FAQ Group: General info about Spoonfest

We don’t allow any commercial filming or photography during spoonfest, and discourage filming for people’s own use as much as possible. It’s so easy these days for demonstrators to be faced with a wall of phones, and it detracts so much from what we want to be an analogue event.

Personal photography for learning purposes is fine, we have all experienced that inspiring spoon that we must have a photo of.

For a general flavour of what goes on please see the What’s on page. For a few more details and times read on…

Thursday arrive any time after 4pm (no access before) set up camp, no carving on Thursday please. Food will be available and the bar open around 6.30pm. No access to the site after 8pm.

7.30pm grand opening, we split the billet, introduce our various teachers, run through some health and safety stuff. Followed by music and beer round the fire.

Workshops are booked at 9.00am each morning. Friday the workshops will tend to be more beginner’s workshops on axe and knife technique. Saturday and Sunday will be more intermediate and advanced workshops on design, decoration or fine axe control.

There will be free demonstrations and talks running throughout and the main focus of the weekend is free sharing of skills. If it is your first time you will be amazed at how friendly it is, we are all here to share and learn together.

On Sunday, we start the big clear up at 12:30pm after the morning workshop before bringing Spoonfest to a close with a final gathering for a group photo at 2pm. Everyone must be offsite by 3:30pm.

There is no camping on the field on Sunday night so if you are not traveling home immediately you need to book in to a campsite in the village.

Tickets for Spoonfest 2026 go on sale on Sunday 1st March at 11am

Spoonfest tickets will cost £115 for adults and £25 for under 18 year olds. Under 12s are free. Camping on site is incuded in the ticket price. If you want to bring a car or campervan on to the festival site you will also need to buy a vehicle pass, these cost £20.

You pay for tickets online via PayPal or Stripe. You do not need a PayPal account to do this, you can just use your credit or debit card on the secure PayPal page like any other online card payment.

All tickets are non-refundable unless we are able to re-sell them. There is a 10% non-refundable booking fee included in all tickets.

If you are unable to attend, we can offer your ticket to a member of the waiting list (if available). If we are able to re-sell your ticket, we can offer you a refund minus the 10% fee. If we are not able to re-sell your ticket, we will not be able to offer you a refund.

This ticket re-sale service is only available until 7th July for festival tickets, and 30th June for pre-fest tickets.

You are, of course, able to resell your ticket yourself, and can reallocate your ticket at any time via your original ticket email. Please note that any amendments to tickets after 25th July (when we print the list!) will not be processed.

To contact us email: spoonfestlimited@gmail.com

No you don’t need to already have a PayPal account you can just enter your credit or debit card details on the secue PayPal payment screen like any other online payment checkout.

Free camping on the Spoonfest site is included in the ticket price but if you want to stay elsewhere Edale is in the heart of the Peak District tourist area so there are B&B’s, holiday cottages and a youth hostel within walking distance for those that wish.

Yes we have specific (cheaper) tickets for under 18s and free tickets for younger children.

Please be aware that under 18 year olds must have an adult responsible for their safety at all times whilst carving. 15s and over can attend any workshop as long as their responsible adult does as well. Under 15s can only attend special workshops for their age group, at which the accompanying adult will learn techniques to support the childs learning.

We encourage folk to bring acoustic instruments, songs, poems or whatever to keep us amused round the campfire. The music has been quite special most evenings and the atmosphere is warm and encouraging, so please feel able to join in.

Carving stops in the late afternoon – we’ll make this perfectly clear. The bar opens in the early evening and the camp fires and BBQs, pizza oven etc are fired up. You can eat and drink and chat and sing.

We also run an open mic night on Friday and there’s a barn dance on Saturday and we’d love if you wanted to get involved. Players of english trad dance music are very welcome to bring their instruments along and join the Spoonfest Troubadours

No drums after 10pm please, and quiet after 12.

Of course there’s a Spoonshop!

If you would like to sell your spoons they must have a label on each one with your name and the retail price. Spoonshop takes just 10% commission.

We can now take card payments at Spoonshop!

Yes! Matthew of Woodland Craft Supplies is bringing his tool stall and of course Wood Tools axes and hook knives will be on sale, so there will be plenty of sharps to buy.

Please note: tools are not available to loan