Hardwick Hall event The Great British Food Festival is postponed amid Covid-19 lockdown

Organisers of The Great British Food Festival have postponed their event at Hardwick Hall as the nation goes into lockdown to prevent the spread of Covid-19.

By Gay Bolton

Published 24th Mar 2020, 08:26 BST

Updated 24th Mar 2020, 15:38 BST

Great British Food Festival at Hardwick Hall has been rescheduled this year.

The festival, which was due to take place from May 8-10, has been rescheduled for September 18 to 20.

One of ten similar events around the country, the Hardwick Hall festival attracts hundreds of visitors.

Event manager Daniel Maycock said: “Obviously with the current recommendations around social distancing the events couldn’t go ahead - we hope to be ready to go later in the year. We are working on a ‘Great British Market Place’ platform on our website –www.greatbritishfoodfestival.com, the idea is that we will have lots of our fantastic, artisan food and drink producers on there, lots doing delivery. It’s free for food and drink producers to use, so we encourage any to join up on our website if they want to be included.”