Dorset Food & Arts Festival 2026
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The Dorset Food & Arts Festival 2026 returns to the Great Field in Poundbury- right in the heart of Dorchester on Saturday the 1st of August!
For one day, this beautiful green space transforms into our own little avenue of Dorset creativity, filled with independent food producers, local drink brands, artists, makers, growers and craftspeople from across the county.
Expect great local food and drink, handmade pieces, thoughtful finds, live music, conversation, creativity and a warm Dorset atmosphere throughout the day.
This is a celebration of the people behind Dorset’s food, farming, fishing, art and craft culture, the small businesses, family producers and talented creatives who help shape our county and keep high streets, markets and local communities thriving.
Free to enter and open to everyone, the festival is a chance to explore, connect, support local and enjoy a day shaped by flavour, creativity and community spirit.
There’s bound to be something to surprise and delight you. It’s the perfect opportunity to shop for a wide selection of delicious products and artisan crafts.
Grab a bite to eat and enjoy a tipple as you shop with local stallholders, producers, and makers - offering tasty food and drink, handmade gifts, art, and beautiful crafts.
The icing on the cake is that when you shop at events like this, you get to MEET the amazing people who make, bake, farm, grow, cook, preserve, pickle, and serve you with all this local loveliness - many of them award-winning!
Pop the date in your diary and please mark yourself as 'Attending' on the this Facebook Event.
This way our lovely stallholders will be able to bring enough goodies to keep you going and minimise wastage.
It's a pleasure to introduce our stallholders who will have been busy making baking, farming, crafting, sewing, grinding, painting, potting, carving, and cooking.
Ready to serve you with food, drinks, art, crafts, local loveliness and entertainment!
Abbotsbury Stone Ornaments
Acres Down Farm
Ali’s Shawls
Artie Flora
Aurora Light Photography
Ava White Art
Barcelona Spirits
Bambi’s Bakes
Bayside Bakery
Bees Knees Bakes
Bella Buds
Black Ven Distillery
Bournemouth University
Buckshaw Sweets and Treats
Casterbridge Chiropractic
Catherine Potter Crafts
Cerne Abbas Brewery
Clare a Beau's Home Fragrance
Cherry Tree Preserves
Chris Frost Photography
Charbonnel et Walker Limited
Country Cotton Company
Clemantine Blossom
Curious Kombucha
Curiosity Home Crafts
Dorchester Town Council
Dorset Council - Shared Lives Team
Dorset Council - Fostering Team
Dorset Lamb
David Emery Pottery
Dorset Farm Foods
Dorset Fingerposts
Dorset Nectar Cider
Dorset Shortbread Co.
Dorset Waste
Dorset Wildlife Trust
Dorseteco
Dorset Diabetic Eye Screener
Drift Weymouth
Earth Light Candles
Farm Girl Sausages
Firehouse Pizzeria
Fordington Gin
Fossil Coffee Co. Ltd
Flo & Frankies Fudge
From Dorset With Love
Furleigh Estate
Galiani Glass Art
Grounded Coffee
Hayley’s Bespoke Crafts
Help and Kindness
Huxley Sticks
James Cheese
Jenny Penney Art
Jewellery-Unique
Jurassic Coast Farm Shop
Joe's Folke Craft & Traditional Furniture
Kawaii Crafts UK
Little Waddon Vineyard
Lillie James Designs
LilyPups Dog Boutique
Lizzie Baking Bird
Love Poundbury
lollieandpopsie
May Cottage Goatsmilk Soaps
Marnhull Leathercraft
Madge & Fay Pottery
Mercato Italiano
Morrish & Banham
MooniGooni Glass
Modern Art Distillery
Mure Liqueurs
Nick Jackson Ceramics
Neil's Dorset Preserves
Naomi Ing Art
Noddy’s Cider
Oh So Suzi
Off the Beach & Track
Portland Paella
Portland Pasties
Oxfords Bakery
Olives and Things
Poundbury Rotary
Purbeck Ice Cream
Relenka Sweet Treats
Ridgeway Potters Collective
Roberts Dorset
Rowan B Creative
RSPB
Sally’s Little Beach Hut
SarahJayneJefferies.Art
Sandbanks Jewellery
Shanty Spirit
Sharon Dobson Handmade
Silverwood of Dorset
Sew Loved Keepsakes
Slumbermonkey Designs
South Paddocks
Stripy Art
Suzette’s Crepes
Taste of the Wild
The Biltong Lady
The Book & Bucket Cheese Company
The Compton Candle Company
The Friendly Food Club
The Graceline
The Jam Guy
The Pure Image Works
The Shoal
The Vinyl Van
Tom’s Funky Faces
Utazo Spirits
Vegan Munchies Dorset
Weymouth 51
Weymouth Seafood
White’s Delights
Wobbly Sarnies
Music from 🎶
Blue Bridge -10.00-11.30 am
Dr Jazz -12.00 -1.45 pm
Aaron Carter -2 – 3.30pm
🎤🎧🎤🎹🎸🎺🎷
Travel and Car Parking
Bus Routes
We recommend catching the number 10 or number 6 bus to Poundbury on the day of the Dorset Food & Arts Festival.
The Number 10 bus drops off next to the great field.
Carparks in Poundbury - Disabled Car Parking available at these carparks
Queen Mother Square
Overflow Car Park Behind Waitrose
Buttermarket
Car Park by Garden Centre
Please remember if you are driving to the Dorset Food & Arts Festival, do be respectful to the residents, or block other people’s access. Thank you.
Train
Access to Poundbury from Dorchester South and Dorchester West is very easy, you can jump on a bus or grab a taxi from the station.
