29th, 30th + 31st May 2026

Trade at Family Fest

Trade with us for our 2026 festival in Wimborne, Dorset!

Join us in our 9th festival (our 6th festival at our current festival site) in the heart of Wimborne, Dorset, and join 50+ traders as part of our 2026 festival.

Bringing together a hand-picked, finest selection of small businesses, brands, and charities, 2026 welcomes over 2000 festival attendees across the festival weekend. Family Fest is the perfect opportunity to showcase yourselves, and whatever your business objective, we have something available for all businesses, brands, and charities.

As a festival, we cannot be held liable for damage to festival furniture or stock, and as a minimum, all traders require £1 million Public Liability Insurance and a full event traders' risk assessment. Specialist traders, including food, will require other documents to trade, which we will confirm with you at the time of confirmation of trading.

Booking for 2026 pitches open in November 2026 - email us at hello@familyfestdorset.co.uk to show your interest today!

Apply Today!

Standard Festival Trader

Trading; Saturday 30th May and Sunday 31st May 2026

3m x 4m Pitch - £70

3m x 6m Pitch - £105

Be part of our main festival traders at Family Fest 2026.

We have a choice of pitches available, with our standard pitch (3m x 4m), large pitch (3m x 6m), and bespoke pitch (larger than 3m x 6m) available for your business, or brand. We carefully choose all of our traders for our festival and have ample pitches to trade within.

As a standard trader, you will require the following; own gazebo, tables and chairs, £1 million or more Public Liability Insurance, full event trader risk assessment, and be ready for what the great British weather throws at you, rain or shine (don't forget the sandals or boots)!

Charity Festival Trader

Trading; Saturday 30th May and Sunday 31st May 2026

3m x 4m Pitch - £20

3m x 6m Pitch - £30

Be part of our main festival traders at Family Fest 2026, with our special charity pitches.

Food Festival Trader

Trading; Friday 29th May, Saturday 30th May and Sunday 31st May 2026

5m x 7m hot food pitch - £600

3m x 4m food pitch - £300

Be part of our food traders at Family Fest 2026.

We have a limited number of food pitches available for 2026 and we are always looking for food traders who provide something different from the traditional food usually found at festivals. We carefully choose all of our traders for our festival and with our main food pitches, we will never duplicate, so you will be the only food trader of your kind within the festival itself.

If you are a trader offering cakes or sweets, you will fall within our standard trading pitch (details above). If you are selling ice cream, doughnuts and other high-selling food, please get in touch with us for a bespoke pitch quote for 2026 to hello@familyfestdorset.co.uk.

As a food trader, you will require the following; own gazebo, tables and chairs, £2 million or more Public Liability Insurance, full event trader risk assessment, food hygiene certificate, food certificates, local registration with your council, and be ready for what the great British weather throws at you, rain or shine (don't forget the sandals or boots)!

Traders Agreement Deposit

As a festival, we introducted the Traders Agreement Deposit in 2023 due to trading not abiding to five simple but effective rules, and this has worked for both us as a festival, and you, the trader, and we will continue to have this in place in 2026. The Traders Agreement Deposit is a deposit of £25 (£50 for food traders) which will be returned after the festival, by the 30th June 2026, as long as the following rules are followed:

You, the festival trader, trade at Family Fest at the advertised times (see below)
You, the festival trader, does not pack up or leave early causing blank pitches in the festival
You, the festival trader, parks in the traders car park, unless the vehicle is included in the pitch size (food traders provided with a vehicle space behind pitch as part of the pitch)
You, the festival trader, does not drive at any time during festival opening hours causing a risk to the public, festival staff and other traders
You, the festival trader, listen to all instructions when at Family Fest, including pitch up correctly

Standard traders opening hours are Saturday 30th May 2026, from 10am until 6pm, and Sunday 31st May 2026, from 9am until 4pm. Food traders opening hours are Saturday 30th May 2026, from 10am until 9pm, and Sunday 31st May 2026, from 9am until 4pm with the option for Friday night trading too, Friday 29th May 2026 from 5pm to 9pm, for our campers' only evening.

In the event that the Traders Agreement Deposit rules are broken, your deposit will not be returned.

Application Process

When submitting your application for Family Fest 2026, please email all business documents, including your Public Liability Insurance and event risk assessment, to us at hello@familyfestdorset.co.uk at your earliest convenience.

Once your application has been received by the team, along with your business documents, we will process your 2026 trading application and get back to you within 21 days to confirm whether your business, brand or charity has been successful in the application process.

If you have been successful, we will ask you to confirm your acceptance, and we will require your first payment, 50% of the invoice, including the traders pitch fee and Traders Agreement Deposit, within 14 working days to confirm your attendance for our 2026 festival, with the rest of the payments due as below.

If the first payment isn't paid within 14 days, you will be removed from our 2026 traders, and you will have to reapply.

Important Dates

Our 2026 traders' application dates can be found below.

Application Accepted: Within 21 working days of the application sent if accepted
Invoices: due as detailed above
Applications Close: Friday 8th May 2026
Documents: due by Monday 11th May 2026
Traders Festival Info: sent out by Friday 15th May 2026

Our 2026 payment dates are as follows:

50% of the invoice due within 14 days of the invoice sent
25% of the invoice due by Friday 13th February 2026
25% of the invoice due by Friday 24th April 2026

After the festival, we will write to you regarding your Traders Agreement Deposit and return this to you within 30 working days via your payment method.