Santa's Grotto
2023-12-01 10:30 - 16:00 (Europe/London) | Santaâ€™s Grotto, 35 Princes Walk, northampton, Northamptonshire, NN1 2EW, United Kingdom
Come and see Santa for only £1 in the Grosvenor Centre

Cinderella Christmas Family Panto 2023
2023-12-01 19:00 - 21:00 | The Old Savoy â€“ The home of The Deco Theatre, Abington Square, Northampton, Northamptonshire, NN1 4AE
Join us for the Most Magical Panto of all – Cinderella Christmas 2023
Next Christmas you’re invited to a Royal Ball at The Old Savoy the home of the Deco Theatre . This wonderful rags-to-riches tale is guaranteed to delight all the family and bring a touch of magic and make-believe to your festive celebrations.
Join Cinderella on her quest to win the heart of the dashing Prince Charming, with a little help from her best friend Buttons and the enchanting Fairy Godmother. But with her evil Ugly Sisters determined to ruin her chances and the clock about to strike midnight, will Cinders manage to win the Prince’s love before the spell runs out?

Nightshift
2023-12-01 21:00 - 23:00 | The Wig And Pen, 19 St Giles' St, northampton, Northamptonshire, NN1 1JA, United Kingdom

Festive Celebration in Northampton’s Cultural Quarter
2023-12-02 11:00 - 16:30 | town centre
Jazz bands and street entertainers will provide the festive cheer as shoppers enjoy Christmas shopping in St Giles Street on Saturday, 2nd December.

Acts will include Musical Ruth, Elton Wrong, the Bad Santas, a juggling unicyclist and stilt-walking ice queens. Montague Jeffery and Vintage Guruwill also be staging live music performances.

The BID has successfully applied for a road closure order on this date so shoppers will be able to walk freely down the street and cafes and restaurants will be able to trade outside on the pavements, creating a welcoming community feel to the day.

Come along between 11am and 4.30pm and get all the Christmas feels as we kickstart the festive season in style.

Gaming Club at Northamptonshire Central Library
2023-12-02 12:00 - 16:00 | Northampton Central Library, Abington Street, Northampton, Northamptonshire, NN1 2BA, United Kingdom
Fancy a game of D&D? Or maybe you would to try something a little different? Try our Gaming Club hosted at Northampton Central Library in our Young Adults Area.
This event is suitable for people aged 14+

Time To Share at Northamptonshire Central Library
2023-12-02 14:30 - 15:30 | Northampton Central Library, Abington Street, Northampton, Northamptonshire, NN1 2BA, United Kingdom
Time To Share is the perfect activity for children of all ages and their grown ups!
Each month we will focus on a new theme and each week we will focus on a new book.
There will be a mixture of fiction and non-fiction books with matching crafts or activities!
This is a free drop in event.

BAD MANNERS
2023-12-02 19:30 - 21:30 | Roadmender, 1 Lady's Ln, Northampton, Northamptonshire, NN1 3AH, United Kingdom
BAD MANNERS ARE THE BEST IN BRITISH SKA KNOWN FOR THEIR CRAZY ANTICS AND 2 TONE TRACKS. OUTRAGEOUS AND ENIGMATIC, THEY REMAIN AS ONE OF THE COUNTRIES BEST LOVED LIVE ACTS. AFTER A HUGELY SUCCESSFUL SUMMER PLAYING FESTIVALS ALL OVER THE WORLD THEY RETURN TO THE CLUB SCENE FOR THEIR ANNUAL CHRISTMAS TOUR WITH SPECIAL GUEST PUNK LEGEND MAX SPLODGE. TICKETS WILL CERTAINLY FLY OUT FOR THIS SHOW!! DON’T MISS OUT !
“DEFINITELY A “MUST SEE” GIG FOR ANYONE’S TO DO LIST. SEE YOU DOWN THE FRONT!” – LOUDER THAN WAR!
FRONTED BY BUSTER BLOODVESSEL (AKA DOUGLAS TRENDLE) THE BAND FORMED IN LONDON DURING 1976 WHILST ALL MEMBERS WERE STILL IN SCHOOL TOGETHER. BY 1980 THE BAND WERE SIGNED TO MAGNET RECORDS AND WERE REGULAR GUESTS ON THE SATURDAY MORNING KIDS TELLY PROGRAMME TISWAS.
THEIR HIT SINGLES INCLUDE LIP UP FATTY, SPECIAL BREW, NE NE NA NA NA NA NU NU, CAN CAN, WALKING IN THE SUNSHINE, JUST A FEELING AND THEIR COVER OF MY GIRL LOLLIPOP.
BETWEEN 1980 AND 1983 THEY SPENT 111 WEEKS IN THE UK SINGLES CHART, THEY HAVE PRODUCED NINE STUDIO ALBUMS AND SKANKED THEIR WAY INTO THE WORLD’S HEARTS. THEY INITIALLY DISBANDED IN 1987 BUT RETURNED ONLY THREE YEARS LATER DUE TO MASSIVE PUBLIC DEMAND.

