Join us on Saturday, July 26, 12-5pm in Wray Crescent park.
Volunteers from the Friends of Wray Crescent working with Islington’s park team are proud to announce the third ever Love Our Park Wray Crescent Festival, a fabulous family day out with plenty to see and do.
We have vast quantities of music, entertainment, and stalls. It’s all for free, though we do ask everyone please to donate generously to help meet festival costs. Anything we don’t spend on the event will support the work of The Friends of Wray Crescent across the rest of the year.
Music and entertainment
N19 stage and bar, featuring amazing talent from the regular talent nights. At the stage and around the event you’ll find all this and more…
- Bunny Valentine
- Tottenham Community Choir
- Andy Hamilton
- Nick Putz
- African Drumming with Amberliegh
- Third Age Ukulele Band
- Bird of Paradise
Much more to be announced.
Raffle
Every year Stroud Green Traders and the wonderful Pretty Shiny Shop get together to create the always amazing Wray Crescent raffle. Over the last two years people have walked away with fantastic prizes, including meals, toys, gifts and more. The raffle is really important to the festival – it is a big part of how we pay for the event, so please buy tickets on the day.
Stalls
Everyone likes to explore all the interesting stalls at a festival. The Wray Crescent Festival is no exception. You’ll find lots of food stalls, coffee, and a range of gifts and other delights. Visit to explore:
- Local honey
- Gifts
- Hand-made clocks
- Aromatherapy
- Coconut shy
- Wray Crescent History Exhibition.
If you would like to set up your own stall, or run a blanket stall at the event, please get in touch.
Kids
There really is so much for kids to see and do at the festival this year, there’s all the other stuff going on during the day, and brilliant sports and games to choose from too. Along with everything else on this page, your kids can look forward to:
- Free face painting.
- Bobby Bubbles
- Free Bouncy Castle.
- Punch and Judy.
- Drumming workshops.
- Crafts and stories with Islington Libraries.
- The Incredibly Chaotic Parents Versus Kids Tug of War.
Community
We are a local community group. We do this because we believe in the power of communities, so we are delighted to invite groups active in our community to join us every year. Come and meet all of these community champions at this year’s event.
- Minority Matters, Empowering young people from isolated communities through engagement projects that empower the parents and inspire the young.
- Kick Back, Reducing violence, providing positive activities, and increasing opportunities for young people.
- Switchboard, Switchboard is the national LGBTQIA+ support line.
- Mary’s Youth Club, A powerful organisation providing open-access youth work.
- Gamcare, Founders of the national gambling helpline.
- Amberliegh. Empowering children and young people through creative and performing arts.
Activities
We are grateful that sports and games will be handled by the lovely people from SportSchool. They specialise in using physical education as a tool to create varied, fun and interactive opportunities to teach physical, cognitive, social and emotional skills.
We are adding more stalls and other entertainment all the time. If you want to perform, would like to sponsor the event, or run a stall, please make contact.
See you on July 26 at midday.