Mells Daffodil Festival

22/03/2025

16/04/2024

The Mells Fete will be held on Monday 6th May 2024. Entrance is £3, free for children under 5.

28/02/2024

There will be no Mells Daffodil Festival in 2024. However, the village will be hosting a smaller event - the Mells Fete - on May 6th.

16/01/2023

There will be no Mells Daffodil Festival in 2023 because we do not have enough volunteers to run it.

29/01/2022

There will be no Mells Daffodil Festival in 2022. It is an event run entirely by volunteers and it is not possible to put it on this year.

08/12/2021

Thank you SO much to all those who came along tonight to support the future of Mells Daffodil Festival. The good news is that the show will go on! Because of Covid and the lack of time to get things going between now and Easter Monday it doesn't look like there will be a Daffodil Day in 2022 but we are now working towards putting on an incredible comeback for Easter 2023. Watch this space!

06/12/2021

Hi all - we will be holding a meeting at the Talbot in Mells at 6.30pm this Wednesday 8th December. Please come along if you would like to see the event continue and would like to volunteer in the future

19/11/2021

Sadly it looks as if Mells Daffodil Festival won’t be happening next year. Almost everyone on the original committee has resigned or left the village since we were last able to put on the event in 2019 and we haven’t been unable to find enough volunteers willing to give up their time to put on the festival in 2022.

It has always been run by volunteers from Mells and as the event has grown so big over the last few years, it takes months to organise. We need around ten people on the committee - and as things stand we only have one!

07/10/2021

After two years of Mells Daffodil Festival being cancelled by Covid, there’s huge hope for it to come back in 2022. I have been involved with the festival for seven years, six of which I’ve been Chair. It’s been an amazing project to be involved with and the committee has managed to raise thousands of pounds for the village, as well as put on some incredible events.

But the time has come to get some fresh eyes on the festival, some new blood on the committee. I have decided to resign as Chair and many of my fellow colleagues are doing the same.

The good news is we still have some money in the bank to be able to get the ball rolling again for next year should a new group of local people want to take it on. The current committee would be very happy to hand over all our knowledge to anyone who wants to get involved.

We will be holding a meeting in the Talbot Inn at 7pm on Wednesday 10th November, so if you want to get involved, please come and join us. The next festival is due to be held on Easter Monday, 18th April, so there’s plenty of time to get organised and with Easter being a bit later this year, hopefully the weather will be good! Hope to see any interested parties on 10th November.

Daisy Steel, Chair, Mells Daffodil Festival Committee

30/03/2021

Easter Monday would have been the 42nd Mells Daffodil Day. We are very sad that the pandemic has meant that the event has had to be cancelled for the second year in a row. Keeping our fingers crossed for 2022.

12/10/2020

Sadly, Mells Daffodil Festival won't be happening in 2021. We have taken the difficult decision to cancel because of the current situation with Covid-19. We hope to be back in 2022.

08/10/2019

Mells Daffodil Festival will be taking a break in 2020. We are very grateful to all those who came and supported us in 2019 to celebrate our 40th anniversary. It was a fantastic day and a bumper year for fundraising. But it's a huge commitment for our volunteer team and we decided to take a year off in 2020 - which is lucky because we would have had go cancel over coronavirus anyway. Sorry...but we hope to be back in 2021.