Winsham Street Fair 2026



WINSHAM STREET FAIR- 2026

Our grateful thanks go to the previous Street Fair Committee for their hard work fundraising to put on the

 successful 2024 Street Fair in June.

Following the AGM on 19th September, a new Committee was formed:

Chair                                  Harriet Dougherty

Vice Chair                          Alison Llewellyn

Treasurer                           Paul Anderson

Secretary                           Kathy Everard 

Caroline Buckley, Jenny Clampett, Rosie Clampett, Gordon Judge, John Llewellyn, Jayne Smith, Sarah MacEvansonya and Hefina Washbourne were all elected at the AGM to join the committee.

Anyone is welcome to attend our monthly meetings, please contact any of the Committee members above for the dates or contact us on our Facebook page.

At our first meeting, a decision was made to postpone the Race Night scheduled for 16th November until next year.

The Committee also made the decision to not to proceed with the Calendar fundraiser.  Unfortunately, sales have fallen over the last two years with fewer people having paper calendars.  As there is insufficient sponsorship at this stage it has been deemed an unprofitable fundraiser.  This has been a difficult decision as we know there are several people who do use it and enjoy the pictures of Winsham parish.

 

CHRISTMAS TREE LIGHTING

 Sunday 30th November 2025-6.30pm preceded by Santa's Grotto

 in the Jubilee Hall 4.30-5.45pm.

Winsham Street fair Committee invite you to the lighting of the Winsham Christmas Tree on Sunday 30th November.

Mince pies and mulled wine will be served  from 6.00pm, and Chard Brass Concert Band will be playing festive music.

Santa will be in his grotto in the Jubilee Hall from 4.30-5.45pm. Please come along and say 'Hello' to him; there will be a gift for children (no charge!).

Caroline Buckley-Committee Member 

 

 

 

 

Winsham’s Street Fair has its roots in the 13th century, and even now, seven hundred and  sixty-one years later, Winsham’s 21st Century residents still know that this biennial  celebration is a good day out!

When Athelm , the Bishop of Bath and Wells, awarded the charter, in1262,  to hold an annual

 street fair in Winsham on the 29th June, on the Feast of St. Peter & Paul, did he know what he

 was what he was starting?  

He was later to  become the Archbishop of Canterbury; just a coincidence or was it his reward?

In the 21st Century, we have Winsham Street Fair  celebrated on the last Saturday of June, every

two years.

The  present cycle of Winsham Street Fairs started in 1985, with a theme based on the two

 hundred year’s anniversary of  the Duke of Monmouth’s ‘Pitchfork’ rebellion.  

Each Winsham Street Fair has a different theme.

To view pictures of the seventeen Winsham Street Fairs since1985
CLICK HERE