Looking for an event to feature? Here’s our pick of the best events coming up in June. As ever, please check individual websites for the latest details.
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There’s plenty more to experience, for details on the full range of events check out each destination’s What’s On pages:
SO Festival
Lincolnshire’s free, international festival of outdoor arts is back this summer. Featuring everything from poetic puppetry and daring dancing to immersive installations, this year’s SO Festival (14 – 16 June) once again brings street-theatre to Mablethorpe and Skegness. The free to attend event will see local and international performers take over the pavements, parks and promenades of the Lincolnshire coast.
Hampshire Fizz Fest marks its 10th anniversary
Hampshire will again showcase its premier wine makers at The Vineyards of Hampshire Fizz Fest at The Grange in Alresford, on 23 June. As well as marking the 10th anniversary of the flagship event, for the first time it will also coincide with English Wine Week (15 to 23 June). Wines from all eight members of the association will be on show at the event.
Silver Ghosts, Phantoms and Spectres gather for a haunting event
The Spirit of Ecstasy is rolling into Burghley House and Gardens. The Elizabethan house will once more provide a stately backdrop for what is widely regarded as the world’s largest gathering of Rolls-Royce and Bentley cars. In what must be one of the most glamorous events in the motoring calendar, around 100 of the luxury cars will grace the grounds for the flagship annual Enthusiasts Club Annual Rally (21-23 June).
Join a safari in East Yorkshire
One of the highlights of the Sledmere House events calendar, the Deer Safari offers an opportunity over two weekends in June to see some of the red deer bred on the estate up close in their natural habitat. Transported in tractors and custom-made trailers it’s a chance to see the does and their new calves. New for 2024 are Deer Safari Evenings with BBQ (13 and 14 June). Daytime safaris cost £4.50 adults and £2 children, plus normal admission. Evening BBQ safari must be pre-booked and tickets cost £22 adults, £18 children.
Say “cheese”, in Staffordshire
Cheese lovers are in for a treat as one of the UK’s largest cheese and food festivals – and the world’s biggest dairy awards – returns to Staffordshire. Love Cheese Live is back on 28 and 29 June with a mix of celebrity chef demonstrations, artisan producers and hands-on workshops. Among celebrity chefs will be James Martin, while entertainment includes former Strictly Come Dancing pro AJ Pritchard and his Dazzling Dance Spectacular. Tickets from £5.
What a Malarkey in Hull
The Big Malarkey Festival returns to Hull’s East Park this June with a seventh helping of family fun to celebrate children’s books and stories. While schools enjoy activities during the week, a glorious weekend of book-related merriment is open to all 22-23 June, featuring artists, authors, illustrators, performers, poets, writers and musicians. Tickets for each day cost £3 per child and £6 for adults.
Celebrating the sea in Grimsby
Celebrating Grimsby’s seafaring heritage and future relationship with the sea, Festival of the Sea returns to the Lincolnshire port town on Saturday 22 June 2024 for the fourth year running. The free event showcases local and national talent with performance and hands-on activities taking place across the town centre and waterfront, with live music, plus arts and crafts.
Calling all Jane Austen fans…
Celebrating the life and times of one of Hampshire’s best loved daughters, Jane Austen, June will see the Jane Austen Regency Week return to the village of Chawton, where she lived, and the market town of Alton, 22 – 30 June 2024. Among highlights of the annual festival is Alton’s annual Regency Day (22 June), when visitors can dress up in their best Regency finery.
Popular Abbey Quarter Tours are back for another season
A walking tour exploring the heart of medieval Reading, led by official Museum tour guides, has returned for another season. Starting in the Museum’s Story of Reading Gallery and continuing outdoors, it also offers exclusive access to the Abbey Gateway – the grand entrance to the Abbot’s Lodgings which became Queen Elizabeth I’s royal residence, and later the school where Jane Austen studied as a girl.
Same Wold, same old Walking Festival in East Yorkshire
The Wold Rangers Walking Festival in East Yorkshire is back for 2024 and will be staged between 16 and 23 June. With a week’s-worth of guided walks and events, it’s promising something for every type of walker – from short accessible walks, boots & beer walks and even a challenging ‘Wold Rangers Way in a Day’ 44-mile walk. Family geocaching and local history walks are also in the programme.
