There’s a cracker of a festive season in store this Christmas in Aylesbury town centre! Get into the Christmas spirit by attending the fabulous Christmas Lights Switch On, this year featuring live performances and guest appearances from the Waterside Theatre’s panto Beauty and The Beast. Starting at 5.30pm, there’ll be lots of entertainment including live [...]
Aylesbury town centre is heralding the start of Christmas on Thursday 14 November with the annual Lights Switch On. The event will include stage entertainment hosted by Mix 96, which will take place between 5.30pm and 8pm in Aylesbury’s historic Market Square, along with a street food court and a funfair in Kingsbury which will [...]
Thousands of visitors enjoyed a fun and sun-filled day at the eagerly-anticipated return of Waterside Festival, Aylesbury’s fantastic family-friendly canal festival which took place at Waterside canal basin in Aylesbury Garden Town last Saturday. Warmly welcomed back for its second year, the sun-drenched canal basin provided the perfect backdrop for all of the community festival’s [...]
Waterside Festival is lucky to be hosted around Aylesbury’s revitalised canalside public space, and with the day of festivity fast approaching, Saturday 14 September 11am-5.30pm, let’s take a moment to appreciate the huge amount of support received from Waterside Festival partners! Before last year’s festival splashed onto the scene, Aylesbury’s canal basin was a little-known [...]
Paralympian Derek Derenalagi will be launching this year’s Waterside Festival, which takes place at Aylesbury’s canal basin on Saturday 14 September. Derek was injured by a roadside bomb in Helmand Province in July 2007 while serving with the Worcestershire Sherwood Foresters Regiment. One of the first soldiers to get support from the Help for Heroes charity, Derek [...]
Gather around the stage at this year’s Waterside Festival and be enthralled by an array of performing arts spectacles, showcasing to festival-goers the best of Aylesbury Vale’s talent. On Saturday 14 September, 11am-5.30pm, audiences can suspend disbelief and enter a dizzying world of music and dance, celebrating everything from Bhangra and Indian dance to African [...]
Back by popular demand, this year’s Waterside Festival, taking place on Saturday 14 September, 11am – 5.30pm at Waterside canal basin in Aylesbury town centre, will see the return of the much-loved, splash-tastic, water-based activities. The free canoeing, kayaking and paddle boarding sessions are the first returning favourites to be welcomed back to this year’s [...]
Aylesbury Market was once again extremely proud to take part in the national ‘Love Your Local Market’ campaign, which ran from 17-31 May. Foodie Friday Live provided tasters and cooking demonstrations and launched a fantastic fortnight of different market activities. These included performances by vintage vocal harmony trio The Bluebird Belles and The Mk Swing [...]
Aylesbury sees the return of the national Love Your Local Market celebrations, and the markets are joining in with their usual passion and enthusiasm. The Love Your Local Market celebrations swing into action on Friday 17 May, and run until Friday 31 May. Visitors will be able to enjoy a selection of special live events [...]
Respect for Animals, Britain’s leading anti-fur organisation, has praised Aylesbury Vale District Council (AVDC) for banning the sale of real fur from all council-run markets in the district. The council has officially signed up to the Fur Free Markets scheme and has been given a 5-star rating from Respect for Animals - making it one [...]