friends and neighbours for a relaxed afternoon surrounded by nature. We'd love to celebrate with you and show you everything we've been growing over the last two years!
What's happening?
🍔 Free BBQ
🎂 Cake & Plant Stall
🎨 Face Painting
🦋 Scavenger Hunt
🌸 Explore the Cut Flower Garden
🌼 Visit our Sensory Garden
🍎 Wander through the Orchard, Wildlife Garden, Allotment & Polytunnel
🐝 See our new pond and The Hive cabin
🤝 Meet the team and find out how you can get involved through volunteering.
🐶 DOGS
Well-behaved dogs on leads are welcome.
📍LOCATION
Bloomin' Well CIC, first field on the left, up the track opposite Hawthorne Close, Shefford Road, Clophill, Bedfordshire.
🎶 Bandeoke - The Rufus Centre, Flitwick
Time: 19:00 - 00:00 Price: £16.00
▪️AGE: 18+
▪️Doors Open 7:00pm
▪️Live Music from 7:30pm
🤩 WHAT TO EXPECT
The Ultimate Party Band UK: a night of live music, big laughs and a fun electric atmosphere! Whether you’re singing or spectating, it’s a night you won’t want to miss!
The evening kicks off with an incredible live performance from The Ultimate Party Band UK, followed by two epic rounds of Bandeoke.
If you fancy a go, choose from over a 100 tracks, sign up and perform live on stage with the band!
Prefer to watch? Come along, grab a drink, cheer on the performers, sing along from the crowd and enjoy the entertainment—it’s just as much fun to watch as it is to take part!
Then, when the Bandeoke wraps up, the DJ takes over to keep the party going with a full on after-party full of floor-fillers until late!
Live Band • Bandeoke • DJ After-Party
🎟 TICKET COST:
▪️Adults: £15 plus £1 booking fee
▪️Tickets include a welcome drink!
ℹ️ CONTACT DETAILS
☎️ Phone: 01525 631905
🏎 🎬 Dunstable's Soapbox Derby & Outdoor Cinema 2026 - Priory Gardens
Time: 12:00 - 20:00
🤩 WHAT TO EXPECT
This action-packed FREE family event is a chance to take part in something truly special and is ideal for all ages. Watch teams race their hand-built karts down our 100-metre custom track, all hoping to cross the finish line in record time. Each kart will be unique, with designs as wild and wonderful as the teams behind them– so there’s plenty to cheer! Don’t worry about missing any of the action, a giant screen will show the races live throughout the day, so you can sit back and enjoy the show.
🎬 FREE OUTDOOR CINEMA
And the fun doesn’t stop there! After the derby, stay and relax with a special outdoor cinema film screening to end the day in style. There’ll also be live entertainment, music, food and stalls to browse. Whether you’re cheering from the side lines or soaking up the atmosphere, it’s set to be a brilliant community celebration.
📽 FILMS
▪️Zootopia (PG): 3:15pm
▪️F1: The Movie (12A): 5:15pm
🥂 🍑 Bottomless Brunch Served by Butlers in the Buff - The Crown, Flitwick
Time: 14:00 Price: £50.00
👯♀️Gather up the girls for....
✨️Bottomless Prosecco & Cocktails
✨️Bottomless BBQ
✨️90s Cheese Music - into the evening too!
🎟 TICKET COST:
£50 per person - please book on our website via the event link.
ℹ️ CONTACT DETAILS
☎️ Phone: 01525 310136
📧 Email: hello@thecrownflitwick.co.uk
🛡 Living History Festival 2026 - Stockwood Discovery Centre, Luton
Time: 11:00 - 17:00
🗓 2026 DATES & TIMES:
▪️Saturday 5th September: 11pm - 5pm
▪️Sunday 6th September: 11pm - 5pm
EVENT DETAILS
Explore authentic encampments, enjoy live demonstrations, music and family activities, then discover the beauty of Stockwood’s walled gardens too. There’s plenty to see and experience throughout the weekend!
👑 Meet historical characters, including:
Roman soldiers - Henry VIII and Queen Anne Boleyn - Medieval knights - Georgian coffee house characters - Queen Victoria and Prince Albert - Napoleonic soldiers - First World War stories and more.
🎟 TICKET COST (Including booking fee):
▪️Child: £9.00
▪️Adult: £9.00
▪️Family of 4: £34.00
🎉 Family Fun Day 2026 - Flitton and Greenfield Village Hall
Time: 13:00
🤩 WHAT TO EXPECT
It's going to be a fantastic afternoon of live music, delicious food, family entertainment, children's activities and community fun – all while raising vital funds to help maintain and improve our much-loved village hall for future generations.
