Cropredy Village Hall
Registered UK Charity 304288
Fairport Festival 2026
The 2025 Festival seems to have been very successful and the 2026 event is starting to firm up. Further down this page, you will find the schedule for all venues at the 2026 Festival. Please note that this is incomplete, and will likely change as the Festival plans become more certain. The Village Hall will again be providing breakfast each morning from the Thursday to the Sunday.
The Village Hall Management Committee and all the volunteers wish to thank all who came to the the Village Hall for breakfast. The support you provide allows us to keep a valuable, but elderly, asset running for the benefit of the whole village. We hope to see you all again in 2026!
Fairport Breakfasts
The Village Hall's Famous Fairport Breakfast is known to set festival goers up for the day!
This page provides information on the Famous Fairport Breakfast available at Cropredy Village Hall. Below you will find a little background, together with information such as opening times and prices. There is also a section for villagers on how to volunteer to help with the Famous Fairport Breakfast. At the bottom of the page you will find a link to the all the line-ups and times at all the venues at the festival. Copies of these will be on the breakfast tables at the Village Hall but to save paper, you can take a copy from this page, or photograph the larger printed copy at the Village Hall.
A Little Background:
Cropredy Village Hall has been providing breakfasts to Festival goers for over 20 years. With the help of well over 50 volunteers and the support of the Fairport Festival Goers, this has allowed the Village Hall to benefit of the local community by keeping rental charges as low as possible, and providing funds to ensure that the Hall is well maintained. In particular this year, it has allowed major repairs to the roof to take place.
Volunteering:
Providing a full breakfast to festival-goers is a major challenge in terms of catering supplies and equipment but particularly in staffing the many roles required. Although the whole event is coordinated by the Hall Management Committee, it would not be possible to provide breakfasts without an army of around 60 volunteers (about 10% of the population of the village although some of our volunteers come from further afield including friends or family of villagers). Some of these are experienced, some are novices, but we'd like to think that all have a really good time.
We are always looking for new volunteers, so if you can spare a few hours on any (all all) of the days listed below, we'd love to hear from you. Roles that we need to fill involve: BBQing; cooking; serving breakfasts; serving tea & coffee; fetching & carrying; and clearing up.
If you would like to join our amazing team of volunteers, please contact Kate Payne on 01295 758282 or katepayne@rocketmail.com.
Opening Hours 2026:
After the success of opening on the Thursday morning, the Famous Fairport Breakfast will again be available for those arriving during Wednesday as well as those arriving on Thursday morning. The table below shows when breakfast is available during the festival.
Thursday | 9am - 12pm |
Friday | 7am - 12pm |
Saturday | 7am - 12pm |
Sunday | 7am - 12pm |
2026 All Venue, Bands and Timings:
Below you will find an image showing the venues, bands and time slots for Thursday, Friday, Saturday & Sunday. Click on the image to see a printable PDF version. Printed versions of this will also be available (no charge) at the Village Hall during breakfast service. Alternatively take a photo of the A3 poster version on the wall inside the Village Hall.
Below the schedule is a map showing all the venues in and around the village.
Factoid:
We recognise that most festival-goers refer to the festival as 'Cropredy' but this would not make sense to the residents of Cropredy who simply use the term 'Fairport' to cover the entire festival, including the fringe, and of course the Village Hall's Famous Fairport Breakfast.