June 1st-27th

The Strutts – Exhibition 

Belper Library, Derwent Street

A display of portraits of the Strutt family who built and managed the Belper and Milford Mills. Bring your phone and download information from a QR code which will tell you more about each member of the family.

Free entry

Fri-Sun June 5th-7th 

Belper Goes Green 

Belper Meadows Cricket Club | Daily times TBC 

Belper Goes Green a three day family festival returns after a year away bigger and better, to celebrate everything the local community has to offer in an environmentally conscious way.
 

Belper Goes Green is an eco, community and arts festival in the heart of Belper, Derbyshire. Organised by Transition Belper www.transitionbelper.org/belper-goes-green/  – it is a celebration of local living, which aims to share ways of reducing our impact on the planet, whilst connecting the local community in a relaxed, safe and uplifting way.

£5.50 for the weekend, day tickets are available

Friday June 5th

Walks Festival – Belper 1776 

Start from Belper Market Place | 2pm-4pm

Part of the Belper Walks Festival 5th-21st June. What was Belper like when the Strutts first arrived in the town? Adrian Farmer explores this small 18th century community. This two hour 1.5 mile walk involves some steep climbs.

Booking essential, booking fees may apply via www.belpernorthmill.org.uk

Adults £7.50, Under 16s free

Saturday June 6th 

Walks Festival: 250 years of Waterpower – A Strutt legacy

Start from the River Gardens Bandstand | 2pm-4pm

Join experienced guide Dr Ian Jackson for a stroll around the waterways of the Belper Mill complex to hear about Belper's industrial mill owners and renewable energy generators who, for nearly 250 years, have continually improved the harnessing of the power of the Derwent. Their stewardship of the river is a story of conflict, compromise and collaboration. 

Booking essential, booking fees may apply via www.belpernorthmill.org.uk

Adults £7.50, Under 16s free

Sunday June 7th

Walks Festival: On the Trail of Slater the Traitor

Start from Belper North Mill | 1.30pm-4.30pm

Join Ian Hill on this 5.25 mile picturesque countryside walk to discover the early life of notorious Samuel Slater (‘Slater The Traitor’) and other areas of historical interest along the way. Starting at the North Mill, the walk takes you to the site of Slater’s family home, ‘New Mills’ (Milford) and the historic Holly Bush Inn for a refreshment break before returning to Belper via The Derwent Valley Heritage Way. Customers will also receive a Souvenir Map based on original hand drawing by local artist Andrew Spriggs. Well behaved dogs welcome.

Booking essential, booking fees may apply via www.belpernorthmill.org.uk

Adults £10, Under 18s £5

Wednesday June 10th

Walks Festival: The Hutfall 

Start from Belper Market Place | 7pm-8.30pm

Part of the Belper Walks Festival. Includes one steep climb. Uniquely, Belper's village field was called The Hutfall. Adrian Farmer takes an evening walk around and through this pre-enclosure space. Includes one steep climb

Booking essential, booking fees may apply via www.belpernorthmill.org.uk

Adults £7.50, Under 16s free

Friday June 12th

Walks Festival:  Belper and the Beasts

Start from The Triangle, Belper | 11am-1pm

Part of the Belper Walks Festival. There is a rich history of strange animal encounters in the town. Join Christine Smith on this 2 mile walk to explore some of the weird and wonderful tales of centuries past. There is some walking uphill and one flight of steps.

Booking essential, booking fees may apply via www.belpernorthmill.org.uk

Adults £7.50, Under 16s free

Saturday June 13th

Walks Festival: Beth’s Poetry Trail.

Start from the River Gardens Bandstand | 10.30am-1pm

The trail is named after Beth Fender, a local poet who died in 2002. As a tribute, a trail was installed with poems in various locations around Belper that take into account the setting and displayed using a sympathetic medium. The installations were commissioned from Derbyshire artists and some local poets. 

The walk will be led by two of the founders of the trail and all profits will go towards supporting the maintenance of the trail. 

Booking essential, booking fees may apply via www.belpernorthmill.org.uk

Adults £7.50, Under 16s free

Talk – Renewable Energy at Belper

Derby Museum and Art Gallery | 1.30pm

Talk by Dr Ian Jackson on '250 years of renewable energy generation at the Strutt's Belper Mills: An extraordinary story' at Derby Museum and Art Gallery.

Belper Well Dressings 

Belper Memorial Gardens, King Street

A Belper 250 theme for the anniversary year.

Free entry

Sunday June 14th

Walks Festival: Feeding Belper

Start from Belper Market Place | 2pm-4pm

An exploration of how people have been fed in Belper over the past 1,000 years, with Adrian Farmer. 

