Can you find our 12 days of Christmas displays in the Gravesham town centre? Collect a Christmas trail map from the Visit Gravesend information centre in Gravesend Borough Market, complete the trail and find the clues as you go and post the map in our Santa letter box at the market. One lucky person will win four cinema tickets to use at The Woodville during 2021. The trail starts on 20 November.

Organised by Cohesion Plus working in partnership with Gravesham Borough Council and Kent Equality Cohesion Council, this socially distanced event celebrates the coming of the festive period and replaces the popular Gravesham Festival of Christmas Lights Lantern Parade, which is impossible for us to hold this year because of COVID19 restrictions. Specially commissioned light displays will be installed at three locations, all within walking distance of each other. A labyrinth of lights will be installed in St Andrew‘s Garden by…

We have a packed calendar of events in the run up to Christmas at Gravesend Borough Market – all COVID secure, of course! Christmas Weekend Markets: There are Christmas Weekend Markets every Saturday and Sunday from Saturday 28 November until Saturday 19 December (Saturday markets are open from 9am to 5pm, Sunday markets 10am to 4pm). Spend a minimum of £5 at our Christmas markets and receive a token to claim your free daily treat.* Saturday 28 November: Free festive…

Headlights, dash cams, action! Drive-in cinema comes to Gravesham. This Christmas catch your favourite festive films from the comfort and safety of your own car at Gravesham's Drive-in Cinema. With four showings over two days on Friday 4 December and Saturday 5 December, the Drive-in Cinema at Milton Road, Gravesend, is the perfect way to get the movie fix you have been missing this year. Films being shown are - The Nativity (Friday afternoon); Gremlins (Friday evening); Home Alone (Saturday…

It is late 1868 and Charles Dickens opens his newspaper to see a plea from the Rev. Charles Robinson of Gravesend. 'Rather than spend all your money building statues and memorials to those lost at sea, spare some coins to help build our church in Gravesend so we can minister to the poor souls as they pass through our waters on their way to foreign land.' Dickens - tired from his exhausting schedule of performing A Christmas Carol at venues…

Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without the story of the Nativity and Christmas celebrations in Gravesham wouldn’t be complete without our annual telling of the story, performed in partnership with Churches Together. Sadly, because of the current restrictions we cannot stage Nativity Live around Gravesend this year, but we couldn’t let the story go untold. On Saturday 12 December you can watch the Nativity – camels included - on a big screen in Gravesend town centre, starting at 11am and playing…

Santa has a new home in Gravesham this year with a fantastic and socially distanced grotto on Gravesend Town Pier – the world’s oldest remaining cast iron pier. Take a trip through five fabulously festive and traditional scenes, each self-contained in its own booth. During your visit you’ll find yourself under a moonlit winter’s sky, riding Santa’s sleigh, visiting a traditional gingerbread house and transported to a snowy London. Santa’s elves will be working extra hard to keep everyone safe,…

This winter we are bringing some brightness into dull January with a 12 Days of Christmas Luminaire. Working with Strange Cargo, 8Point3 LED, and local artists, we are creating a festival of lights around Gravesend town centre, which will light up some of our historic buildings and feature lit sculptures themed to reflect the history, folklore and qualities of the Borough. There will also be a town centre shop window trail featuring specially commissioned illustrations based on local stories, legends…