• Hereford River Carnival is holding an open meeting to encourage people to get involved in the 2025 event.
The drop-in open meeting will be held upstairs at De Koffie Pot between 1pm-5pm on Saturday 8th February. This will be a chance to meet the team, find out more about what we do and how you, your group, organisation or business can get involved.
• Get yourself, your mates, or your business on the River Wye for the Hereford River Carnival Flotilla on Saturday 17th May 2025.
Bring your own paddle board, canoe, inflatable, coracle or rowing boat or use a raft base from us and dress it up to advertise your business or just show off!
Register your interest here: www.rivercarnival.org Just scroll down and hit the FLOATS button
• Dress up and join the Street Carnival
Our Street Carnival sets off from Maylords at 10.30 am processes through High Town, down Broad street, King street, Bridge street and when we arrive at the Bishops Meadow it marks the opening of the day’s activities. There will be open workshops, around the city, to make costumes and structures over the Easter holidays all FREE to attend!
So let’s get the City Buzzing..
For more information keep your eyes on our website www.rivercarnival.org
• We are currently looking for sponsors
In the current climate, public funding is particularly difficult to attain and many festivals and community events have folded ‘due to lack of funding’ as was the case with our 2024 event. We are therefore asking local businesses to step in to help secure the future of the biggest and best free community event in Herefordshire! We have a ‘raft’ of sponsorship packages available which can be shaped to suit your needs, or if you can offer goods, services or volunteer staff to offset the monetary fees we incur, we would love to hear from you too.
You can find these here: www.rivercarnival.org/
• Crowd funder
We need money upfront to pay for the licence, insurance and deposits for our contractors, & have set a £5,000 target. You can fundraise in any way you see fit, be it a pub quiz, jumble sale or sponsored walk, make it a community event, or just donate what you can afford to help HRC 2025 be bigger and better.
https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/hereford-river-carnival-2025
• Volunteers
Register your interest in assisting at the Hereford River Carnival 2025. We need helping hands and smiling faces for HRC 25 happening on Saturday 17th May. Come and be part of the crew and the magic. If you have skills we can use in our event planning process please get in touch too!
Register here: www.rivercarnival.org Just scroll down and hit the VOLUTEERS button
• Advertising in the Souvenir Programme
We are publishing a Souvenir programme to with all the info on what’s happening at this year’s Carnival, this will be distributed in the Easter Holidays and handed out at the event. The programme is colourful and much prized by the attendees. If you want to advertise prices start as little as £25 to get you noticed and it shows your support for this fabulous community event.
Check out the deals on our website www.rivercarnival.org scroll down to the ‘Advertise with us’ button.