The Retro
2023-12-02 21:00 - 23:00 | The Wig And Pen, 19 St Giles' St, northampton, Northamptonshire, NN1 1JA, United Kingdom

Women's Wellness Walk
2023-12-03 11:00 - 12:00 | Saints Coffee, 62 St Giles' St, Northampton, Northamptonshire, NN1 1JW, United Kingdom

Make your own trainers: Kids arts and crafts
2023-12-03 12:00 - 15:00 | Grandbies, 26 St Giles' St, northampton, Northamptonshire, NN1 1JA, United Kingdom
Come and join an afternoon of fun where your children will have the opportunity to make their own trainers through sticking and painting and arts and crafts. This is a really fun event. We have 25 places open for this event. This will sell fast!!!!!

Six Feet Apart
2023-12-03 16:00 - 18:00 | The Wig And Pen, 19 St Giles' St, northampton, Northamptonshire, NN1 1JA, United Kingdom

Jazz Night
2023-12-03 18:00 - 20:00 | VnB, 10 St Giles' Square, Northampton, Northamptonshire, NN1 1DA, United Kingdom

THERAPY
2023-12-03 19:00 - 22:30 | Roadmender, 1 Lady's Ln, Northampton, Northamptonshire, NN1 3AH, United Kingdom
THERAPY? MAKE A WELCOME RETURN TO THE ROADMENDER WITH THEIR FIRST SHOW AT THE VENUE IN OVER 8 YEARS AS PART OF THEIR FORTHCOMING TOUR.
COMING TOGETHER IN CO ANTRIM NORTHERN IRELAND IN 1989 THE ROCK 3 PIECE HAVE OVER THE COURSE OF THREE DECADES CARVED THEIR OWN PATH FROM EARLY MINI ALBUMS ‘BABYTEETH’ & ‘PLEASURE DEATH’ TO GENRE-DEFYING MAINSTREAM SUCCESS IN THE 90’S WITH GOLD-CERTIFIED ALBUMS ‘TROUBLEGUM’ & ‘INFERNAL LOVE’. THE BAND RACKED UP OVER A DOZEN TOP 40 SINGLES WITH SOME CERTIFIED CLASSICS SUCH AS TEETHGRINDER, SCREAMAGER, NOWHERE & STORIES.
WITH NO SIGN OF SLOWING DOWN AS THE BAND ENTER THEIR 4TH DECADE THEY HAVE JUST RELEASED THEIR 16TH STUDIO ALBUM ‘HARD COLD FIRE’ TO MUCH CRITICAL ACCLAIM.

Comedy Crate
2023-12-05 20:00 - 22:00 | VnB, 10 St Giles' Square, Northampton, Northamptonshire, NN1 1DA, United Kingdom
The Comedy Crate are back and bringing 4 funny friends with them. Tickets available on the comedy crates website £10pp

Christmas Lyric Trail
2023-12-06 | town centre
We have teamed up with West Northamptonshire Council to stage an interactive Christmas song lyric trail around the town centre throughout December.
Using the LoyalFree app, visitors to the town will be given a list of locations to visit where they need to answer questions and complete the lyrics from favourite Christmas songs.
The LoyalFree app can be downloaded by visiting www.loyalfree.co.uk/download or by searching for ‘LoyalFree’ in your app store.
The Christmas Song Lyric Trail is delivered by Northampton Town Centre BID and funded by West Northamptonshire Council.