LIVE MUSIC
🎤 Paul O'Kynd
🎤 George Anthony
🎧 DJ Carly C
🎤 Jack Bennett
🎸 Jinx Band
FOOD & DRINK
🌶 Eskabars chill - grill
🔥 Smoky Bites
🍜 Maya Street Food
🍴 E&S Catering
🍩 Doughnut Stall
🍦 Lickety Lips Ice Cream
🍿 Popcorn & Candy Floss
☕ Clumsy Mare Coffee
🍺 Geralds Bar
🍻 Outside Bottle Bar
☕ Teas, Coffees & Cake
🐟 Howes Fish & Chips
FUN & ENTERTAINMENT
🎨 Fizzy Facepaints
🏰 Inflatables
🛍️ Plenty of fantastic craft stalls
🎪 Attractions & family entertainment
🎟️ RAFFLE PRIZES FROM
☕ Wooden Hill Coffee Roasters
🔐 D & G Short Locksmiths, Ironmongers and Security Specialists
🍻 The Jolly Coopers, Wardhedges
🏒 Milton Keynes Lightning
🍺 Chequers Westoning
💆 Scilla
💆♀️ Calm & Crown Head Spa
🐾 Parispawssalon
❤️ CHARITY STALLS
🌳 Neighbourhood Plan
🌿 Greensands Trust
💙 Tibbs Dementia
💚 MNDA Bedfordshire
🗣️ Talk the Talk
…and MORE details to follow! 👀
❤️ SPONSORS
As always we couldn't do these events without help!! Thank you to
✨️UK Events and Tents Marquee Hire
✨️Country Properties Flitwick
✨️TechNET I.T
✨️No Pressure Exterior Cleaning
🙏 PLEASE DO NOT BRING YOUR OWN FOOD OR DRINK.
We've worked really hard to bring together some fantastic local food and drink vendors, so please support them and support your Village Hall.
🅿️ LIMITED PARKING ON SITE
If you live locally, please walk to the event if you can. This will help us keep parking available for those who really need it and reduce congestion around the Village Hall.
💙 Come along. Bring your family. Bring your friends. Support local. Have fun. Make memories.
❤️ Family Fun Day 2026 - Marston Moreteyne Community Centre
Time: 11:00 - 15:00
💷 BRING CASH
Mostly cash event
✨️ Inflatables
✨️ Rides
✨️ Food stalls
✨️ Craft stalls
✨️ Tombola
✨️ Raffle
✨️ Large second had sale
✨️ Magic show....and much more!
📍LOCATION
At Marston Moreteyne Community Centre and the field.
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🌶 Waddesdon Chill Fest 2026 (National Trust)
Time: 10:00 - 17:00
🗓 2026 DATES:
▪️Saturday 5th September: 10am - 5pm
▪️Sunday 6th September: 10am - 5pm
✨️ ABOUT
With handpicked exhibitors, all passionate about chilli, the festival guarantees to bring you the best of local artisan producers as well as some of the nation’s best loved independent traders from across the country. Throughout the weekend, enjoy live music and entertainment, family fun and children’s activities as well as the opportunity to walk around the gardens.
✨️ HIGHLIGHTS
Grounds Admission
Access to the Chilli Fest event
Food market
Live music
Drinks bar
Family entertainment
Chilli eating competition
✨️ WHAT'S INCLUDED IN MY TICKET
Grounds Admission
🚫 NOT INCLUDED - Charges apply
▪️Shuttle bus tickets
ℹ️ IMPORTANT INFORMATION
Blue Badge and limited mobility parking is provided in the visitor car park. Wheelchairs are available to use on a first-come first-served basis. Dogs are welcome throughout the grounds, except in the Aviary. Assistance dogs are welcome across the site. Please note that local resident tickets apply to the villages on Waddesdon, Winchendon and Westcott only. Proof of residence with photo ID is required at the point of admission.
🎟 TICKET COST:
▪️From Free - £20
🕺 Paul Wilson Ska & Reggae Shoe - The Jolly Coopers, Wardhedges
Time: 19:00
Get ready for a night packed with good music, good vibes and one love as The Paul Wilson Ska & Reggae Show comes to The Jolly Coopers, Flitton!
