~~The Barford Festival is the spectacular summer fundraiser for Barford Primary school in Norfolk.
Organised by a small handful of parents with the support of the school, local residents and businesses, the festival has evolved over the last 9 years into a mini Glastonbury Festival featuring local bands, walkabout theatre, stilt walkers, cocktail bar, beer tent, art and music workshops, food concessions, circus workshops etc etc.
It’s lucky that the fundraising group has the right mix of parents who have all the necessary skills, talent and expertise to compliment each other and pull it all together to produce a professional style event.
By no means is it an easy task to be a parent, go to work and organise a festival in your spare time but the success of the event, the joy and close community spirit it brings to Barford makes it a very special day and all the hard work worth while. It’s truly wonderful how the local pub, village hall, local play group, businesses, restaurants and musicians all support the Barford Festival.
It goes from strength to strength each year and the children get very excited as the festival countdown begins and they especially look forward to performing either a song or a drama workshop during the day.
