Our next festival will take place in June 2025.
Much Wenlock Festival runs bi-annually.
Our festival is predominantly hosted on the Church Green
Much Wenlock, Shrophire, TF13 6HR. However, scheduled activities and events may take place at various locations in and around Much Wenlock.
We cannot operate our festival without our amazing team of volunteers, join us and help make our next festival a success. Please email muchwenlockfestivals@gmail.com to express your interest in volunteering with us.
Are you passionate about Much Wenlock? Or arts, culture, and performance? Then you have come to the right place! Help us shape the next Much Wenlock Festival schedule by completing the survey linked. Our mission is to increase access to arts and cultural activities across Much Wenlock and provide a safe and supportive environment for all of our community to enjoy a range of experiences. Help us today and be a part of something special!
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There are many events and activities happening over the festival. Please come down and join us and enjoy a cake in our café bar, or a G&T on the green. Please check ticket availability on the event you wish to attend or pop along and speak to one of our volunteers on the gates.
All events are open to all unless otherwise stated. Access requirements can be discussed with a member of our committee in advance of your arrival.
Our opening event will be memorable as we celebrate our 40th birthday (or the end of our 40th year).
Join us to kick off the festival with fun, food, and friends.
Tickets: TBC
Our party night will be high energy, fun filled, and a music extravaganza. Guaranteed to be a fantastic night for all to enjoy. More info coming soon.
Tickets: TBC
Our first Family Fun Day for a number of years will be a day for everyone to enjoy. Picnic on the green with snacks and drinks from our café bar and other vendors. Enjoy a performance from local drama, dance, and community arts groups. We may even have a workshop or two that you could join in with.
Tickets: TBC
Performances and entertainment to be announced in due course.
Tickets: TBC
Performances and entertainment to be announced in due course.
Tickets: TBC
Our craft fair returns, offering you the opportunity to purchase home made and personalised items crafted locally by members of our own community.
The café bar will be open throughout the day offering refreshments, snacks, cakes, and light bites.
Tickets: F.O.C
Enjoy exploring the stunning gardens of Much Wenlock as our green thumbed community open their beautiful garden spaces. Maps will be available to download on our website and to collect from the café bar on the Church Green.
Tickets: TBC
All events with a charge are ticketed. Valid tickets must be presented to gain access. Tickets may be available on the door depending on demand. Events marked as 18+ may require proof of ID to be presented at the gate, if ID cannot be presented entry may be refused and your ticket invalidated. Refunds will not be issued in the event of refusal to allow entry. Festival Volunteers reserve the right to refuse entry or remove individuals from events at their own discretion. This will be considered on a case by case basis and will be justified based on following the festival code of conduct, health and safety guidelines, and any other stipulations of acts or artists on site at the time.
We cannot run Much Wenlock Festival without the kind and unwavering support of our sponsors. This year we would like to thank the following for enabling the festival to happen:
Every festival we rely on the support of our community to help us. Without our volunteers, the festival simply would not happen. Thank you just is not enough to say to our amazing volunteers.
Also without our generous donations from community members, businesses, and local providers we would not be able to hold such wonderful raffles, tombola's, etc. This year we offer our thanks to the following for their gracious donations:
Please reach us at if you cannot find an answer to your question.
Much Wenlock Festival was founded in 1984. It started as a small group of individuals who were passionate about creating a place to champion and celebrate local arts and culture. Over the years, it has grown into a thriving community activity with a strong presence in Much Wenlock. Early Festival activities were hosted in locations across the town, with Shakespeare performed in the Priory Ruins, carnival activities in the Town Square and Church Green, and Poetry readings / Story Telling taking place in local cafés. Over the years the Festival has evolved to meet the changing environments of our town as well as to accommodate different elements of arts and culture. We are now primarily hosted on the Church Green and try our best to provide a wide variety of acts and performances to enrich our community. In 2010 the Much Wenlock Festival became a Charity, as such we submit financial records annually, and are constituted formally.
We host the Festival every two years, usually within June. We hold committee meetings at least quarterly, with a minimum of two Trustee meetings, and our annual general meeting within a financial year. Our AGM tends to fall in the autumn which is open to the public to attend and gain an understanding of what we do as a committee and charity.
Anyone who shares our values and is interested in supporting local arts and culture can join Much Wenlock Festival as either a committee member or volunteer. We welcome individuals from all backgrounds and ages, and are always in need of support to ensure the operational activities of the Festival run smoothly. We have a variety of responsibilities our volunteers can help with, including supporting our marketing and ticket sales, working in the café bar, helping performers and artists on site, supporting site management etc. If you are interested in joining us as a volunteer or committee member, please email muchwenlockfestivals@gmail.com
As a charity, we are committed to supporting our local arts and culture community. We are currently looking to establish a community fund that could support local arts and culture based opportunities, groups, and activities within Much Wenlock and surrounding areas.
In 2024 we hope to be opening the Much Wenlock Trinity Church Reflection Garden, which has been funded by the Much Wenlock Festival and includes a stunning sculpture within a peaceful space in the grounds of the Church Green.
We seek to utilise the Festival as a way to promote local businesses, increase tourism in the area, and promote opportunities for local artists, performers, and groups to participate in a Festival. We aim to enrich our community with cultural opportunities, and hope that by doing so we are supporting our local community to thrive.
Each performance or event is ticketed separately, with links to our online ticket sales platform within each of the event information blocks in the Festival Calendar section of our website. You can also purchase tickets in person at Penny Farthing on the Town Square in Much Wenlock.
We are all volunteers but are happy to help when we can.