Otley Coffee Festival is back
The 2024 Otley Coffee Festival is taking place on Saturday 27th April at Otley Parish Church from 10am until 4pm.
The biannual event has become a significant addition to both the coffee-lovers’ and Otley calendars.
All the exhibitors are Yorkshire-based, but the 2024 theme is outward-facing: The World in Your Cup. Both the talks programme and the exhibition will be based on that theme, considering how what we drink, eat, and buy can be better for us and the wider world in which we live.
Otley Coffee Culture is organising a great coffee festival in Wharfedale – that’s just half an hour from the centre of Leeds, Bradford and Harrogate.
If you love coffee, or simply want a great day out, our festival with great exhibitors, special offers and events will be for you.
As well as coffee
A bigger creatives exhibition is a response to the popularity of this part of the day in 2022. We have several of our own brilliant Otley-based makers – Chilli Glass and Nina Wright Ceramics will complement the painting and prints of Sarah Hughes and Jeanne-Louise Art and the watercolours of Martha Taylor – whilst from slightly further afield we are thrilled that Sarah Harris and Downtown Drawings will be exhibiting their prints, and that we will be joined by Crafts and Bubbles soaps and natural cosmetics.
Otley Coffee Festival is a not-for-profit organisation. Once again, the main recipient of any surplus monies will be Farmers’ Voice Radio, who will have a stall to allow them to explain the important work they do helping farmers (including coffee farmers) in Africa. The Otley Oxfam shop and Otley 2030 will also have a stall and will receive support from the festival.
Ian Agnew, from the Lorna Young Foundation, which runs Farmers’ Voice Radio, has been grateful for the support from the festival. It is, he said, “A great event, with a lovely, warm feel to it – very relaxed and friendly. The festival team did a fantastic job, and you had a brilliant team of volunteers.”
Ticket Sales
Tickets are now on sale from Otley Courthouse!
Tickets are available to purchase for £7 from the Courthouse, and online on their website.
Tickets will also be available on the door for £9.
Your Otley Coffee Festival ticket will give you:
Timed access to the festival hub: stands, music, competitions and children’s activities
Opportunities for free coffee tasting from different coffee roasters
10% coffee discount or similar at all coffee shops on the festival trail
A festival programme to plan your day
Children 3 and under are free.
