A Bit about the festival

The 2026 Steyning Festival will take place between 22nd and 31st May. Acts are currently being booked and will be announced in due course. We are now looking to sign up volunteers and Friends; for further details or to express an interest, please contact volunteers@steyningfestival.co.uk or friends@steyningfestival.co.uk.

As with past festivals, we will have the Big Top at our Fletchers Croft site, as well as a host of smaller venues around Steyning and beyond. The programme will once again feature a broad range of acts and performances from the worlds of comedy, theatre, literature and the visual arts, plus walks and tours, community and green days and much more besides.

As with previous years, the Festival will be focused primarily on the communities of Steyning, Bramber, Upper Beeding, Ashington and Washington, with a mixture of local talent added into the mix of professional acts. And we will be running our popular bar, café and food outlets as always.

We pride ourselves on being one of the largest (if not THE largest) festival in the UK run entirely by volunteers, with a small band of trustees to oversee the Festival as a whole. As always we will be dependent on our band of amazing volunteers who make everything work for us before, during and after the festival. It’s never too early to join up, so please head for the Volunteers page for more information on how to sign up for the 2026 festival.

For each festival, we also depend on our band of Friends, who help to sponsor the programme of events. We will be revamping our Friends offer for 2026, so please keep track of developments through the Friends page and email address.

And in the meantime, take a look at the gallery of photographs of the 2024 Festival that are dotted around the website.

With best wishes for a brilliant rest of 2025, and our hope that we will be welcoming as many of you as possible to a Festival event in 2026!

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