Local taxi numbers
Bob Cars 01305 269500
Dorset Cars 01305 250666
A Line Taxi - 01305264747
For one day, this beautiful green space transforms into our own little avenue of Dorset creativity, filled with independent food producers, local drink brands, artists, makers, growers and craftspeople from across the county.
Expect great local food and drink, handmade pieces, thoughtful finds, live music, conversation, creativity and a warm Dorset atmosphere throughout the day.
This is a celebration of the people behind Dorset’s food, farming, fishing, art and craft culture, the small businesses, family producers and talented creatives who help shape our county and keep high streets, markets and local communities thriving.
Free to enter and open to everyone, the festival is a chance to explore, connect, support local and enjoy a day shaped by flavour, creativity and community spirit.
There’s bound to be something to surprise and delight you. It’s the perfect opportunity to shop for a wide selection of delicious products and artisan crafts.
Grab a bite to eat and enjoy a tipple as you shop with local stallholders, producers, and makers - offering tasty food and drink, handmade gifts, art, and beautiful crafts.
The icing on the cake is that when you shop at events like this, you get to MEET the amazing people who make, bake, farm, grow, cook, preserve, pickle, and serve you with all this local loveliness - many of them award-winning!
Pop the date in your diary and please mark yourself as 'Attending' on the this Facebook Event.
This way our lovely stallholders will be able to bring enough goodies to keep you going and minimise wastage.
It's a pleasure to introduce our stallholders who will have been busy making baking, farming, crafting, sewing, grinding, painting, potting, carving, and cooking.
Ready to serve you with food, drinks, art, crafts, local loveliness and entertainment!
Abbotsbury Stone Ornaments
Acres Down Farm
Ali’s Shawls
Artie Flora
Aurora Light Photography
Ava White Art
Barcelona Spirits
Bambi’s Bakes
Bayside Bakery
Bees Knees Bakes
Bella Buds
Black Ven Distillery
Bournemouth University
Buckshaw Sweets and Treats
Casterbridge Chiropractic
Catherine Potter Crafts
Cerne Abbas Brewery
Clare a Beau's Home Fragrance
Cherry Tree Preserves
Chris Frost Photography
Charbonnel et Walker Limited
Country Cotton Company
Clemantine Blossom
Curious Kombucha
Curiosity Home Crafts
Dorchester Town Council
Dorset Council - Shared Lives Team
Dorset Council - Fostering Team
Dorset Lamb
David Emery Pottery
Dorset Farm Foods
Dorset Fingerposts
Dorset Nectar Cider
Dorset Shortbread Co.
Dorset Waste
Dorset Wildlife Trust
Dorseteco
Dorset Diabetic Eye Screener
Drift Weymouth
Earth Light Candles
Farm Girl Sausages
Firehouse Pizzeria
Fordington Gin
Fossil Coffee Co. Ltd
Flo & Frankies Fudge
From Dorset With Love
Furleigh Estate
Galiani Glass Art
Grounded Coffee
Hayley’s Bespoke Crafts
Help and Kindness
Huxley Sticks
James Cheese
Jenny Penney Art
Jewellery-Unique
Jurassic Coast Farm Shop
Joe's Folke Craft & Traditional Furniture
Kawaii Crafts UK
Little Waddon Vineyard
Lillie James Designs
LilyPups Dog Boutique
Lizzie Baking Bird
Love Poundbury
lollieandpopsie
May Cottage Goatsmilk Soaps
Marnhull Leathercraft
Madge & Fay Pottery
Mercato Italiano
Morrish & Banham
MooniGooni Glass
Modern Art Distillery
Mure Liqueurs
Nick Jackson Ceramics
Neil's Dorset Preserves
Naomi Ing Art
Noddy’s Cider
Oh So Suzi
Off the Beach & Track
Portland Paella
Portland Pasties
Oxfords Bakery
Olives and Things
Poundbury Rotary
Purbeck Ice Cream
Relenka Sweet Treats
Ridgeway Potters Collective
Roberts Dorset
Rowan B Creative
RSPB
Sally’s Little Beach Hut
SarahJayneJefferies.Art
Sandbanks Jewellery
Shanty Spirit
Sharon Dobson Handmade
Silverwood of Dorset
Sew Loved Keepsakes
Slumbermonkey Designs
South Paddocks
Stripy Art
Suzette’s Crepes
Taste of the Wild
The Biltong Lady
The Book & Bucket Cheese Company
The Compton Candle Company
The Friendly Food Club
The Graceline
The Jam Guy
The Pure Image Works
The Shoal
The Vinyl Van
Tom’s Funky Faces
Utazo Spirits
Vegan Munchies Dorset
Weymouth 51
Weymouth Seafood
White’s Delights
Wobbly Sarnies
Music from 🎶
Blue Bridge -10.00-11.30 am
Dr Jazz -12.00 -1.45 pm
Aaron Carter -2 – 3.30pm
🎤🎧🎤🎹🎸🎺🎷
Travel and Car Parking
Bus Routes
We recommend catching the number 10 or number 6 bus to Poundbury on the day of the Dorset Food & Arts Festival.
The Number 10 bus drops off next to the great field.
Carparks in Poundbury - Disabled Car Parking available at these carparks
Queen Mother Square
Overflow Car Park Behind Waitrose
Buttermarket
Car Park by Garden Centre
Please remember if you are driving to the Dorset Food & Arts Festival, do be respectful to the residents, or block other people’s access. Thank you.
Train
Access to Poundbury from Dorchester South and Dorchester West is very easy, you can jump on a bus or grab a taxi from the station.
Local taxi numbers
Bob Cars 01305 269500
Dorset Cars 01305 250666
A Line Taxi - 01305264747
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Where is it happening?
The Great Field, Poundbury , DT1 3RH Dorchester, United Kingdom, The Great Field, Peverell Avenue East, Dorchester, DT1 3, United Kingdom
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