Garstang Scarecrow Festival

05/04/2026

We are pleased to announce the full weekend line up for the Summer Festival 2026!

Tickets are selling out fast for the first 2 days! So get yours whilst you can!!!

Friday tickets - https://www.skiddle.com/whats-on/Preston/Garstang-Cricket-Club/RT90s-Presents-Insomnia--Sorted/42156025/

Saturday tickets - https://www.skiddle.com/e/4225125

We cannot wait to see you there! Tag your Summer Festival Crew for the chance to win prizes on the day!!!

05/04/2026

Garstang Scarecrow Festival has teamed up with Garstang Summer Festival this year. The event has a different format to previous years.

Friday 26th June
🧑‍🌾 Free Scarecrow Trail in Garstang

🎉 Friday Night at Garstang Summer Festival 2026! 🎉Get ready for a huge night of 90’s Old Skool Dance Anthems as the incredible INSOMNIA show brings the ultimate throwback rave to Garstang. Expect an electrifying atmosphere, live vocals, huge beats and all the classic tracks that defined a generation. 💃🕺

📍 Garstang Cricket Club – The Riverside

Saturday 27th June
🧑‍🌾 Free Scarecrow Trail in Garstang centre
Saturday night at Garstang Cricket Club - Live Music from The Flatlanders & Festival Bar.

Sunday 28th June
Family Fun Day at the Cricket Club including family funfair 🎪 & entertainment.
Scarecrow 🥇 🏆 winners presentation 3pm at the Cricket Club.
🧑‍🌾 Scarecrow Trail in Garstang

We’re delighted to announce that ENTRIES are now officially OPEN for this year’s Scarecrow Festival!

🗓 26th–28th June
🎯 Theme: SPORT

There are a wide range of categories this year:

• Children aged 10 and under
• Children aged 11–17
• Adults
• Nurseries, Preschools and Schools
• Businesses
• Community Groups
• Care / Nursing Homes
• Canal Barges

We will also be awarding prizes for:

🏆 Best Street
⚙️ Best Mechanical Entry
📰 Best Topical Entry

It’s completely FREE to enter.

This year, we won’t be placing scarecrows around the town ourselves — instead, we’re leaving it up to you! Simply create your scarecrow, display it at your chosen location, and let us know where it will be exhibited. We will then create and publish the official Scarecrow Trail map based on your entries.

Entering is easy — just click the link below and complete the form:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1aCXBiqqcBqk5DasD6sTfaf10N9SEQQ5gceuDpLBxfxM/edit

Get creative, get competitive, and bring your sporting scarecrows to life — we can’t wait to see your fantastic entries!

🎟 Tickets & info: https://www.skiddle.com/whats-on/Preston/Garstang-Cricket-Club/RT90s-Presents-Insomnia--Sorted/42156025/

23/02/2026

We’re delighted to announce that ENTRIES are now officially OPEN for this year’s Scarecrow Festival!

🗓 26th–28th June
🎯 Theme: SPORT

There are a wide range of categories this year:

• Children aged 10 and under
• Children aged 11–17
• Adults
• Nurseries, Preschools and Schools
• Businesses
• Community Groups
• Care / Nursing Homes
• Canal Barges

We will also be awarding prizes for:

🏆 Best Street
⚙️ Best Mechanical Entry
📰 Best Topical Entry

It’s completely FREE to enter.

This year, we won’t be placing scarecrows around the town ourselves — instead, we’re leaving it up to you! Simply create your scarecrow, display it at your chosen location, and let us know where it will be exhibited. We will then create and publish the official Scarecrow Trail map based on your entries.

Entering is easy — just click the link below and complete the form:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1aCXBiqqcBqk5DasD6sTfaf10N9SEQQ5gceuDpLBxfxM/edit

Get creative, get competitive, and bring your sporting scarecrows to life — we can’t wait to see your fantastic entries!

Scarecrow Entry Form

23/02/2026

We’re delighted to announce that ENTRIES are now officially OPEN for this year’s Scarecrow Festival!

🗓 26th–28th June
🎯 Theme: SPORT

There are a wide range of categories this year:

• Children aged 10 and under
• Children aged 11–17
• Adults
• Nurseries, Preschools and Schools
• Businesses
• Community Groups
• Care / Nursing Homes
• Canal Barges

We will also be awarding prizes for:

🏆 Best Street
⚙️ Best Mechanical Entry
📰 Best Topical Entry

It’s completely FREE to enter.

