Held on the first Saturday of each month is Ruddington Village Market. It’s a super summer shopping experience. There’s always a huge variety of stalls on The Green. Market day is also a great chance to stroll around and visit many of Ruddington’s local shops, too. On Saturday 1st July, over seventy-five traders are expected from 9am until 2pm on the village green. The listing of visiting retailers, with their corresponding stall numbers, is shown on the map below: The monthly market is a project of the award winning Ruddington Village Community Partnership (RVCP). The market has…
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Held on the first Saturday of each month, Ruddington Village Market is a super shopping experience. There’s always a huge variety of stalls on The Green. Market day is also a great chance to stroll around and visit many of Ruddington’s local shops, too. On Saturday 3rd June, over seventy traders are expected from 9am until 2pm on the village green. The listing of visiting retailers, with their corresponding stall numbers, is shown on the map below: The monthly market is a project of the award winning Ruddington Village Community Partnership (RVCP). The market has…
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A right royal event! There’ll be stalls to street food & drink – even a ‘royal-themed photo booth’ and you can watch a free live screening of King’s Charles’ procession and crowning ceremony at May’s Market Day. Read Ruddington’s events for the Coronation >>HERE<<. Held on the first Saturday of each month, Ruddington Village Market is a super shopping experience. There’s always a huge variety of stalls on The Green. Market day is also a great chance to stroll around and visit many of Ruddington local shops, too. On Saturday 6th May, about seventy…
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Thanks to King Charles III, this year we’re getting no less than THREE Bank Holiday Mondays during May. For most villagers, the most significant of these is this coming weekend, 6th to 8th May 2023, when Ruddington will once again be pulling out all the stops to celebrate the Coronation of our new monarch. Village centre businesses such as The Honeycomb Christian Charity Shop (pictured top) are already decorated and stocked up for the occasion! Before that, this Friday (May 5th) children attending St Peter’s Junior School will will be…
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Our village’s regular, acoustic music night has a new venue for 2023. From now on its sessions will take place at Ruddington Conservative Club – still on the 3rd Thursday of each month. After seven years at The Cottage Hotel, rising costs for the venue meant it could no longer offer its facilities free gratis for ‘Ruddington Rhythm’ this year – and organiser Ron McSweeney {pictured top left} did not wish to introduce an entrance charge. However, having missed only a month, he was welcomed by the Kempson Street venue to continue his gatherings there instead –…
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The team behind Ruddington’s popular monthly market is ready to pull out all the festive stops next Saturday, as ‘Ruddington Village Christmas Market’ returns for 2022. Organised by the Ruddington Village Community Partnership (RVCP), this year’s Christmas market is set to be an even bigger event after the wet and windy market of 2021; with over 100 indoor and outdoor stalls of food, drink and gifts, two covered pop-up bars and stages of live music, and children’s activities. In a change to the format from last year, the Christmas market…
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On Sunday 6th November Ruddington’s famous ‘Fireworks Spectacular’ is taking place at the Nottingham Transport Heritage Centre. {Please note that it is NOT SATURDAY 5TH as has previously been listed on the web.} NTHC’s annual evening display for Guy Fawkes night features a funfair, hot food, sweet stalls and sideshows. There’ll be a licensed bar and live music. Also the model railway and miniature train rides will be available. However, bear in mind NTHC’s 2022 event does not include a bonfire nor ‘big’ trains running a heritage rail service. You can pay…
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Join in Sunday’s final day of Ruddington events to celebrate Her Majesty’s record breaking reign – taking place at various village venues. To mark the The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, our village has been decorated with red, white and blue flowers, ribbons, flags and yarn bombing displays. There’s even amazing new graffiti artwork to go and see on Sellors’ Playing Field (below). Also there’s ‘Life in Ruddington’ at the library, created in partnership by Ruddington Museum & Ruddington History Society, and the history of the Ruddington WI inside the Framework Knitters’ Museum…
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