Godiva Festival has announced that this year’s Main Stage will be headlined by The Verve’s Richard Ashcroft on Friday 5 July, pop phenomenon Paloma Faith on Saturday 6 July and the legendary Beverley Knight will close the festival on Sunday 7 July. Other Main Stage acts so far include Sam Ryder, The Brand New Heavies, …
Category: Parks
Bands in the Park: Chase Jazzmen
The July ECHO Events Diary lists Chase Jazzmen as appearing in Spencer Park at 2pm on 9 July. Please note that this concert will be held in Allesley Park. We apologise for publishing incorrect information. Full details of the 2023 Bands in the Park programme are here: Bands in the Park
Spencer Park Pavilion – Meeting Tonight
Music Festival Plan
There is concern locally over a Premises Licence application relating to an event planned for Hearsall Common this summer and potentially annually thereafter. The application relates to an “outdoor performance of film, dance, live music recorded music and consumption of alcohol” on an unspecified date for Friday ,Saturday, Sunday 12.00 to 23.00 for up to …
CoventryLive: War Memorial parking charges confirmed
Source: War Memorial parking charges confirmed but doubts raised over council data – CoventryLive
PARKING CHARGES AT WMP
Coventry City Council have published proposals to end unlimited free parking at the three car parks at the War Memorial Park, entered from Kenilworth Road, Leamington Road and Coat of Arms Bridge Road. The justification given for this is that long stay parkers are often not park users and take up valuable spaces, preventing park …
Campaign Ramps Up
The WMRR Campaign is crowdfunding to start the design of the new skatepark at the War Memorial Park. For more details go to WMRR Crowdfunding
Friends of the War Memorial Park
The Friends of the War Memorial Park are in the process of organising events leading up to the 100th anniversary of the opening of the Park in July 2021, coinciding with the City of Culture year, and hope to have monthly events, starting in July 2020 and leading up to a really big event in …
Skateboarders’ Petition
The War Memorial Ramp Renovation (WMRR) campaign has been set up by 5 children in years 3 and 6 at Earlsdon Primary school who are campaigning to renovate the ramps at the War Memorial Park to make the site bigger and better for everyone on wheels across the city and beyond. All 5 children are …
GODIVA FESTIVAL 2018 DATES ANNOUNCED
The Godiva Festival, which celebrates its 20th anniversary this year, is moving to a new date this summer. Festival organisers today announced the event will this year be held in the War Memorial Park from 31 August to 2 September. Contrary to what people may have heard on BBC Coventry and Warwickshire, this is NOT …