OUR ARCHIVE
Explore each year as an editable archive record, with dates, venues, performers, photographs, press and memories added as they are verified.
Party in the Park began in 2015. This archive brings together the surviving story of each year, including material recovered from the previous website. Where information still needs checking, the archive keeps that uncertainty visible rather than guessing.
JUMP TO A YEAR
2015
This is where the modern Party in the Park story begins. On Saturday 18 July 2015, families came together at Miners’ Welfare Park for the first event in the story we are preserving today.Where the story beganThere is something special about looking…
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Party in the Park took place at Miners’ Welfare Park in 2016. The venue is organiser-confirmed while the exact dates, programme and further details continue to be rebuilt from reliable archive sources.
2017
47 archive photosBy 2017, Party in the Park was settling into Bedworth’s summer calendar, with Miners’ Welfare Park once again providing the backdrop for music, family time and a growing mix of things to see and do.A bigger day out for BedworthSaturday 8 July…
2018
67 archive photosParty in the Park returned to Miners’ Welfare Park in July 2018 for another family-focused weekend, and luckily for the archive it is also one of the early years we can see particularly well through surviving photographs.A park full of things to…
2019
34 archive photosParty in the Park was back at Miners’ Welfare Park in 2019 for another summer celebration — although nobody there could have known it would be the last normal event before a very unusual break in the story.Another summer at Miners’ Welfare…
2020
In 2020, the park went quiet. There was no normal Party in the Park as COVID-19 restrictions changed everyday life and made the kind of community gathering we all knew impossible.A very different summerParty in the Park is built around being together:…
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Saturday 17 July 2021 brought Party in the Park back after the COVID interruption — a welcome return to the simple things the event is built around: people, entertainment and spending time together.Coming back togetherOutdoorArtsUK independently recorded Party in the Park in…
2022
23 archive photosRelive Bedworth Party in the Park 2022: three days at Bedworth Rugby Club / Nicholas Chamberlaine Fields, the first themed Friday night, confirmed performers and the approved photo archive.
2023
12 archive photosParty in the Park returned to Miners’ Welfare Park for three days in July 2023, mixing a retro Friday night with a full weekend of Party On The Pitch.Friday started with The Sounds of RETROFriday 14 July had its own identity as…
2024
Party in the Park had a new home in 2024. On Saturday 13 and Sunday 14 July, families headed to Collycroft Recreation Ground as the event opened another chapter in its Bedworth story.A new home at CollycroftThe move from Miners’ Welfare Park…
2025
Party in the Park returned to Collycroft Recreation Ground on Saturday 12 and Sunday 13 July 2025, building on the move made the year before and bringing another free family weekend to Bedworth.Back at CollycroftBy 2025, Collycroft was…
2026
Relive Bedworth Party in the Park 2026 at Collycroft Recreation Ground: a free two-day community event attended by around 5,000 people, with local entertainment, traders, charities and volunteers.