BEVERLEY FOOD FESTIVAL RETURNS FOR A 14TH TASTE-TERRIFIC YEAR!
Fri 4th October 2019
When Beverley Town Council organised the first Food Festival in 2006, little did they know it would go on to be an annual success enjoyed by thousands of residents and visitors alike. The original idea was to bring a few producers from
Beverley’s rural hinterland into the town centre to help celebrate local food. So, on a crisp Sunday morning, thirty-five producers set up their stalls along with a small Food Theatre. It proved to be a big success for the Town Council and has become an award-winning event!
This year 120-plus stalls will be there, alongside the well-loved Food Theatre Marquee. Thousands of people will attend this free community event, bringing a welcome economic boost, not just to the food producers, but also to retailers and the
local hospitality trade.
This year, students from East Riding College are joining in to help in the Food Theatre which is sponsored by the East Riding College, EY Events, Hull & East Yorkshire Hospitality Association and Beverley Town Council and John Cosham will be giving talks on food-waste and composting in line with environmental themes. Additionally, the Mayor of Beverley, Cllr Duncan Jack, will be hosting a charity stall raising funds for the East Yorkshire Foodbank, profiling the need within our area. We are also to be joined by a celebrity Yorkshire guest chef Nigel Brown from his Academy in Barton-on-Humber.
Starting at 9.30am on Sunday 6th October, with an official opening by The Mayor of Beverley Councillor Duncan Jack at 10.00am, the festival runs until 4.30pm, with a wide range of different foods from around the region available to purchase and enjoy. Shoppers can find everything from locally reared meat and traditional preserves, to tasty tangy cheese and real Yorkshire ale. One of the favourite festival sights is hundreds of people walking around the streets of Beverley, with sticks of freshly bought local sprouts over their shoulders! Additional to these traditional stalls will be some carefully selected hot food
venders, giving people the chance to taste some terrific street food not usually available in our market town.
Once again, the Food Theatre Marquee will feature a host of local chefs ready to whip some ingredients from stall holders into delicious and exciting dishes with the hotly-contested HEYHA Copper Saucepan Apprentice Chef competition featuring two local aspiring apprentice chefs. Familiar festival friends including Professor Fiddlesticks, Bandanarama, the All For One Choir and Beverley Garland Dancers will be out and about to entertain around the town, with Beverley FM and BBC Radio Humberside broadcasting live. The Beer Festival at St Mary’s and the Gentle Festival at Toll Gavel United Church are also
happening making the weekend a real community celebration.
The beauty of the entertainment is that it’s all locally home-grown just like the food! The Mayor of Beverley Cllr Duncan Jack said, “This award-winning festival has really put Beverley on the foodie map! Thanks to Beverley Town Council officers and collaborative partners for their hard work in pulling this event together. It coincides with a visit from our ‘twins’ from Nogentsur-
Oise in France, too! Beverley Town Councillors will be there all day, so do come and say ‘hello’ to us!” Town Clerk Helen Watson said “The Beverley Food Festival is a calendar event which residents and visitors look forward to each year. Beverley
was founded around 721 by St John and it became a town of sanctuary and pilgrimage for many; here there would have been feasting and music within the community. In 2019 we are still able to offer a warm welcome to Beverley with this free community event to continue the long-established customs of old. It does have something to suit all tastes. We hope the idea whets your appetite and you will join us for a family day of food, festivities and fun!”
For more information contact tel. 01482 874096,
www.beverley.gov.uk or clerk@beverley.gov.uk
