Burntwood Wakes Festival

10/04/2026

The Burntwood Wakes Festival will be held on Saturday 18th July, 12 - 4pm at Burntwood Leisure Centre! ☀️
We can't wait to welcome you to this fantastic, FREE event and we'll have a wide range of FREE activities, FREE entertainment, food and more available:
🎡 FREE Fairground rides
🏰 FREE Inflatables
🩵 Charity and community stalls
🌭 Food vendors
🧁 Market stalls
🎨 FREE Face painting & FREE Face glitter
🐹 FREE Petting zoo
🧗 FREE Climbing wall
⛏ FREE Mobile caving
🥪FREE packed lunches for children, with thanks to funding from The Noel Sweeney Foundation

20/01/2026

It’s never too early to start planning something amazing! 🎉

The Burntwood Wakes Festival is back this year on Saturday 18th July, so put it in your diary and save the date! 🗓️

💚 Are you a charity or community group that would like a stall? We’d be delighted to hear from you.
🤝 Local businesses, sponsorship opportunities are available too - come and be part of one of Burntwood’s biggest celebrations!
📩 If you'd like to find out more, please get in touch with us at [email protected].

19/07/2025

19/07/2025

19/07/2025

The fairground rides are set up and the rest are coming.... Burntwood Wakes starts at midday.

18/07/2025

18/07/2025

We'll be at Burntwood Wakes Festival tomorrow, please come and say hello. You'll find us inside the leisure centre.

Not only can you meet our Bob, Bev, Pat and Margaret - you can meet Des Coleman (ITV weather presenter and West End star) too. 🤩

18/07/2025

🌞 The Burntwood Wakes is on tomorrow! 🌞

Over the past 10 days we've given you a round up of what you can expect from this fantastic, free, community day, and we can't wait to see you there for food, rides, entertainment and fun!

Just a few things to know ahead of the event:

🚗 Parking is extremely limited at Burntwood Leisure Centre so we'd encourage you to walk or ride if you can. If you are planning on visiting the event by car and the car park is full, please park considerately in the surrounding areas ensuring that access for emergency vehicles and local residents is not restricted. Please do not park on the access roads in and out of the leisure centre.

🐕 Dogs are welcome at the Wakes but they must be on a lead at all times.

🚾 Portable toilets will be available for use including a disabled toilet.

📍 For information or advice during the event, please pop in and see us at the Burntwood Town Council gazebo.

With huge thanks to our sponsors Lichfield District Council, M Core, The Noel Sweeney Foundation, Roadtech Cutting Services Ltd, Crown Highways and The Drill Inn for supporting the Wakes this year.

17/07/2025

Not long now .... We are excited for another fun packed weekend this time we will be Burntwood Wakes
From 12-4pm
come down and say Hi bring the fam .

17/07/2025

🌞 2 days to go until the Burntwood Wakes Festival! 🌞

There will be plenty of ways you can try out your sports, wellbeing and fitness skills at the Wakes!

Active Lichfield will be bringing soft archery, badminton, table tennis, pick up and play equipment and football target nets for some games on the field. ⚽️🏓🏸🏹

Revive Yoga and Wellbeing Studio will also be running a wellbeing area, showcasing yoga, meditation, sound healing and much more. 🧘‍♀️

Bring your bikes and helmets to try out Trial Anywhere brought by Let's Get A Pump Track Built in Burntwood. 🚴‍♀️🚴

With huge thanks to our sponsors Lichfield District Council, M Core, The Noel Sweeney Foundation, Roadtech Cutting Services Ltd, Crown Highways and The Drill Inn for supporting the Wakes this year.