Author: Newport Carnival

Shademakers, who performed at the Queen’s Jubilee Pageant, will be taking part with their 250-member group including the now world-famous, Ventnor Comic Jazz Band! You can watch a clip of Shademakers and Ventnor Comic Jazz Band below! Photographs: Shademakers UK/Facebook (photographer unknown) // Video: BBC Studios

Newport Carnival & Community Events Association have held their second car boot sale of the year today (Sunday 8th May) at the Isle of Wight County Show Ground raising money for charity. The carnival association teamed up with Wessex Cancer Trust (Isle of Wight) to raise as much money as

Titan the Robot is making his way to Newport to celebrate 100 years of Newport Carnival! The Titan the Robot’s wisecracking antics have become the stuff of legends and his show is unrivalled in the world today! Funny, fast-paced and full of surprises, Titan is the ultimate family entertainment show

How do you fancy being a part of Newport Carnival’s 100th-anniversary celebrations? Newport Carnival’s Royalty Selection Evening takes place on Friday 8th April 2022 at the Arty Crafty Party Shop at 15 High Street, Newport PO30 1SS. Registration is from 6pm with judging commencing at 7pm. Anyone in school year

Newport Carnival & Community Events Association will host a Good Friday Quiz Night at Newclose Cricket Ground in Blackwater on Friday 15th April 2022. There is only a limited number of spaces so make sure you book up your team fast. For more information and to book, visit – newportcarnival.com/quiz

Newport Carnival will offer something a little bit special this summer – thanks to a donation from Southern Vectis’ Community Fund. The town’s carnival is celebrating 100 years in 2022, and its committee applied to the bus operator’s Community Fund to help mark the impressive milestone in style. Paddy McHugh,

Isle of Wight Riverfest was launched in 2008 by the Isle of Wight Council. The event was taken over by The Footprint Trust in 2010 and has become the biggest free community event in Newport, attracting some 4,000 people annually. Due to the Covid pandemic, the event had to be

We would like to take this opportunity to say a very Merry Christmas from the whole team at Newport Carnival. It has been another one of those years where we hoped to hold our annual carnivals but were forced to take the safe option and cancel them. Plans have been

Newport Carnival has received a generous £220 raised from a signed Star Wars print in a raffle that was launched in the summer. Tony Little was the winner of the print. Event organiser Paddy McHugh said: “A massive thank you to Silver Screen Autographs’ Sharon and Martin at the New

Newport Carnival have proven popular with the Asda Green Tokens Giving Scheme! The news we have been waiting for was announced on the 1st December that we, Newport Carnival, came first place. We are so grateful for everyone who voted for us, it has meant a lot and will help