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Kingsgate Student Shopping Event

It’s back! Our Student Shopping Event returns Thursday 7th October for one night only!

Join us for a night of exclusive discounts and fantastic freebies!!

Kingsgate, Huddersfield's premier shopping centre invite you to our student only shopping event with over 50 stores, including JD, HMV, Body Shop, New Look, Pandora, River Island, TK Maxx, Stormfront, PNK & Waterstones & more. New to Kingsgate this year is our Independent Quarter, packed with Indie Shops including sweet treats, vegan products, beauty, vintage clothing and more.

Enjoy our pop up bar, tempting street foods, exclusive discounts and freebies. Doors open at 6:00pm but to avoid disappointment make sure you register via the link below to guarantee your place.

Watch past video here!  

This local community event has been attracting people from Huddersfield and the surrounding areas for years and is a permanent fixture on the Bonfire Calendar

Based at Crosland Hill near the Sands House Public House and just above the World Famous Standard Fireworks factory, the event attracts many thousands of people each year. The Bonfire and Firework Display raises thousands of pounds with all proceeds going back into the local community.

Join us for our Bonfire & Firework Extravaganza at the Stafflex Arena.

Cafe, bar and refreshments will be available on the night - everyone is welcome!
Beer tent, children's fairground rides and stalls.

hcmf// is an annual, international festival of contemporary and new music, over 10 days consisting of approximately 50 events, including concerts, music-theatre, dance, multi-media, talks and film, with a related Learning and Participation programme devised and implemented to reflect the artistic programme and respond to regional need.

Brass bands and choirs playing and singing festive songs.

Walkabout entertainment and refreshments from the Winter Festival Tipi.

Lights switched on by the panto dames at 6pm. Look out for the giant Christmas pudding.

• 50 stall market (inside the former Poundworld unit) and outside adjacent.
• Festive food & drink.
• Festive foodie fun walkabout entertainment from the fabulous "Christmas Liver Cottage".
• Face Painting & Children's Magician inside the Queensgate Market
• Children's rides
• Interactive Christmas Window
• Plus more. keep your eyes peeled!
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Festive Fun & Music, Santa's Grotto,
Festive Food & Drink!
Parade
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Come and Meet Santa at The Kingsgate Shopping Centre

Booking is not mandatory, but arrive early to avoid disappointment!
Photo packages are available for an additional fee. See Grotto Elves for more information.

Mission Christmas - Cash for Kids Kingsgate Shopping Centre with Pulse1 Radio

BE A SECRET SANTA FOR LOCAL CHILDREN THIS CHRISTMAS

Please buy an extra gift for Mission Christmas if you can, and we'll make sure that it gets to a disadvantaged child so they'll wake up to something under the tree on Christmas morning. All gifts should be new and unwrapped.

Kingsgate Drop Off Point is Bagel Factory.

Huddersfield Winter Festival is returning to St George's Square complete with the hugely popular Scandinavian teepee.

More than fifty bands will be competing across all sections seeking the honour of representing Yorkshire at the finals of the National Brass Band Championships of Great Britain. With some of the finest Bands in Britain such as Black Dyke, Brighouse and Rastrick, Grimethorpe Colliery, Carlton Main and many others all competing in the Championship Section, few contests are so fiercely competitive.

Welcome to Huddersfield St. Patrick's Day Parade Celebration 2022 - the World's Second Shortest St. Patrick's Day Parade! (that we know of...) at 32m - 1 meter for each County of Ireland, from the Station Steps to The Harold Wilson Statue!

The Celebration in the Square will include:
Traditional Irsh music and Dance, featuring:
The Francis Cassidy School of Irish Dancing
Irish Centre Set Dancers
St. Patrick's School Choir
Across the Moone (modern Irish Duo)
Giants Causeway (Irish Rock Band)

The Celebration will include a Bar and Food Vendors in The Square.

In addition, a display of 'come and have a go' Gaelic Football, with the Brothers Pearse GAA is aso planned.

Live from the centre of Huddersfield

Huddersfield Literature Festival (HLF) is an award-winning 10-day Festival held annually in March. A blended Festival of 50+ digital, outdoor and venue-based events held online and at accessible spaces in Huddersfield, HLF champions accessibility, diversity and under-represented groups.

Showcasing emerging writers and artists alongside major names, the Festival offers a diverse programme of author talks, workshops, discussion topics, performance poetry, multi-arts performances, wellbeing projects, events for young people and family friendly events.

Golcar Lily Day is in the dynamic village of Golcar, on the edge of Huddersfield where the locals are known as Golcar Lilies. The local village fete, has an art exhibition, face painting for the children and fun and events for all ages.

Colne Valley Museum will be open all day offering children's make-it-and-take-it-home activities as well as baking the famous Golcar Lily Loaf in the Victorian kitchen. There will be ongoing craft demonstrations throughout the day and delicious homemade cakes etc on sale in the cafe.

Golcar Lily Day takes over Golcar village each year bringing live music, dancing, stalls, food and drink, children's activities and more.

The village fete also boasts a parade, competitions, beer tent, morris dancers, tractor pull.

A fun day out for all the family.

The Yorkshire Motorsport Festival has evolved both from the organisers' extraordinary passion for all things vehicle-related and their frustration at the lack of large-scale motorsports events in the North of England. The initial concept for the Festival rapidly evolved into far more than a historic Hillclimb.

It is now an all-out entertainment extravaganza with something for everyone to see and do. Live music, shopping, sheep shows, a fairground, fine food and drinks, are all on offer for Festival ticket holders.

As in the past there will be games, rides, food stalls and much more. There is also musical treats. We have usually been very lucky with the weather and lots of ice cream has been consumed on the day!

One of the UK’s Largest Open Art Exhibitions, Featuring over 400 exhibitors and over 2,000 artworks, plus dozens of fringe venues across the local area with thousands more works of art and craft. Holmfirth Artweek is a local event with a national reputation.

The majority of the exhibitors are from this area but large numbers of visitors come from all over the country to view and to buy. It is astounding how much artistic talent there is locally and it is this that makes the event such a success every year.

We're really looking forward to bringing back Meltham Memories this year!

This year, the theme is 'Best of British' - as part of celebrating The Queen's Platinum Jubilee. We'll have The Beatles and Oasis performing at our evening event - and we'd love to see you there!

RAISING FUNDS FOR HUDDERSFIELD YMCA R.U.F.C AND OTHER LOCAL CHARITIES

1.00pm: Join us in Spa Park for some great stalls, activities, food, drink and entertainment.
2.15pm: Near The Little Bridge - entertainment from Slubbing Billy's North West Morris and Huddersfield and Ripponden Brass Band.
3.00pm: The ducks will leave the village and race to the finish line at Spa Park.
We have some great entertainment lined up in the park including folk/pop band Fishing For Compliments and singer Tim Szoradi.
Why not bring your picnic rug or chair and make an afternoon of it?
Entry to the park is FREE. If you want to join in with the duck race it's £2 for a Yellow Duck or £25 for a Blue Duck.

Thanks to Huddersfield Round Table who have provided the ducks.

Slaithwaite scouts are being helped to stage the event by scout groups from Marsden, Linthwaite and Milnsbridge

The show will return to the traditional format and scale of a competitive agricultural show with competitions being held in most of the usual animal classes, including the very welcome return of the horse classes. These will sit alongside the familiar food and drink stalls, entertainments and outdoor shopping opportunities. The new site will also enable some new areas to be explored, for example, the importance of sustainable farming.

It provides a fun day out for all the family whether you live in Kirklees, West Yorkshire or the North of England.