Spooktacular Support for Scarefest ScareFest Newark - Saturday 29th and Sunday 30th October 2022. The Children's Bereavement Centre organised it's first Halloween festival in Newark Castle Grounds and proved a huge success. The team would like to say a huge thank you to all the local businesses, volunteers and visitors that supported our first ScareFest Newark. We could not of put on this event without: - Our sponsors, Hardy's Farndon, The Cultural Heart of Newark, Newark Advertiser - Event supporters Newark College, Simply Sweet and Newark Ghost Walk. - The 35 businesses that offered good and services free of charge and the 10 retailers involved in trail around town. - The wonderful volunteers, Ambitions Personnel who helped us set up on Friday 28th October and the additional 52 people who helped across the weekend and Monday 31st October. We has amazing support from the people that attended the event, we counted 2627 visitors across the two days. Thank you so much to everyone involved see you next year! View photos from the event on facebook Full stats from the event - Businesses engaged with: Companies contracted and paid to provide goods and services – 7 Companies that offered good and services free of charge - 35 Retailers involved in trail around town - 10 Total companies engaged with - 52 Volunteers: Friday to set up – 6 people Saturday – 20 people Sunday - 29 people Monday to clear down – 3 people Total volunteers - 58 Total hours volunteered – 327.50 People that attended the event: Saturday – 1304 Sunday – 1323 Total - 2627 Profit raised - £6,717.44 #ScareFestNewark #Halloween2023 #NewarkonTrent #ChildrensBereavementCentre Manage Cookie Preferences