Southbourne Food & Fun Festival Welcome to the 2026
Welcome to the very first Southbourne Food & Fun Festival –a vibrant celebration of great food, creativity and community in the heart of Southbourne.
This free festival brings together delicious local food and drink, fantastic entertainment and handson activities for all ages. Enjoy live music and performances from The Hush Club, discover emerging local talent on our Introducing Stage, and get involved with growing and making workshops, pebble painting, and other creative activities happening throughout the day.
The event is proudly delivered by Stir Events CIC in partnership with Rotary Club of Westbourne and Boscombe and Southbourne Rotary, with valued support from Dorset Food & Drink, champions of Dorset’s outstanding food and drink producers.
This unique event also showcases Rotary’s Seven Areas of Focus, with charities, organisations and community groups present across the festival so visitors can learn more about the work Rotary supports both locally and globally.
• Promoting Peace
• Fighting Disease
• Providing Clean Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene
• Saving Mothers and Children
• Supporting Education
• Growing Local Economies
• Protecting the Environment
Please look out for stalls and exhibitions where you can find out more and join in activities!
Alongside this, explore our artisan market, featuring talented local makers, producers and small businesses.
Please enjoy the festival and celebrate the wonderful spirit of our community.
Team Stir!
Exhibition Kitchen band stand
During the day:
See posts on social media and posters at the event for confirmed timings
Children’s Cook Along Sessions & basic cooking skills
Ryan Perry Crafty Beer Boy
Wine and food pairing with products from local producers
Sahar Ismail Layali's Cuisine
Rita Satti Unity International Cafe
Emma Sclanders
Wild and Ginger
Local Southbourne business
Idelica paella showcase on their stand
Food & Drink Chats
Discover the stories behind the flavours at our Meet the Makers sessions, where you can hear directly from passionate local producers.
Meet the Women behind the hospitality business
Entertainment
Live music and dance on the introducing stage!
11:00 The Real Deal
12:30 A Different Storie
14:00 Bombay Dance Club
15:00 Murphy's lore
16:30 Room 18
The Hush Club playing your favourite tunes!
Room 18
Bombay Dance Club
Children's Activities
Peace Pebble Painting - with Rotary
Children's Fairground rides
Facepainting
Learn to grow with the Parks Foundation
Murphy's lore
Health & Wellbeing zone
Kara Jackson - Talk on the Bowen technique
Meet many more charities and businesses who work in this area such as:
Step by Step Partnership LTD, Life Chiropractic, Macmillan Caring Locally, WithYou, U3a, Wave Project, Dorset HealthCare Learning Disability
Screening Practitioner and many more!
Sobo Fitness showcase
Bombay Dance Club
Soil and pollination talkMonica, Westbourne Rotary
Aqua Box showcase exhibit
How to grow and engage with nature – Parks Foundation
How to make – Haberdasherdoo –Southbourne Grove
Recycle your old tools for charity –bring them to the festival! Rotary are working with Tools For Self Reliance! https://www.tfsr.org
Bring your old bike! Rotary works with Re-Cycle to collect donated bikes.
Which are then cleaned and safety checked before being sent to rural Africa. This initiative helps to provide improved access to clean water and transportation for essential goods within African communities.
The Aqua-aid box: making life easier for people who have lost everything.
Since its formation in 1992, Aquabox has distributed more than 125,000 Aqua-aid humanitarian aid boxes to countries around the world suffering from natural or man-made disasters, helping hundreds of thousands of people in times of crisis.