🔥 Singing the hits of:
▪️Bob Marley
▪️Prince Buster
▪️Jimmy Cliff
▪️UB40
▪️Sugar Minott
▪️Desmond Dekker
▪️John Holt
▪️Chaka Demus & Pliers
▪️Lord Creator
▪️The Slickers & more!
Expect classic reggae, Jamaican ska and plenty of tunes to get you moving.
🎡 Luton Pop Up Fun Park - August/September 2026
Time: 13:00 - 21:00
🗓 2026 DATES
🤑 Friday 28 August: 1pm - 9pm
✅ Saturday 29th August - 1pm - 9pm
✅ Sunday 30th August: 1pm - 9pm
✅ Monday 31st August: 1pm - 9pm
🤑 Friday 4th September: 1pm - 9pm
✅ Saturday 5th September: 1pm - 9pm
✅ Sunday 6th September: 1pm - 6pm
🤑 DISCOUNT DAYS!
Friday 21st, Friday 28th August & Friday 4th September 2026 - All Rides 2 ONLY Tokens! (Excludes Bungees).
💷 TOKENS
Pay Per Ride with our Token System - Tokens can be purchased onsite - Cash & Card Accepted.
🪙 TOKEN COST
▪️1 Token: £1.20
▪️10 Tokens: £10.00
RIDE LIST
👹 Daredevil
🚀 JetFire
🔥 InFerno
🚗 Dodgems
🌪️ Twister
🇺🇸 Alcatraz
🚂 Runaway Train
🛞 Race O Rama
🚒 Monster Trucks
🏎️ BumperCarz
🔴 Bungees
🛝 Mega Slide
🎰 Games Stalls
🐤 Hook A Duck..... & LOADS MORE!
🚻 Onsite Security & Toilets.
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🚂 Rushden Station Bar Family Fun Day 2026
Time: 11:00 - 16:00
🤩 WHAT TO EXPECT
There will be train rides, refreshments in our Buffet Carriage, Chris’ Animal Encounters and more!
The Station Bar will be open from 12pm with a mini beer fest, music and entertainment.
The Goods Shed will be open between 11am – 4pm with a craft fair
ℹ️ ENQUIRIES
📧 Email: administrator@rhts.co.uk
❤️ Macmillian Family Fun Day 2026 - The Blackbirds, Flitwick
Time: 12:00 - 17:00
We are bringing back the Blackbirds Family Fun day! Get ready for a day full of fun, games, music and plenty of fundraising!
🤩 WHAT TO EXPECT
🎲 Games
🍬 Sweet Treats
🎨 Face Painting
🎤 Live Music/Karaoke …and so much more!
🧊💦 THE ICE BUCKET IS BACK!
This year’s Family Fun Day, the infamous Ice Bucket Challenge is making its return!
But we’re taking things up a notch this time…
Not only will you be able to raffle for the honour of tipping the buckets - you’ll also get to decide WHICH STAFF MEMBER is getting dunked! Last time it was our General Manager getting dunked by her own member of staff. This time, who could it be…
Come along to our Macmillan Family Fun Day, grab your raffle tickets and get ready to DUNK THE STAFF! 🥶🪣
🫶 HELP US RAISE MORE...
At our last family fun day, we raised £800 in support of MacMillan Cancer Support! This year we are looking to raise more and do more!
Bring your friends, bring the family and help us raise money for an amazing cause.
🎈Pop Up Show Time - The Olde Watermill, Barton-le-Clay
Time: 10:00 - 15:45
👦 AGE: Recommended for children up to 12 years
🗓 2026 DATES
▪️Friday 28th August
▪️Saturday 29th August
▪️Saturday 5th September
🕚 SHOW TIMES:
▪️10:00am, 12:30pm and 2:30pm
🤩 WHAT TO EXPECT
🧸 A lively puppet show
⭐ Party games
🎈 Hands-on balloon modelling
🫧 Giant bubble making
Pop-Up Showtime is brought to you by the team behind our much-loved Santa’s Grotto and Winter Wonderland experiences.
You may also recognise them from previous family shows including Hansel & Gretel, Sleeping Beauty, Little Red Riding Hood and The Three Billy Goats Gruff.
Whether you have joined us before or are discovering us for the first time, everyone is welcome to come along for plenty of laughter, play and family fun!
🎟 TICKET COST:
▪️Children: £6.50
▪️Adults: £3.50
▪️Babies under 12 months: FREE
⬇️ Book tickets via the event link.