This year, we won’t be placing scarecrows around the village ourselves — instead, we’re leaving it up to you! Simply create your scarecrow, display it at your chosen location, and let us know where it will be exhibited. We will then create and publish the official Scarecrow Trail map based on your entries.

Entering is easy — just click the link below and complete the form:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1aCXBiqqcBqk5DasD6sTfaf10N9SEQQ5gceuDpLBxfxM/edit

Get creative, get competitive, and bring your sporting scarecrows to life — we can’t wait to see your fantastic entries!

If you’d like, I can also create a shorter social media version or a poster-friendly version.

28/01/2026

26/01/2026

For trade enquiries, face painting, funfair, vendors, entertainment etc please direct those enquiries to Garstang Summer Festival as they will be organising that side of the festival

Thank you

26/01/2026

🎉 Great news! Garstang Scarecrow is going ahead this year! 🎉

A huge thank you to our friends at Garstang Summer Festival for their support in making this happen.

The Scarecrow Trail will run from Friday 26th June, continuing over Saturday 27th and Sunday 28th June, alongside the ever-popular Garstang Summer Festival at .

The grand finale takes place on Sunday 28th June at the Sports Club, Garstang, featuring:
🎶 Live entertainment
🎠 Children’s funfair
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family fun day
🏆 Scarecrow Winners Presentation

As always, entry is FREE, and this year’s theme remains the same: SPORT! ⚽🏀🎾

We’re doing things slightly differently this year – once you enter your scarecrow, you’ll tell us where it will be displayed, and we’ll create the trail from the entries received.

Entries are welcome from children, adults, schools, businesses, and community groups.

📝 Online entry forms will be available very soon!

Thank you all for your continued support – we can’t wait to see your sporting scarecrows! 🙌

11/01/2026

We are currently liaising with another Garstang organisation to hopefully bring you a Scarecrow Trail combined with another local festival this summer. The theme would remain the same, Sport ⚽️ 🏏

Further information to be shared very soon.

We will keep you posted!

Thank you for your understanding 🩷

05/01/2026

Dear followers,

Unfortunately, we have had to make the very difficult decision to cancel the 2026 Garstang Scarecrow Festival.

We know this will be a big disappointment to many, and for that we sincerely apologise. We are a very small committee of just four volunteers, all of whom work full time. Recently, increased work commitments,including more time spent working away, have made it virtually impossible to dedicate the time needed to plan and deliver the festival to the standard it deserves.

Please accept our apologies once again. However, we do hope to bring you the Garstang Santa 🎅 Dash later in the year, and we look forward to sharing more details about that soon.

Thank you, as always, for your understanding and continued support.

31/08/2025

Back by popular demand, Garstang Scarecrow Festival will be held over the weekend 3-5th July 2026 🙌

After careful consideration, the THEME for 2026 is SPORT 🏉 🏏 ⚽️ 🏊‍♂️ 🎱 🏸 🏃‍♀️ 🎾

This theme gives plenty of options & we thought it would tie in very nicely with our newly extended Garstang Community Sports Hub!

There will be the usual entry categories whether you are children entering, preschools, schools, community groups, businesses, adults etc. There’s also a category for best mechanical scarecrow display and topical. Entry forms will be available soon but in the meantime, get your thinking caps on! Please share 🙏😍

15/07/2025

Date for your diary!

Ladies wear POP UP PRELOVED Sale & Fashion Show

⭐ Saturday 26th July
⭐ Wyrebank in Garstang
⭐ Doors open at 3pm 🕒
⭐ Fashion show from 5.30pm

FREE ENTRY ~ 100’s of items, lots of brand new items, good quality clothing at bargain prices

Sizes from 6 to 26

Shoes ~ handbags ~ accessories ~ bags

Brands include Joules, M&S, NEXT, Ted Baker, ZARA, Gerry Webber, Shein, River Island, Wallis, Moschino, The North Face, Boo Hoo, Per Una, Phase Eight and more!

We have workwear, holiday and beachwear, special occasions, race days, evening wear, sparkle for Christmas, you name it we’ve got it!

Raising funds for The Matthew Hesmondhalgh Memorial Fund - CRY and St John’s Hospice.

Tropics, Crafty Diane and Soroptimists will also have stalls too.

Please share - lots of bargains to be had!
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