January 26th 2024

An announcement from the Chelsea Fringe festival

January 2024/ After twelve years of fantastic and original events, it’s time for change at the world’s original and best alternative gardening festival. Founder-director Tim Richardson is stepping down, and the team of volunteers who organise the Fringe have decided to suspend the festival for the foreseeable future in order to focus on other work […]

March 17th 2023

Join us to find out more about this year’s Fringe. Online meeting 6pm, Tuesday 21 March, all welcome!

If you’re considering taking part in this year’s Chelsea Fringe, or even if you have already signed up, we’d love you to join us online on Tuesday 21 March, 6-7 pm, to hear and see more about the Fringe from our founder Tim Richardson and our communications and PR volunteers. What makes for a good […]

January 28th 2023

It’s January, so it must be time to think about……the Chelsea Fringe!

The twelfth Chelsea Fringe Festival will take place from Saturday 20th to Sunday 28th May 2023 Now in its twelfth year, the Chelsea Fringe celebrates community and guerrilla gardening, and encourages links between gardens and art, literature, music, cookery, history, crafts, and ecology – everything from grassroots community garden projects to avant-garde art installations. The […]

March 23rd 2022

Got A Fringe Event In Mind But Nowhere To Put It On? How About Bankside Open Spaces?

We all know it can be difficult to find open spaces for events in central London — but this year there is a fantastic opportunity for Chelsea Fringe Festival participants. Our friends at Bankside Open Spaces Trust (BOST) are making two of their open spaces available during Fringe Week, 21 – 29 May 2022, for Fringe events. […]

February 26th 2022

Everything you wanted to know about putting on a Fringe event but were too afraid to ask…

Harriot Lane Fox is part of the team that answers emails to the Chelsea Fringe inbox – she gives friendly advice on how to take part in the festival. Here she tells us more about what being a green-fingered impresario involves: What kind of projects is the Fringe looking for? The Chelsea Fringe manifesto, if […]

January 19th 2022

Dates for 2022 are 21st to 29th May

We’re now looking forward to the Chelsea Fringe 2022, which runs from 21st to 29th May, intensifying the festival buzz into a nine-day burst of excitement! That’s two weekends and everything in between. It would be fantastic to have you with us during this unique festival in 2022, whether it’s your first time or your […]

January 19th 2022

Chelsea Fringe 2022: Call for Submissions!

The Chelsea Fringe has set the date for 2022, its eleventh anniversary year, and is now open for submissions The festival runs from 21st to 29th May: that’s nine days including two weekends to fill with exciting gardening projects and events. Given the circumstances, the 2021 Fringe was a success once again. We hosted some […]

January 19th 2022

Registration Opens for Chelsea Fringe Festival 2022!

This year the Fringe (21st to 29th May) is back on the ground, alive and kicking! The Chelsea Fringe is 11 years old! The festival went ahead virtually last year, in line with restrictions.  But now we are cautiously welcoming everyone back to join us in real life! As ever we are inviting community gardeners, […]

June 4th 2019

Pictures from our Live Chelsea Fringe Festival in 2019

(Photo collage by Harriot Lane Fox). The Fringe is all about you and what you bring to the events – and there’s such delight in all of the pictures you send us. We hope you had as much fun as we did. You can still keep sending your pictures, tweets and videos to our twitter, facebook and instagram accounts.