Christmas Under the Edge 2025 Saturday 6th December 4pm to 8pm
Event Information!
This is a Free Community Event, no tickets required to attend.
Christmas Under the Edge is an outdoor event, always held on the First Saturday of December.
Next Event is Saturday 6th December 2025, 4-8pm.
Father Christmas starts the event at 4pm with a procession from Church Street all the way to the Town Hall. The procession includes local children from both primary schools singing carols, the Town Crier, and anyone who wants to join in.
The procession travels from Church Street to the Town Hall on Market Street and passes the vast majority of stalls and shops on the route.
Music will be everywhere, with the Mummers, Morris Dancers, local school children performing, sets by various musicians and wandering street performers.
Father Christmas will process to his Grotto in the Town Hall. Grotto and tickets provided by The Keepers Community Hub, Wotton-under-Edge.
Shops will be open late and some will have stalls outside as well.
Local artisans, organisations, and businesses will have stalls offering all types of Food, Drink, Crafts, Ceramics, Jewellery, Accessories, Games and Information. At the last event there were over 70 shops and stalls booked.
The event usually draws around 4,000 visitors. The roads are closed for the duration of the event.
The event is run by community volunteers for the benefit of the community. It is a not for profit event and any proceeds are used to provide costs for the following year.
Please remember that all organisers are volunteers and have jobs and families to consider.
That means
(1) that we have to balance the competing demands of many stallholders and street traders, community groups, and shopkeepers. What may appear appropriate to your specific situation might well compromise a number of others more significantly and
(2) that it will take longer for us to respond to questions and queries at times, for which we do ask your understanding.
We organise the event using a philosophical principle popularised by Jeremy Bentham – the concept that ‘we should achieve the greatest amount of happiness for the greatest proportion of those people affected’. It’s always good to bear that in mind.
