WE ARE BACK!
Date: 26 May 2021
WE ARE BACK!
We are delighted to announce that Craft Festival Cheltenham and Bovey Tracey will return this year.
DATES FOR YOUR DIARY
Craft Festival Cheltenham Town Hall August 13-15
Craft Festival Bovey Tracey September 10-12
We are SO looking forward to Welcoming you to Our Festivals.
We are looking forward to welcoming 100s of the finest makers with a huge range of activities for all ages for you to enjoy.
Workshops & Demonstrations
Both our Festivals in Cheltenham and Bovey Tracey, have a range of workshops and craft demonstrations. Learn a new skill and watch demonstrations from blacksmithing, pottery, basket making to surfboard making, printmaking and spoon carving.
BOOK YOUR TICKETS TO BOVEY TRACEY
BOOK YOUR TICKETS TO CHELTENHAM
Plan Your Visit
Our Festivals, as you can imagine, will look a little different this year, but we are doing everything we can to make your visit as safe and enjoyable as possible. To ensure your safety, visitor numbers to our Festivals are limited this year and tickets are available in advance only.
Your Safety
We can’t wait to welcome visitors back to our Craft Festivals in 2021. We want you to feel safe and be assured we are working hard to make all our events Covid secure for all our visitors, exhibitors, volunteers and staff.
What we will be doing:
- Visitor Numbers will be limited each day.
- You will find sanitiser stations and extra handwashing facilities around the site.
- Additional toilet facilities to allow for frequent cleaning.
- Frequent disinfecting of the tables, touch points and seating around the event.
- There will be a well signed one way system around the main tents and indoor venues with limited numbers within each tent.
- Our staff and stewards will be available to help you with directions and monitor crowd capacity. They will be wearing appropriate PPE for their roles.
- We encourage all our Exhibitors to take contactless payments wherever possible.
- Exhibitors will be wearing face covering and/or a protective screen on their stand.
- Please maintain 2m distancing in any queues and 1m plus around the Festival site.
- Face coverings must be worn inside our marquees or indoor spaces unless you are medically exempt. Masks are voluntary in our outdoor spaces.
BOOK YOUR TICKETS TO BOVEY TRACEY
BOOK YOUR TICKETS TO CHELTENHAM
Volunteering
All our Craft Festivals need a friendly army of volunteers to help run the events.
Our events do vary in size. Bovey Tracey is outdoors and the largest with over 200 makers, over 50 activities and over 10,000 visitors. Cheltenham Craft Festival is indoors and has around 100 stands. If you'd like to volunteer, we'd love to hear from you. CLICK HERE TO VOLUNTEER
Meet the Makers
We know that the reason why our Festival's are so popular is that you get to meet your favourite makers and discover something new and unexpected. Expertly chosen by our independent selection panels, our Craft Festivals introduce you to some of the most interesting and innovative makers from across the UK. CLICK HERE FOR BOVEY EXHIBITORS CLICK HERE FOR CHELTENHAM EXHIBITORS
Another Date for your Diary
We will be announcing details of our new Festival in Bath soon.