1984 - 2026
Booking Links for the festival 2027
LET'S FISH - Saturday 4th July 9.30 - 4.30pm - Beginners angling sessions for adults and children - Book a one hour session - tickets going FAST
BOOK HERE SOLD OUT
BAKE OFF!! baking competition at Stonebridge City Farm from 2pm on Sunday 5th July - ENTER HERE
JUMP START - 7-11 year olds dance class and performance of the current classes very funny surfing based dance piece. Monday 6th July 4.30 - 5.10pm at Farbric - BOOK HERE
MAKING MOVES - Thursday 9th July 10-11 at Fabric - BOOK HERE
LET'S FISH - Saturday 18th July 9.30 - 4.30pm Beginners angling sessions for adults and children - Book a one hour session - tickets going FAST
Sneinton Community Festival is 43 years old this year - its roots date back hundreds of years: a local, volunteer-lead, celebration of our community; our diversity and creativity
This year, we are honouring our waterways & water bodies that hydrate Sneinton: all the creatures and stories of the water - both real and mythical smaller than the eye can see and as big as Brenda the new bridge!
We hope you will join us throughout the week, at the parade and main day on Saturday 11 July at Trickett's Park
Lots of love, The Sneinton Festival Team x
Sneinton Festival Programme 2026
Saturday 4th July
9.30 - 4.30pm Let's Fish SOLD OUT
10.30 - 12.30pm Family Art Workshop with Wild & Free Studio (all ages) Drop-in session - printing, painting & collage; makin a banner and river creatures for the parade
at The Dales Centre Library, Sneinton
4-7pm International Food Evening - Food from all over the world cooked by local people. Performances from Sneinton Youth Theatre Group and Home Rangers, activities from Non Such Studios @ St Christopher's Church Hall, NG2 4FH
Sunday 5th July
10am - 4.15pm Stonebridge Goes Sneinton! From 2pm Sneinton Festival Bake Off! - free to enter
@ Stonebridge City Farm, Stonebridge Rd, NG3 2FR ENTER HERE
Monday 6th July
10:30am - 1pm Tuyo Circus School Workshop (all ages) at the Lindum Grove Lunch Club @ Lindum Grove Community Garden, NG2 3GH
10.15am - 11am Mini Movers Boogie Beat (0-5years) @ The Dales Centre Library, NG2 4HJ
4.30pm - 5.10pm Jump Start - performance & open dance session for 7-11 year olds and their families Booking is essential ->BOOK HERE
Tuesday 7th July
7.30pm Billy Qwizz - Pub quiz at The King Billy Pub, NG2 4RG
Wednesday 8th July
9.30am - 11am Mini Movers Outdoor Play (0-5years) @The Renewal Trust, King Edwards Park, NG3 2AS
11am Nottingham Mencap Choir Performance - fun, playful, joyful & inclusive lead by the wonderful Fiona Allardyce @
Stonebridge City Farm, NG3 2FR
11.30am-1.30pm Feel Good Gold (for 60+ years) @The Renewal Trust, King Edwards Park, NG3 2AS
4-7pm Walk Bike Run Hub Session (All ages) @ The Renewal Trust, King Edwards Park, NG3 2AS
6-7pm SWAG Litter Pick (Sneinton Waste Action Group) - Meet outside Sneinton Co-op, NG2 4HJ - Litter pick down
Kentwood Rd along the old route of the Kentwood Dyke
Thursday 9th July
10am - 12.30pm Mini Growers - gardening stay & play (0-5years) Heya will be cooking lunch, Dr Linda, community entymologist will be teaching us about pond creatures AND Wild&Free Studio will be coming to make art and play !! @Lindum Grove Community Garden, NG2 3GH
10-11am Making Moves Taster Session - special taster session - dance, movement and play for 0-5 year olds and their
grown ups. @ Fabric, 2 Dayeyne St, NG3 2AR - Booking is essential BOOK HERE
1- 7pm OPEN HOUSE @The William Booth Birthplace Museum, NG2 4QG
4-6pm Retro Gaming Evening - pick up and play video gaming for all ages! inc. water themed games - from ItsMuchMore
Friday 10th July
10am - 12.30pm Coffee, Cake and Local History (all ages) @Bakersfield Community Centre, NG3 7DN
10am - 12pm Feel Good Live Well (Dementia Hub) @The Renewal Trust, King Edwards Park, NG3 2AS
MAIN FESTIVAL DAY
Saturday 11th July
9.30am-11am Pre-Parade Breakfast - Bring your outfit to do finishing touches and get ready for the parade
@St Stephen's Church, NG2 4JN
Then find your place in the parade in the church yard (this is a change from the programme - we are not gathering in the Green's Mill car park anymore)
Find your school or community group or go to the back section
11am Parade starts - goes up Sneinton Dale, right at Jamia Masjid Sultania Mosque, down Trent Rd all the way to the
festival site @Trickett's Park
12-5pm Main Festival Day at Trickett's Park
A proudly non smoking and alcohol free event
Food, stalls, activities, workshops, live music, dancing
MAIN STAGE
Burly Nagasaki (avant surf rock two piece)
Nottingham Kung Fu & Lion Dance
Rebecca Leivers 'We are the folk' (singer, mermaid and jolly lad)
Simran (deeply personal R&B songs)
Tanuki Moon (indie, reggae, hip hop)
Possum Kid (dreamy rock)
HERDS (Sneinton's very own psychedelic five piece)
