Aldershot Christmas Cracker and Christmas Lights Switch On

A free festive town-centre event in Aldershot with stalls, a grotto, live entertainment and a Christmas lights switch-on with fireworks.

Aldershot town centre hosts a free festive afternoon with over 45 stalls selling crafts, seasonal goods and treats, plus a street food zone outside Princes Hall. Attractions include Father Christmas's grotto, a giant snow globe, birds of prey, a petting farm, circus skills with Juggling Jake, giant bubbles, donkeys, Lego building, street theatre, kids' crafts, fair rides and face painting (small charge for the last two). Over 100 local performers including brass bands, choirs, dance schools and buskers appear across two stages, before the countdown to the Christmas lights switch-on and a firework display in Princes Gardens from 5.10pm.