Marketing your event

How to amplify your event using Visit Preston

Preston is a vibrant city with a bustling event scene, which celebrates its diversity and longstanding cultural traditions. From popular annual events, such as the Encounter Festival, Central Lancashire's key cultural event, Rockprest, the UK's largest tribute act festival, and Egg Rolling, a large Easter tradition going back 150 years, to its varied quality offering of events and exhibitions taking place across the year, there's always something exciting happening for everyone to enjoy when visiting the city.

Get Noticed: List Your Event

Boost your event's exposure by listing it on Visit Preston's Events Calendar.

Complete the online form which you can find on the 'What's On' section of the Visit Preston website. Tap into a wider audience and amplify your reach.

Host a New Event or Festival

Are you looking for a new location to host your event or festival? Look no further than Preston.

Preston is a vibrant, dynamic, and developing city that is well connected via rail and road. It has a growing population both within the city centre and the suburbs. A compact city with a big heart, Preston is not afraid to take risks and has hosted many exciting events and festivals.

Organise an Event in Preston

Preston is an event-friendly city and we welcome applications to host events across a range of stunning outdoor venues.

Apply to organise an event on council land.

Get Involved with Events

There are many ways to engage in Preston's major events and we welcome interest from a wide range of organisations, businesses, communities and individuals.

Complete the expression of interest form.

Utilise Social Media

If you are creating a Facebook event, you can add Visit Preston as a co-host. However, because Facebook does not always notify page owners of co-host requests, please also send a Facebook message to Visit Preston, with a link to the Facebook event.

Additionally, you can tag @VisitPreston on X and Instagram, and where possible, your posts can be shared.