Taste AND Trading Opportunities & Events EOI 2025

Overview

Taste Ards and North Down is organising and/or attending a range of local food events both within Ards add North Down and at locations beyond our borough boundary throughout 2025.

We now invite Expressions of Interest from Taste AND members who are seeking opportunities to trade under the Taste Ards and North Down banner at the following events: 

1. Garden Show Ireland | Antrim Castle & Gardens | Friday 13 to Sunday 15 June | 4 Places
2. Creative Peninsula Twilight Market | Conway Square Newtownards | Friday 1 August | 5 Places
3. Hillsborough Palace Food Festival* | Hillsborough Palace and Demesne | Friday 8 to Sunday 10 August | 4 Places
4. Donaghadee Festival/Ulster Fry Championships | The Commons, Donaghadee| Saturday 16 and Sunday 17 August| 12 Places.
5. Bangor Chilli Festival | Bangor Walled Garden | Saturday 13 and Sunday 14 September | 15 Places
6. Taste Ards & North Down - Producer Expo | Bangor Castle Park | 27 September & 28 September 2025 | 36 Places
7. Eat Ireland in a Day | Blas na hÉireann/Dingle Food Festival | Friday 3 October to Sunday 5 October | 4 Places 
8. Samhain Food and Culture Festival*| Kells, County Meath | Saturday 1 and Sunday 2  November 2025 | 4 Places

* Event dates to  be confirmed.

This EOI does not include AND Borough Food Fest Festival events such as Comber Earlies and Tide & Turf, not does it include Love Your Food Show 2026.  

An information sheet is attached to this EOI, please ensure that you read the information on each before you apply.

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