Shaftesbury Snowdrops Festival 2024 is now over.
Thank you to everyone who visited. We have loved meeting you all.
We’re taking a break for a while to review the festival but we’ll be back soon with news about our next projects.
Shaftesbury Snowdrops is a unique project to create a natural legacy from the late Queen’s Diamond Jubilee in 2012.
Shaftesbury’s snowdrop season is one of the biggest events of its type in the country and the town’s free snowdrop walks, including wheelchair and pushchair accessible routes, can be enjoyed by all, including dogs.
Festival week will run from 10th – 18th February 2024.
The highlight will be the return of the Snowdrop Study Day on Sunday 11th February with guest speakers at Shaftesbury Arts Centre, followed by our famous snowdrop sale:
“The Best in the West”.
There will be family-friendly craft activities, walks and lantern-making workshops throughout the week.
We are delighted to host horticulturalist Lou Nicholls, on Saturday 17th February.
She will have snowdrops for sale as part of the plant fair in the Town Hall and will give a lecture at the Arts Centre in the afternoon.
The finale of the festival will be our snowdrop lantern parade on Saturday 17th followed by dancing from
Steps in Time.
We were delighted that BBC Countryfile came to Shaftesbury to film the activities of the Snowdrop Season, including some of the artisans and
organisations who work with us.
A huge thank you to the BBC and to all the volunteers who made the filming possible over two very busy days.
“Just as the flowers provide pleasure and the promise of spring to come, the Season creates a sense of excitement and brings townspeople and visitors together in enjoying everything Shaftesbury has to offer.”
Founder, Pam Cruickshank
Timelapse photography is thanks to and copyright of Neil Bromhall
Background image is thanks to and copyright of Jane Shepherd