Events Around Minehead

Our dazzling 16th. Christmas Tree Festival is a must ‘go to’ event. With over 50 trees, all donated and decorated by local clubs, charities and organisations, the church will look really beautiful, and will get Christmas off to a sparkling start.

Join us at our annual Christmas fayre at St Donat’s Castle, UWC Atlantic College and browse a wonderful collection of over 50 food, drink and craft stalls to celebrate the festive season. This fayre offers a mix of traders from family friendly and charity stalls to luxury handmade crafts and gifts.

The Llantwit Major Christmas light switch on will have charity and food stalls, entertainment, live music and Santa in his Grotto - all leading up to the light switch Town Hall Car Park. Location: Llantwit Major Town Hall CF61 1SD.

Join us at our annual Christmas fayre at St Donat’s Castle, UWC Atlantic College and browse a wonderful collection of over 50 food, drink and craft stalls to celebrate the festive season. This fayre offers a mix of traders from family friendly and charity stalls to luxury handmade crafts and gifts.

On Saturday 24th the event starts with a market filled with gift ideas, food and drinks. Keep yourself warm with warm food and beverages and inspire yourself with an array of local crafters and retailers! There will be fun for the whole family!

Barry Town Council’s Annual 2K Santa Fun Run is back and this year we will be adding a 2K Doggy Dash! As usual, we will be hosting the 2K Family Santa Fun Run which will start at 11:00. All adults will receive a Santa suit to complete the course in and all participants will receive a medal.

One of Britain’s treasured musicians, Steven Osborne’s piano recitals are carefully crafted and critically acclaimed without exception. His insightful and idiomatic interpretations of diverse repertoire show an immense musical depth. Poulenc: Debussy: Prokofiev: Schubert

The Madassa Soul Band can trace their musical lineage back to 1983 and has been host to many of Cardiff and South Wales’ best musicians.

This sequel to ’Gnomeo & Juliet’ follows the garden gnomes as they move to London. However, as soon as they arrive at their new home their fellow garden ornaments suddenly disappear.

In a not-too-distant dystopian future, an outbreak of dog flu has caused havoc in Japan, leading to all dogs being quarantined on a deserted island full of rubbish, citing fears of the effect on the human population.

A Cowbridge institution, the annual Reindeer Parade is a firm family favourite that caters for kids and the big kids in all of us!

The Vale of Glamorgan Farmers market at Cowbridge is normally held on the 1st & 3rd Saturdays of every month (except Deceber & January) at Arthur John’s Car Park, 43 High Street, Cowbridge CF71 7AB.

The Vale of Glamorgan Farmers market at Penarth is normally held on the fourth Saturday of the month at Westbourne School, 4 Hickman Road, Penarth CF64 2EZ.

Deck the halls with a handmade wreath! Join florist Jan Waters from JW Blooms for a workshop at Hestercombe to make a beautiful Christmas wreath to hang on your door at home.

Come and have a go at skating on the undercover skate rink at Hestercombe this Christmas (it’s artificial so you won’t get too chilly!) Housed in a magical winter marquee, you can skate whatever the weather and enjoy some festive refreshments rink side too.

Can you help Hetty the Hedgehog get ready for her Christmas party? There are invitations to write, decorations to buy and party bags to fill. Enjoy some fresh air as you follow Hestercombe’s festive family trail around the wintry gardens. For more information, please email info@hestercombe.

Expert willow weaver Sarah Webb will guide you in creating a beautiful willow deer at Hestercombe. Take it home and display the deer in your garden or use it as a festive decoration.

Hestercombe’s historic Column Room Restaurant will be open for special evening suppers on Friday 7th, 14th and 21st December.

A Fantastic Christmas production with live music, Puppetry, Multi-media and audience interaction. A Young boy receives a collection of Toy Soldiers for his birthday, one of the soldiers only has one leg but is as steadfast and strong as the rest.

Father Christmas is taking time out of his busy Christmas schedule to take up residence at Hestercombe! Visit Hestercombe this Christmas to enjoy a magical Father Christmas experience where every child can meet Santa and receive their own special toy.

Enjoy this classic fairy tale at Hestercombe about a tin soldier’s love for a paper ballerina. Filled with puppetry and live music, this is a show for all the family to enjoy. The Tin Soldier is being performed on two dates – Saturday 8th and Sunday 9th December at 3pm.

In his last days, Adolf Hitler raged in his bunker that he had been betrayed by his own people, defeated from the inside. In part, he was right. By 1945, his armies were being crushed on all fronts, his regime collapsing with many fleeing retribution for their crimes.

A groundbreaking new book from the author of The Running Sky and Four Fields, Landfill confronts our waste-making species through the extraordinary and fascinating life of gulls,and the people who watch them. Original, compelling and unflinching, it is the nature book for our times.

A ‘potted’ history of gardening told through 50 innovations. From secateurs to seed banks, from hybrid plants to herbaceous borders, these are the ideas that have changed the way we garden today. Abigail Willis is an arts and gardening writer. She has written about urban gardens, and London gardens, in particular.

The cricket ball is the swinging, bouncing, spinning heart of the glorious game that gives it its name.