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Taking to the streets as usual!

Castle Cary and Ansford Carnival Committee are delighted to say that we will be taking to the streets of our community as usual this year! Many thanks to our new Committee members, who are bringing enthusiasm and a can-do attitude that with our existing members commitment...

CARNIVAL IN CRISIS

Act now to keep carnival on our streets! Our 2023 carnival is in serious trouble.  Castle Cary & Ansford Carnival is run by a very small team of carnival loving people, who give up their time to make sure that come October we all have something...

How to apply for a donation

Thanks to the generosity of the good people who turned out to watch our Children's Carnival and our evening Illuminated Carnival, we raised over £2000.  The vast majority of this will be donated to local charitable organisations. See attached leaflet for details of how to apply. The...

Record crowd cheers return of the carts!

Castle Cary’s narrow streets resounded to cheers from a record crowd as people flocked to celebrate the returning noise and lights of the carts, and stunning creativity of the walking entries. Encouraged by great weather, a bumper crowd gathered in Castle Cary last Saturday night to...

Illuminated carnival – final results

See below the final results for Castle Cary Illuminated Carnival 2022. The Carnival Society are so sorry that the results read out on Saturday night included a couple of errors.  We realise how upsetting it was for the members of the Clubs affected.  Many thanks for...

Make the most of your evening carnival!

Welcome to another great year of carnival in Castle Cary and Ansford. The Evening Illuminated Carnival, is on Saturday 15 October from 7pm This year, after our special shorter ‘community carnival’ route in 2021, the procession returns to its traditional route.  The parade will leave Ansford Academy...

Carnival day road closures

From 6:30pm to 11:00pm (latest) there will be mandatory road closures in place.  They will be in the centre of town on the carnival route, and on approach roads to Cary. Whilst their purpose is to ensure the evening passes safely and everyone has a great...

Making the Children’s Carnival extra special

CHILDREN’S CARNIVAL – Saturday 8 October, 3pm – 5pm.  Our fabulous Children’s Carnival procession leaves the Primary School at 3pm, parades round the town before arriving at the Market House for further entertainment including a circus skills workshop and a performance by our very own...

Carnival Night 2022

Somerset's Family Carnival, established in 1977, the date for your dairy is Saturday 15th October 2022. We hope that this year will include the best of our very special and much loved 2021 procession, and mark the return of the traditional floats. Cue noise, lights and...