Welcome to Hurst Life’s St Lawrence Fair event page. Here you will find our most recent information for everything regarding the fair.
Since the 14th century, the village of Hurstpierpoint has celebrated the Feast of St Lawrence with a village fair. The fair is one of the oldest in the United Kingdom.
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St Lawrence Fair 2026 news will appear here when available!
By Lona McDonald
We’ve been a little quiet in the last couple of months, but you’ll slowly start to see activities picking up, with requests for help, fund raising activities and more - look out for our ever-popular Quiz night in the New Year.
Following the AGM in October, we would like to welcome back many of our previous Committee members who are staying with us for another year and a huge thank you to those who have stepped down. We also offer heartfelt thanks to all of our volunteers who helped out in the run up to the Fair and over Fair weekend itself - we couldn’t do it without you all!
We’re also pleased to confirm the Executive Committee for 2026:
Chair: Lona McDonald
Treasurer: Simon Winnard
Secretary: Paul Melling
An enormous thank you to Nic and Rachael for all their years on the Committee in various roles and for making the fair the fabulous weekend it is - thankfully they’re not going far and will still be involved in various ways - they are big shoes to fill! As always, we’re looking for more volunteers to join us, either as part of the Committee, in any way in the background or ad hoc as we get closer to and on Fair Day. Our Committee Meetings will start in January.
Some of the roles and areas we would value support in are:
• Health & Safety
• Volunteer coordinator
• Procession Lead
• Fun run co-lead
And there are many other ways a little more ‘behind the scenes’ you can be involved as well.
Now, this is where we’d like your input, as it is your Fair: we’re inviting suggestions for the 2026 theme…so please let us have your thoughts and suggestions either by email at stlawrencefair@gmail.com, or through our social media sites or our website stlawrencefair.co.uk
Depending on how many suggestions we get, we will either stick them all into a hat, or put out for a vote - any suggestions to be submitted by the end of December. If you’d like to find out more, please get in touch by email at stlawrencefair@gmail.com - we look forward to hearing from you.