Spend your bank holiday Sunday at Big Penny Social for a free family festival packed with creativity, community and fun. Help create a Community Legacy Rug with Laoxa, browse a market of independent artists and makers, enjoy Ghanaian street food, family activities, DJs, a family pub quiz, Flukes Family Sundays, soak up the sun at Big Penny Beach Club, and relax in our spacious beer garden.

Make Your Mark: The Community Legacy Rug

For this year's festival, we've teamed up with Laoxa, a purpose-driven food and arts company from Tottenham founded by Lucy Ansa-Addois (fun fact: Lucy has performed at Glastonbury and Wireless!). As part of their Creative Ground programme, Laoxa are inviting everyone to help create a Community Legacy Rug inspired by the cover of Nick Sharratt's much-loved children's book, Shark in the Park.

Pop by and get your hands stuck in, whether you're a seasoned rug tufter or picking it up for the very first time, the Laoxa team will be right there to help you stitch a piece of book history into the artwork. Once finished, the rug will be professionally completed and permanently installed in a local primary school, along with an engraved plaque naming every person who helped make it.

They will also be showcasing the Yellow Telephone storytelling experience: a chance to pick up the receiver and leave a message for your future self. It's a lovely, low-key moment of reflection built to spark creativity, confidence, and connection.

While you're there, treat your tastebuds too: Laoxa will be serving up Ghanaian soul food built on four generations of home-cooked recipes, think jollof rice and grilled chicken, alongside edible art cupcakes that are almost too pretty to eat.

Meet the Vendors

A brilliant lineup of makers, artists, and small businesses will also be set up around Big Penny for the day. 

Ella de Souza
An East London illustrator known for colourful, fun-filled work. She'll have cards, original art, and sticker sheets for sale, plus hand-drawn ink and watercolour portraits from £25, painted live from a photo or from life.

Wood & Proper (founder Tijan Sealy) 
3D map art crafted from wood, moss, and coloured card, celebrating the places that matter to you, from your hometown to your favourite holiday spot.

Caroline Facepaints 
Summer-themed face painting and glitter for young visitors, 12pm–6pm. Expect rainbows, sunsets, unicorns, and butterflies for the kids, plus a bit of glitter for the grown-ups too.

Crumpet's Closet (founder Abby)
Handmade matching accessories for pets and their people, all inspired by one very stylish pup named Crumpet. Every piece is made with comfort, quality, and a love of matching in mind.

Libertine Rebel 
South London hand-poured soy wax candles and vegan room diffusers designed to fill your space with inspiring scent. Plus, a tree is planted with every sale!

Thomas Chisholm Printmaker
Walthamstow-based printmaker working in woodcut and linocut, drawing much of his inspiration from the Walthamstow Wetlands.

Geoberri Studios (Georgia Salisbury) 
Textile art and free-motion embroidery exploring magical realism and nostalgia, made mostly from recycled fabric donated by the local community.

Sonia Kang Designs
Colourful, hand-painted art and gifts inspired by the artist’s South Asian heritage, nature, and emotion, with some pieces featuring traditional Punjabi mirrors.

Ronnie Makes Things 
Self-taught artist blending Polish folk art with the experience of growing up as an immigrant in London, featured in Seedlings magazine.

Tloczuss
Illustrations that blend traditional and digital techniques into quiet, magical, Japan-inspired escapes, from original paintings to glow-in-the-dark stickers.

KEYES (founder Katey Jackson) 
Contemporary, handcrafted jewellery made from 100% recycled sterling silver with eco-conscious packaging, built to be worn and loved for years.

Lauren Humphrey 
Margate-based illustrator creating colourful prints inspired by food, flowers, and everyday joy.

Tracy Gidley Design 
Pencil sketches and knitted goods, with mixed media increasingly finding its way into her latest pieces.

Your Nür Studios (founder Shaheenur Khan) 
Expressive, slightly surreal paintings exploring memory, emotion, and the quieter parts of the mind, shaped by an architecture background and a deep interest in how spaces shape us.

And there's even more, across Big Penny Social, you'll also find:

• DJs bringing the bank holiday spirit
• Family Pub Quiz
• Games for all the family at Flukes Family Sundays (12+)BOOK FLUKES
   
• Big Penny Beach Club, open and bookable as usual with special programming TBA
  
  BIG PENNY BEACH CLUB
   
• Our sprawling beer garden, perfect for sunny afternoons