WESTfest 2025 - celebrating 10 years 2015 to 2025. Come and join us on Sunday 22 June 1130am to 4pm Cradhurst Recreation Ground
WESTfest 2025 – 10th Birthday Party
WESTfest began in 2015 with a small village fair on the recreation ground. From modest beginnings the event is now a firm fixture in the village calendar and a highlight of the community’s year. We change the theme every year and this year we’re celebrating our 10th Birthday Party! Come and join in the fun on Sunday 22 June 2025
WESTfest aims – The main aim of WESTfest is to bring the community of Westcott together. WESTfest creates a platform for various local institutions and charities to fundraise or raise awareness and to be more visible. WESTfest also aims to celebrate and showcase local musicians, choirs, poets, dancers and other performers, notably our famous village school. The events also champion local crafts, artisans, traders and businesses and enables them to sell their products and services to a receptive local audience.
WESTfest Fundraising – a key part of WESTfest events are our charitable fundraising activities including our now infamous Silent Auction and Dog Agility. We usually raise between £4,000 and £6,000 for multiple local charities each year.
WESTfest Sponsors & Partners – we are very grateful to all the individuals and organisations that support WESTfest. Our key sponsors are Seymour’s of Dorking, UNUM, The Tree Associates (Surrey) and the Westcott Village Association. This year, the WESTfest organisers are delighted to have joined forces with the Westcott Village Hall Trustees and we’re working in partnership to bring you the best ever WESTfest!
Looking back - WESTfestivity 2024 was another huge success
The summer time WESTfest 2024 was also a great success
What a fabulous event WESTfest 2024 was. Congratulations to everyone involved in making it happen and thank you to all those who came along and made is such a huge success.
WESTfestivity November 2023
Well that was a Right Royal WESTfest 2023
Well, that was A RIGHT ROYAL WESTfest 2023!
The 8th annual WESTfest, heralding the coronation of our new King and celebrating our village community in majestic style! A coronation parade and celebration took place in Westcott in 1953, complete with ‘Queen Elizabeth II’ in full fancy dress regalia, so we’re delighted that 70 years on, ‘King Charles and Queen Camilla’ came to WESTfest to open the show (arriving with Daniel Brown Horseman ), accompanied by the wonderful Surrey Hills All Saints Primary School choir singing the National Anthem!
This year our eclectic mix of live music included the stately 20-piece brass The Cobham Band, and the brilliant Chobham and Dorking Rock Choir! Westcott’s resident dog expert John Venn from Surrey Hills Dog Training was back to run our dog agility and judge the Fun Dog Show. And rounding off the afternoon in rollicKING style our brilliant compere and DJ, G-Man’s Mobile Disco blasted out his favourite ANTHEMS… It was a cracKING line-up! (And despite the dismal forecast it DIDN’T rain!)
An entertainment highlight that wasn’t on the agenda was the visiting Fire Engine getting stuck in the mud on Cradhurst and needing rescuing by Giles in his vintage tractor!
Another highlight was the number of grown adults who engaged in the Coronation Games 3-legged and egg and spoon races with such vigour and competitive spirits they also became closely acquainted with the Cradhurst mud…
WESTfest is really all about community, but a happy bi-product of the day is our charity fund raising! The famous WESTfest Silent Auction and Raffle did a stonKING job, raising over £5000 which will be split between our 5 charities, F@SH Friends at Surrey Hills School, Dorking Minds Group, The Brigitte Trust – Helping People Live Well Beyond Diagnosis, Papua Partners and Faurefold Holiday House Guiding.
WESTfest has become a key part of Westcott’s village identity (it’s like the annual whole village street party!) but it is only possible with all the support we get from people in the village and local businesses… ThanKING our performers, stallholders, advertisers, Silent Auction donors, designer Suellen Peskett, event sponsors Seymours Estate Agents Dorking, raffle sponsors The Tree Associates Surrey Ltd, W Songhurst Ltd (Westcott Builders) and C J Uden Ltd (Drainage), our amazing team of volunteers, and to everyone who came along (especially as the forecast was so dire!).
We hope you enjoy the selection of photos! See you next year – probably in June next time!
WESTFest Organising Committee
