Stone Food & Drink Festival outside in the sunshine

News

🅿 UPDATE: PARK & RIDE

🅿 UPDATE: PARK & RIDE

Wednesday 2nd October 5.15pm
UPDATE: WE NOW HAVE A *NEW* PARK & RIDE VENUE Little Stoke Cricket Club, Uttoxeter Road, Stone, ST15 8RZ 

Huge thanks to everyone for your support and for your great suggestions – and to the club, of course, for their generous offer!

All other details remain the same, so park up, hop on the bus for £2pp return (acc u-16s free) and enjoy a stress free ride to Westbridge Park!!

Bus times:
Friday: first bus 10.30am / last 6.30pm
Saturday & Sunday first bus 9am / last 5.30pm

Wednesday 2nd October 11am:
Following a site inspection this morning at Aston Marina it is obvious that the ground is too waterlogged and not fit for purpose. 

Accordingly it has been  necessary to cancel the arrangements for the park-and-ride facility. There will therefore be no Park and Ride car park at Aston Marina this weekend.

Currently there are no obvious alternatives available. Visitors are therefore advised to use public transport if at all possible. First Bus operate the 101 service calling at Stone between Stafford and Hanley via Newcastle. 

Stone railway station is a short walk from the town and is on the Stoke to Stafford line. A regular one hour service operates in both directions.

If you intend to park in or near the town please do so responsibly and do not cause any obstruction.

We are appealing to any local businesses or venues who would be willing to make their carparks available. If we receive any such offers we will publish details immediately. 

Latest on Instagram

Another thank you - and it’s a BIG one! 

Without the small army of volunteers who work tirelessly in the run-up to, during and after the ‘big weekend’ the Stone Food & Drink Festival simply couldn’t happen.

It takes serious manpower to run an event of this scale - so a huge thanks to everyone who donned a white hi vis, be it for a few hours or several days, your support is vital!

Big thanks also to Wendy & Dave for working with us throughout the year to recruit, engage and organise our volunteers - you are simply awesome! 🙌 

We can’t wait to see you all at our volunteers’ thank you event - details coming soon!

In the meantime, if you’d like to join our merry band get in touch - volunteers@stonefooddrink.org.uk

...

Think you might have lost something at the fest? 🤔 

We’ve got a list of lost property items waiting to find their owners…

Please email info@stonefooddrink.org.uk with a description of your missing item by Tuesday 26th May and we’ll check if we have got it! 😃

...

#thatsawrap

Thanks to everyone who’s joined us this weekend - visitors, traders, sponsors, volunteers!

It’s been a blast 💥 - 21 years of the Stone Food & Drink Festival done 🙌

(Just wait to see what we’ve got in store for the 22nd)!

...

Congratulations to the winner of the 2026 Great Stone Bake Off - Hannah Baker! 🍰

Not only does she take home the Stone Bake Off winners’ apron but she’s bagged a pair of VIP 3 day passes to the 2027 festival 😃

Want to be part of it next year… Start practicing your best bake!! 🧁

...

Dunking Biscuits biscuit dunking challenge in full flow in the Talks & Tastings Tent! 🍪

What biscuit do you love to dunk?

...

This error message is only visible to WordPress admins
There has been a problem with your Instagram Feed.

Sign up to our Newsletter

Get our latest news, straight to your inbox.
Your subscription could not be saved. Please try again.
Thank you. Please check your inbox to confirm your subscription.

Subscribers to our newsletter receive approximately six emails per year; with special advance notice on ticket and workshop session sales and updates about what is happening during Food Festival week in and around town. Please refer to our Privacy Statement for more details.

Our Festival Sponsors

The companies who help make our event possible
If you would like to be involved in sponsoring the festival please contact us here