Golden Ticket Giveaway Competition
2023-12-06 | town centre
Enter our Golden Ticket Giveaway for the chance to win one of four £500 vouchers to spend in the town centre.
Our popular Golden Ticket giveaway will be launching on Saturday 18th November as part of the Wonka-themed Family Fun Day in Grosvenor Shopping Northampton.

Available in town centre shops and businesses, visitors have the chance to pick up their Golden Ticket and post into one of the 10 specially commissioned post boxes found around the town.
Simply complete it, post it, and you might just win it!
We are once again looking forward to spreading a bit of festive cheer this Christmas and our Golden Ticket giveaway is the perfect way to put smiles on the faces of four lucky families.
Winners will be drawn at random on Monday 18th December.

Post box locations

Abington FX (Abington Street)

Esquires Coffee (Dychurch Lane)

Grosvenor Shopping

Kall Kwik (Abington Street)

Mail Boxes Etc (Gold Street)

Market Square News (Mercers Row)

Shipmans (The Drapery)

Turtle Bay (Gold Street)

Vintage Guru (St Giles Street)

Voni Blu (Castilian Street)

Need a Golden Ticket?
Simply download your golden ticket and post into one of the 10 post box locations listed above, before close of business on Sunday 17th December.

Bounce and Rhyme at Northamptonshire Central Library
2023-12-06 10:30 - 11:00 | Northampton Central Library, Abington Street, Northampton, Northamptonshire, NN1 2BA, United Kingdom
Sessions to introduce rhymes and songs to your child to encourage interaction and develop communication skills.
Please note that the Bounce and Rhyme sessions will be run on a first-come, first-serve basis on the day and it will not be possible to book in advance. Parents and Carers can collect a ticket from the front desk on the Friday morning at 10am. This event is for under 1s and non-walkers only.

Stick Man
2023-12-07 10:30 - 12:30 | Royal and Derngate Theatre, 19-21 Guildhall Road, Northampton, Northamptonshire, NN1 1DP
Touching, funny and utterly original, Freckle Productions’ delightful adaptation of Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s Stick Man is coming to Northampton for Christmas 2023!
What starts off as a morning jog becomes quite the misadventure for Stick Man: a dog wants to play fetch with him, a swan builds a nest with him, and he even ends up on a fire! How will Stick Man ever get back to the family tree?
This award-winning production, from the team behind Zog and Zog And The Flying Doctors, features a trio of top actors and is packed full of puppetry, songs, live music and funky moves.

BINGO LOCO
2023-12-08 18:00 - 20:00 | Roadmender, 1 Lady's Ln, Northampton, Northamptonshire, NN1 3AH, United Kingdom
BINGO LOCO NORTHAMPTON
BINGO LOCO IS COMING TO YOU AFTER SOLD OUT SHOWS IN DUBLIN / NEW YORK / SYDNEY / VANCOUVER + 200 OTHER DESTINATIONS AROUND THE WORLD.
GEAR UP FOR A NIGHT OF BINGO MADNESS FEATURING HILARIOUS HOSTS, DJS PLAYING THE BEST OF 90S/00 MUSIC, CONFETTI SHOWERS, DANCE OFFS, LIP SYNC BATTLES AND INCREDIBLE PRIZES RANGING FROM INTERNATIONAL HOLIDAYS TO LAWNMOWERS.”
LOCATION – ROADMENDER
SHOW TIME: 6PM-10PM
GET YOUR TICKETS BELOW!

Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs
2023-12-08 19:00 - 21:00 | Royal and Derngate Theatre, 19-21 Guildhall Road, Northampton, Northamptonshire, NN1 1DP
Don’t miss this year’s hilarious, fun-filled family pantomime.
Playing the dashing Prince Charming will be TV presenter, actor and Strictly winner Ore Oduba, while Coronation Street superstar Wendi Peters will play the Wicked Queen, with the hilarious and much-loved Bob Golding returning as our dame, Nurse Nellie. The Magnificent Seven will be lead by Sarge, played by Dean Whatton (Game Of Thrones).
One of Britain’s most treasured comedians (and Northampton’s very own), Alan Carr, will appear as the Magic Mirror!* Alan Carr’s video appearance is in aid of Neuroblastoma UK, a charity which Alan is a proud patron of.
The show will be written by Paul Hendy and produced by the award?winning Evolution, the same team behind last year’s smash-hit Jack And The Beanstalk and 2021’s brilliant Dick Whittington.
With lavish sets, hilarious jokes and fun for the whole family, what’s not to love. And this year’s Panto is extra exciting because our brilliant Youth Theatre & Young Company Musicals group are taking to the stage alongside our stars as our Community Ensemble! Hi-ho, it’s off to panto you go!
*Alan Carr will appear on screen in a pre-recorded video

Bridget Christie: Who Am I?
2023-12-08 19:30 - 21:30 | Royal and Derngate Theatre, 19-21 Guildhall Road, Northampton, Northamptonshire, NN1 1DP
Bridget Christie is hot, but not in a good way. The 51 year old critically-acclaimed stand-up leaks blood, sweats, and thinks that Chris Rock is the same person as The Rock.
The Foster’s Edinburgh Comedy Award-winning comedian cannot ride the motorbike she bought to combat her mid-life crisis because of early osteoarthritis in her hips and RSI in her wrist; and wonders why there are so many films, made by men, about young women discovering their sexuality, but none about middle-aged women forgetting theirs. It’s a menopause laugh-a-minute with a confused, furious, sweaty lady who is annoyed by everything.
Brand new show from the Rose d’Or and South Bank Sky Arts Award-winner, star of her own Netflix special, Taskmaster favourite, Channel 4 sitcom The Change and BBC Radio 4 series Bridget Christie Minds The Gap and Mortal.
Photo Credit: Natasha Pszenicki

Funk Odyssey
2023-12-08 21:00 - 23:00 | The Wig And Pen, 19 St Giles' St, northampton, Northamptonshire, NN1 1JA, United Kingdom

Brass Band on the front
2023-12-09 11:00 - 13:00 | VnB, 10 St Giles' Square, Northampton, Northamptonshire, NN1 1DA, United Kingdom

Brass Band on St Giles Square
2023-12-09 12:00 - 13:30 | VnB, 10 St Giles' Square, Northampton, Northamptonshire, NN1 1DA, United Kingdom

Fleetwood Town
2023-12-09 15:00 - 17:00 | Sixfields stadium, Sixfields Stadium,, Northampton, Northants, NN5 5QA, United Kingdom

Nabil Abdulrashid: The Purple Pill
2023-12-09 19:30 - 21:30 | Royal and Derngate Theatre, 19-21 Guildhall Road, Northampton, Northamptonshire, NN1 1DP
Chambers Touring Proudly Presents
Nabil Abdulrashid: The Purple Pill
A show about trying to be a good person while staying a badman.
Join the star of Live at the Apollo for this “unapologetically funny” (Telegraph) exploration of empathy, morality and political contradiction. ???? Evening Standard
As seen on Live at the Apollo, Have I Got News for You, The Big Narstie Show, 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown and Unapologetic.

ROACHFORD
2023-12-09 19:30 - 21:30 | Roadmender, 1 Lady's Ln, Northampton, Northamptonshire, NN1 3AH, United Kingdom

Soul D
2023-12-09 21:00 - 23:00 | The Wig And Pen, 19 St Giles' St, northampton, Northamptonshire, NN1 1JA, United Kingdom

Men's Wellness Walk
2023-12-10 11:00 - 12:00 | Saints Coffee, 62 St Giles' St, Northampton, Northamptonshire, NN1 1JW, United Kingdom

Accrington Stanley
2023-12-10 16:00 - 18:00 | The Wig And Pen, 19 St Giles' St, northampton, Northamptonshire, NN1 1JA, United Kingdom
