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Trade with us for our 2027 festival in Wimborne, Dorset!

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Join us in our 10th festival (our 7th festival at our current festival site) in the heart of Wimborne, Dorset, and join 50+ traders as part of our 2026 festival.

 

Bringing together a hand-picked, finest selection of small businesses, brands, and charities, 2027 welcomes 100s of families across the festival weekend. Family Fest is the perfect opportunity to showcase yourselves, and whatever your business objective, we have something available for all businesses, brands, and charities.

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As a festival, we cannot be held liable for damage to festival furniture or stock, and as a minimum, all traders require £1 million Public Liability Insurance and a full event traders' risk assessment. Specialist traders, including food, will require other documents to trade, which we will confirm with you at the time of confirmation of trading​.

Standard Festival Trader

Trading: Saturday 26th and Sunday 27th June 2027

Choose from either our standard 3m frontage x 3m width pitches or get one of our bigger pitches at our 2027 festival, located outside and on grass, as part of our traders based across the festival site, available for your business or brand.

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As a standard festival trader you will require as standard: gazebo, tables and chairs, £1 million or above Public Liability Insurance and a Event Risk Assessment.

Food & Drink Trading Pitches

Trading: Saturday 26th and Sunday 27th June 2027

Choose from either our 3m frontage x 3m width pitches or get one of our bigger pitches at our 2027 festival as part of our food and drink offerings, located outside and on grass, limited to food consumption on site as well as take-home or enjoy in the kitchen, as part of our traders based across the festival site, available for your business or brand.

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As a food and drink trader, you will require, as standard: a gazebo, tables and chairs, £1 million or above Public Liability Insurance, all food hygiene documents including local council documents and an Event Risk Assessment.

Food & Crafts Shopping Hall

Trading: Saturday 26th and Sunday 27th June 2027

Choose from either our 2m frontage x 2m width pitches or get one of our bigger pitches at our 2027 festival as part of our NEW food and crafts shopping hall, located in a marquee and on grass.

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As a food and crafts shopping hall trader, you will require, as standard: a gazebo, tables and chairs, £1 million or above Public Liability Insurance, all food hygiene documents including local council documents and an Event Risk Assessment.

Front Entrance Festival Trader

Trading: Saturday 26th and Sunday 27th June 2027

Choose from either of our front entrance 3m frontage x 3m width pitches or get one of our bigger pitches at our 2027 festival, located outside and on grass, as part of our limited number of pitches in a high-footfall area of the festival site, available for your business or brand.

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As a front entrance festival trader you will require as standard: gazebo, tables and chairs, £1 million or above Public Liability Insurance and a Event Risk Assessment.

Charity Festival Trader

Trading: Saturday 26th and Sunday 27th June 2027

Choose from either our standard 3m frontage x 3m depth pitch or 3m frontage x 6m depth pitch at our 2027 festival, as part of our traders based across the festival site, available for charity today, which, as a festival, we provide at a discounted rate to support you getting your charity out there.

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As a charity festival trader, you will require, as standard: a gazebo, tables and chairs, £1 million or above Public Liability Insurance and an Event Risk Assessment.

Hot Food Festival Trader

Trading: Friday 25th, Saturday 26th and Sunday 27th June 2027

Our 5m frontage x 5m width hot food traders pitch is perfect for those businesses that provide the best hot food, and as a festival, we are always looking for something different from the traditional food usually found at festivals and as standard, we never duplicate traders, so you will be the only hot food trader of your kind at the festival.

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As a hot food festival trader you will require as standard: gazebo or trailer, generator (unless you choose power through us), tables and chairs, £2 million or above Public Liability Insurance, Event Risk Assessment, Food Hygiene certificates and local council registration

Traders Commitment Fee

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As a festival, we introduced the Traders Commitment Fee, previously known as the Traders Agreement Deposit, in 2023 due to traders not abiding by five simple but effective rules. This has worked for both us as a festival and you, the trader, and we will continue to have this in place in 2027, but we have made this an easier process for 2027.

 

The Traders Commitment Fee is a total of £20 (£50 for food traders), which will be returned to you as cash at 4.30pm on Sunday 27th June 2027 as long as the following rules are followed:

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  1. You, the festival trader, trade at Family Fest at the traders' trading times (see below)

  2. You, the festival trader, do not pack up or leave early, causing blank pitches in the festival

  3. You, the festival trader, park in the traders' car park, unless the vehicle is included in the pitch size (food traders will be provided a space for vehicles behind their pitch) and do not access the site during festival opening hours with your vehicle under any circumstances

  4. You, the festival trader, are still trading with gazebo up and stock out at 4.30pm on Sunday 27th June 2027

  5. You, the festival trader, listen to all instructions when at Family Fest, including pitching up correctly​

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In the event that the Traders Agreement Deposit rules are broken, your deposit will not be returned to you in hand on Sunday 27th June 2027.

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Traders Opening Hours

 

Standard traders' opening hours are as follows:

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  • Saturday 26th June 2027 - 10am until 6pm (can trade until 8pm)

  • Sunday 27th June 2027 - 10am until 5pm

 

Hot food traders' opening hours are as follows;

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  • Friday 25th June 2027 - 4pm to 9pm

  • Saturday 26th June 2027 - 10am to 9pm

  • Sunday 27th June 2027 - 10am to 5pm

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​​​Application Process

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When submitting your application for Family Fest 2027, please email all business documents, including your Public Liability Insurance and event risk assessment, to us at hello@familyfestdorset.co.uk at your earliest convenience.

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Once your application has been received by the team, along with your business documents, we will process your 2026 trading application and get back to you within 21 days to confirm whether your business, brand or charity has been successful in the application process. 

 

If you have been successful, we will ask you to confirm your acceptance, and we will require your first payment, 50% of the invoice, including the trader's pitch fee and Traders Commitment Fee, within 15 working days to confirm your attendance for our 2027 festival, with the rest of the payments due as below.

 

If the first payment isn't paid within 15 working days, you will have to reapply to trade at Family Fest 2027, and your pitch will be given to the next business in line.

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Important Dates

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Our 2027 traders' application dates can be found below.

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  • Application Accepted: Within 21 working days of the application sent, if accepted

  • Invoices: 50% due within 15 working days, with the remainder due by Friday 4th June 2027

  • Applications Close: Wednesday 2nd June 2027

  • Documents: due by Friday 11th June 2027

  • Traders Festival Info: sent out by Wednesday 16th June 2027

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Our 2026 payment dates are as follows:

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  • 50% of the invoice due within 15 working days of the invoice sent

  • The remainder of the invoice is due by Friday 4th June 2027

award-winning small festival • 25th to 27th June 2027 • Wimborne, Dorset

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