{"id":715590,"date":"2026-01-23T15:27:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T15:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/715590\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T15:27:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T15:27:10","slug":"committee-gears-up-for-beeston-festival-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/715590\/","title":{"rendered":"Committee gears up for Beeston Festival 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/BF-Committee-at-AGM-Jan26.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Beeston Festival held its Annual General Meeting on Monday (19 January 2026) confirming officer posts and welcoming two new committee members.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting reviewed the 2025 event, which had been a great success. Overall, the cost of the festival at c\u00a335,000 had been as budgeted for, but with fundraising slightly down a \u00a31,000 loss had been made in the year. This was covered from reserves.<\/p>\n<p>With several transactions not yet fully completed the final accounts were not ready to be approved at the meeting, however all known costs have been budgeted for.<\/p>\n<p>Hon Alderwoman Angela Gabriel BEM was re-elected to Chair the festival committee. Hannah Ward was elected as Secretary, Hannah Marshall as Treasurer and Jeremy Morton as Event Manager. Chris White and James Sanderton joined the committee having volunteered at the event previously.<\/p>\n<p>Committee members were allocated to various task groups (fundraising, publicity, stalls, etc) as gets underway for this year\u2019s festival which will take place in Cross Flatts Park on Saturday 27th June 2026.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s festival will reflect the 400th anniversary of Leeds receiving its first Royal City Charter from Charles I. It is anticipated that stall bookings will open towards the end of February.<\/p>\n<p>You can keep up to date with developments in the build up to June by following Beeston Festival on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BeestonFestival\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><strong>Facebook<\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/BeestonFestival\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Instagram<\/strong><\/a> or visiting its <a href=\"http:\/\/beestonfestival.org.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><strong>website<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>While you\u2019re here, can we ask a favour?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">South Leeds Life is published by a not-for-profit social enterprise. We keep our costs as low as possible but we\u2019ve been hit by increases in the print costs for our monthly newspaper which have doubled in the last two years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Could you help support local community news by making a one off donation, or even better taking out a supporters subscription?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Donate here, or sign up for a subscription at <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/SLLsubscribe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><strong>bit.ly\/SLLsubscribe<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Beeston Festival held its Annual General Meeting on Monday (19 January 2026) confirming officer posts and welcoming two&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":715591,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8814],"tags":[33454,4544,213989,748,393,4884,1860,16,15],"class_list":["post-715590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-leeds","tag-agm","tag-annual-general-meeting","tag-beeston-festival","tag-britain","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-leeds","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115945121527875658","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=715590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/715591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}