Public meeting to discuss 2026 Peace Festival will be held on October 13
A public meeting to discuss the Peace Festival in 2026 and to ask for more unpaid organisers and volunteers will be held at St Patrick's Irish Club on Monday October 13 at 8pm.
A consortium, which includes former organisers and a Peace Festival founder as well as some new members, has been selected by Warwick District Council (WDC) to run the Peace Festival in 2026.
The Leamington Peace Festival, a free and volunteer-led event which started from humble beginnings in 1979, has the aim of “working for the good of the town, the district and the world”.
The Covid-19 pandemic and “other reasons” led to a five-year gap with no festival - but last year, a reincarnation of the Leamington Peace Festival took place at the Pump Room Gardens on June 20-21 with new owners. But for this year’s festival, WDC has chosen to hand the event over to the new consortium.