Packed with a programme of spectacular spring, summer, autumn and winter events and unique spectacles, we’ve got heaps of unmissable events to help you make the most of your stay here at White Sand.
A holiday at White Sand always has something for you to do. Hardly surprising given the close association with the sea and surrounding farms, food features heavily in our major festivals in the region.
January
- 15 Winter Roast and Roam Bodiam Castle
- 20 Frontier Fortress: Guns of Dover
February
- 3 Dover Castle Ghost Tours
- 11-19 Heritage & History Bodiam Castle
- 25 Feb-4 Mar Rye Bay Scallop Festival
- 25-26 Great Dixter Open Weekend
March
April
- 14 Tulip Festival, Pashley Manor Gardens
May
- tba Open Gardens Weekend Canterbury Cathedral
June
- tba-Rye International Jazz Festival
- 2-10 RX Wildlife Festival
- 10 Taste the Best of Produced in Kent
- 14-24 Best of British Garden Festival
- 22-23 Bedgebury Forest Concert weekend
July
- 13-15 Kent County Show
- 14 Open Air Classical Concert Leeds Castle
- 18 Olympic Torch in Rye
August
- 5 Rye Raft Race
- 18 Rye Country Fair, Horse & Dog Show
- 19 Rye Maritime Festival
- 23-27 Rye Jazz Festival
- 25-27 Medieval Festival:Herstmonceux Castle
September
- 15-30 Rye Arts Festival
- 15-16 Hastings Seafood and Wine Festival
October
- 13-14 Battle of Hastings
- tba Wild Boar Festival
November
- tba Classic Car Parade
- 3-4 Firework Spectacular Leeds Castle
- 10 Rye Bonfire
December
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- 8 Rye Magical Christmas Event
- 14-15 Beer and Food Evenings Shepherd Neame