Get ready for gastronomic delights as Beccles Food and Drink Festival makes a highly anticipated return in 2024, providing an entertaining and affordable day out for both foodies and families. 

Celebrating the finest artisan food and drink from the local area and wider East Anglia, the free-to-attend event, now in it’s ninth year, is scheduled for Saturday 25th May.  With over 60 stalls based in the centre of the vibrant market town, the event runs from 10 am till 4 pm and will also include delicious world street food, music and children’s entertainment. 

The Local Flavours mobile cookery theatre, a new feature in 2023, will his year be returning, with sponsorship contributions from East Coast College, Beccles Town Council and Fen Farm Dairy, offering aspiring chefs and bakers culinary inspiration from local chefs and students of East Coast College in Lowestoft. 

East Suffolk One Radio will be transmitting from beside Beccles Tower during this years Festival.

This year The local Community Rail Partnerships are offering special reduced fares on trains running from both Ipswich and Lowestoft to the Festival. Details can be found here.

A free Park & Ride shuttle service will run throughout the event from Beccles Quay, where additional parking will be available to supplement the ample town centre car parks. 

Also this year local businesses have been asked if they would like to provide any special offers on Festival Day. A list of those offers can be found here.