Booking essential, booking fees may apply via www.belpernorthmill.org.uk

Adults £7.50, Under 16s free 

Music: Bob Cheevers

The Queens Head, Chesterfield Road, Belper | 7pm

Bob Cheevers American singer songwriter – Country, folk and Americana 

Places can be reserved via mjones572@hotmail.co.uk

Entry £10, £8 unwaged

Tuesday June 16th

Walks Festival: Tales and Trickery

Belper North Mill car park, by the Weir | 6.30pm-8.30pm

A 3.5 mile country walk with Liz Haslam, visiting sites associated with characters from Belper folklore; a mermaid, a fairy, a witch and a ghost! On this walk we climb steep hills and it may be muddy after rain. 

Booking essential, booking fees may apply via www.belpernorthmill.org.uk

Adults £7.50, Under 16s free

Thursday June 18th

Walks Festival: History of Belper Market Place

Start from Belper Market Place | 2pm-2.45pm

A gentle stroll around this key area of the town with Christine Smith, looking at how it has changed and hearing about some colourful local characters. 

Booking essential, booking fees may apply via www.belpernorthmill.org.uk

Adults £7.50, Under 16s free

Saturday June 20th

Music: RAMSHACKLE

St Peter's Church, Belper | Doors at 6.30pm

Singers of traditional and contemporary folk and shanty songs. Refreshments at the interval

Booking essential: from https://www.ticketsource.co.uk from (booking fees may apply) and St Peter's Church, Belper.

Entry £10

Sunday June 21st

Walks Festival: The Search for Belper’s Lost Manor House

Start from Belper Market Place | 2pm-3.30pm

Part of the Belper Walks Festival. Trevor Griffin leads a one-mile circuit in parkland from Belper Market Place to find clues to the mystery of what happened to the manor house, which was once the headquarters of the royal hunting forest of Duffield Frith. We will find associated buildings, the location of a garden and water features in the setting of this beautiful ancient woodland. 

Booking essential, booking fees may apply via www.belpernorthmill.org.uk
Adults £7.50, Under 16s free

Friday June 26th

Welcome Meal Project

No.28 Market Place, Belper | 12-2pm

The Welcome Meal Project is a monthly community meal run by volunteers and offers pay-what-you-can for soup, bread and a pudding is supported by Transition Belper 

No need to book – Pay what you can

Saturday June 27th

The River Runs 

Christ Church, Belper | 7.30pm

A tribute to Jedediah Strutt and the mills which made Belper famous. Lester Simpson leads Raise Your Voices choir in a performance of combined elements from some of his previous musical projects; a millennium CD celebrating Belper’s history, commissioned by Belper Town Council, and music composed for two short films for Milford’s ‘Maypole Promotions’.  

Tickets from TicketSource and www.raiseyourvoicesww.com 

booking fees may apply.

£10 per person

Sunday June 28th

Walk: Belper Ghost Walk 

Belper Triangle | 2pm-4pm

Dare to uncover the secrets of the unseen in Belper town centre, and share your own stories as we wander the haunted streets on this easy 1 mile walk.

Booking essential, booking fees may apply via www.belpernorthmill.org.uk. 

Adults £7.50, Under 16s free

Talk: William Strutt, FRS: A Tradesman of some eminence 

No.28, Market Place | 6pm

Third of five talks at  organised by the Belper North Mill Trust. Talk by Dr Ian Jackson, the third in a series of five from the Belper North Mill Trust. The work and legacy of William Strutt, FRS, (1756 to 1830) as told by his family, friends and visitors to Derby and the Strutt's Derbyshire mills.

Booking is essential to ensure a seat, booking fees may apply online via www.belpernorthmill.org.uk
£6 per person

Earthed Up! Permaculture Course

Various | 10am-5pm

An Introduction to Permaculture inspired by our town and the Belper 250 celebrations. This unique course will consider permaculture ethics of Earth Care, People Care, Fair Shares. 

We will explore industrialisation and the Strutts social systems, reflecting on the ethics and learning about worker conditions. As a workers co-op, we are well placed to cover these topics. 

This is where the industrial revolution took hold, where the Strutt family created new industrial communities in a pastoral landscape.

There will be practical activities in meadows, by river, in town, and a community garden. 

Teas and water provided, bring your own lunch.

https://earthedup.com/learn/introduction-to-permaculture has full info; booking details and queries on pricing.

Entry £52 – £77 

TBC June

The Struttybanger 

Competition to come up with a sausage recipe that can take the name previously used for students of Herbert Strutt School, in conjunction with G B Maycocks & Sons butchers Openwood Gate.

Bobbin the Donkey 

Creating Bobbin the Donkey marketing heads for participating shops/organisations in run-up to Donkey Derby – Chris Lewis-Jones.

Text250 

Open call-out by Fleet Arts for people to submit one line about Belper, that then is put together as one poem on a decorated scroll to perform and display. TBC