IMPACD CIC DANCE STUDIO - Coffee and Cake available all day
1pm Fabric Dance Workshop
1.45pm Latin Dance workshop with Todo Latino
2.30pm Fabric Dance Workshop
3.30pm - 6pm World Music Dance
YURT PERFORMANCE SPACE
Hazel Warren (inspirational and moving ukele poet)
Ebony Reels (engaging Afro-carribean story telling for all ages)
Poetry Collective (various artists inclusing 'Write Queer'
Geoffrey Jumper - Live music, comedy, magic, crazy puppets - wonderful children's entertainer
1pm and 3pm at the play park at Trickett's Park
12-5pm Danelaw Viking Encampment - at Lindum Grove Community Garden, NG2 3GH
1pm Weapons Display
2pm Kiddie Vike - children come and have a go at fighting a viking
2.30pm Weapons Display Part 2
3pm Kiddie Vike - children come and have a go at fighting a viking
Sunday 12th July
Arrive for 10am - 10am - 1pm - Have a go at Dragon Boat Racing with Notts Anaconda Dragon Boat Club @Trent Side North, West Bridgford, NG2 5FA (in front of the City Ground) (coyr)
12pm - 4pm Picnic in the Park - Bring your own picnic and enjoy the park. Watch wonderful acpustic acts, listen to story tellers, watch the performance of Much Ado About Nothing by the incredible Notttingham Shakespeare Company @ Greens Windmill & Science Centre, NG2 4QB
12pm - 4pm Oliver Hind Club Summer Fayre
Stalls, shows, street food, games & community love
performance by the astounding DAKO flying angels
BONUS EVENT
Saturday 18th July
9.30am - 4.30pm Let's fish - Beginners angling session @River Trent onThe Embankment - booking is essential BOOK HERE
CHANGE TO PROGRAMME
The family art workshop on
Saturday 4th July is at a slightly
different time
- 10.30 - 12.30 (instead of 11-1)
The venue is The Dale Centre library, Sneinton
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This year!!!
SNEINTON FESTIVAL 2026:
On the Water
4th - 12th July 2026
Parade & Main Carnival Day
-> Saturday 11th July 2026 <-
Celebrating the Element of Water
The Trent, the Leen , Colwick Lakes, the Canal and all the ponds of Sneinton, all the creatures that live in them, the people who work and play on them
- water is sacred and essential -
join us to enjoy the stories of our water - sacred wells, ghosts, mysterious turtles, floods and marauding mobs!!!
Row your coracle over to the perfect fishing spot, with the wind in the willows, have a chat to a salamander, see the world through the eyes of a water nymph or a great carp, whispering old soul songs of the river of old, prophetic words about the spring of life, become enchanted by a nixie and be back in time for tea!
Well loved
43 Year old
community celebration of diversity and heritage
Sneinton Festival is: a village fete, a celebration, a carnival, a parade, a cultural event - in the wonderful and unique village of Sneinton, Nottingham, England.
The first festival was held in 1984, and has since been run by volunteers from the community for the community! Always involving local residents, local organisations, community groups, community gardens, schools, churches, the mosque, youth and play groups, artists, musicians, performers and local project workers.
"I remember the Viking society coming out fully decked out in full regalia, axes and plaits galore. They certainly added a unique flavour to the parade as they would roar out 'Odin!' at the top of their lungs at regular intervals!"
Rich, 37
"I remember it as a whirlwind of colour and creativity; a beautiful expression of the melting pot that is Sneinton - where anyone can be at home and find their place. Strong hippy vibes which I always loved as well ! "
Ruth, 36
"I loved it last year when we walked down Sneinton Dale and I carried a banner"
Elliott, 8
"it inspires so many people to get involved in the community in other projects and to see the importance of this. Community festivals are done by local people for local people and so this is a great example of communities doing things for themselves and better than anyone else could do for them! I think the street parade in Sneinton is very important as it says to the community for one day you are more important than the cars!"
"I remember taking my son when he was tiny. There's a lovely picture of him sat in a yurt with his little baby friend."
Kathryn, 44
"I remember making the banner with Anna for the bus. Kids would come to the library and make beautiful fabric faces, we glued and sewed them together to make a big banner, it was so good. It was really nice and such good fun."
Michelle, Happy Monday's Play Group
'The year we had 25 Past the Skank headlining the after party at the Lord Nelson was off the chart. Such good vibes. The other was when we had nearly 100 Sneintonites of all ages, shapes and sizes doing Kundalini yoga together. If you've never seen it, it's more like a dance workout than yoga. Amazing.'
