Welcome

… to the Fairford and Lechlade Food and Drink Festival Website!

BREAKING NEWS!
Fairford & Lechlade Food & Drink Festivals have been commended in the Action for Market Towns Awards in the Business & Economy Category for the high quality of their Food & Drink Festival project. The Festivals will be used an example of best practice for other Market Towns.

Another Tasty Event in Fairford and Lechlade
Organised by the Fairford & Lechlade Business Club

The Lechlade Food & Drink Festival was a resounding success and enjoyed by hundreds of people – locals, visitors and celebrities!! See report below and look at the Gallery to see photos of the event.

The Fairford Food & Drink Festival will be on

Sunday 3rd June in Fairford Market Place 10am-4pm

We already have a fantastic range of stalls lined up for Fairford as well as cookery demos throughout the day sponsored by The Deli in Fairford. Musical entertainment will be from local lass, Jackie Cribley.

Take a look at our Stall Holders page or Gallery for more information.

Or contact us via email at admin@flbc.org.uk.

Lechlade Food & Drink Festival 2012
The start of the Festival was graced by the Vicar of Lechlade, the Rev Andrew Cinnamond, who led the Church Choir in a celebratory hymn for the Festival and then blessed the event. This was followed by new Club Chairman, Andrew Pywell, officially declaring the 3rd Lechlade Food & Drink Festival open.

One of the aims of the Fairford & Lechlade Food & Drink Festivals is to encourage more visitors to the two Market Towns and, with the sun shining all day, hundreds of people descended on Lechlade Market Place to enjoy the variety of food and drink on offer. A large group of visiting Japanese tourists sampled the Cotswold wares whilst snapping away with their cameras to capture the quintessentially English scene. A number of American back-packers walking the length of the River Thames from London to its source stopped off for a much needed breakfast and thought that the Festival was “awesome” and then lingered as long as possible before resuming the final part of their epic journey.

A wonderful atmosphere was created by the happy, foot-tapping music, supplied throughout the day by the Ripples team, and which prompted many of the visitors to the Market Place to start dancing and singing along.

It was a pity that the promised Chelmsford Morris Dancers could not attend due to the fact that the camp site where they had planned to stay was waterlogged and, therefore, they had to sadly abandon their weekend break in the Cotswolds. The Gifford’s Circus Fairground Organ developed a gremlin in the works and was not able to attend either. But super model, Kate Moss, made an impromptu visit to the Food & Drink Festival with daughter Lila Grace and three friends. She tasted many of the goods on offer and made quite a few purchases before hurriedly escaping the many paparazzi, who were following her every move.

Many stall holders were thrilled to have completely sold out of all their goodies before the end of the Festival and praised the “lovely customers in Lechlade”. Richard Truscott from Lechlade Garden Centre, the Food & Drink’s main sponsor, provided leek and potato soup, hot beef stew and scones for the price of a voluntary donation to the Bristol charity Above & Beyond.  At the end of the day, all the soup and stew had gone and Richard had raised more than £200 for the charity, which provides funds for Bristol’s nine central hospitals.

The Business Club had a stall this year selling tea and biscuits but, as the weather improved and got warmer, Trish Poole and Madeleine Tierney made an executive decision to diversify and go into business selling Pimms and strawberries as well. This proved a great success and helped to cover the costs of the event. The Club also held a raffle with prizes donated by Lechlade Garden Centre and The Trout Inn, Lechlade. Kevin North won the basket of fruit donated by The Trout and Tracy Hoefnagels won the basket of goodies supplied by Lechlade Garden Centre.

If you are interested in booking your own stall, please download a Booking Form here.
If you are interested in holding an in-house event, please download a Booking Form – In-House Event.
Or contact us via email at admin@flbc.org.uk.

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