The Big Reveal and Christmas Lights Switch On!

Join us for an evening of festive fun as we switch on East Grinstead’s Christmas lights and reveal all of our wonderful festive shop windows!

What’s happening and when?

• 🛍️ 2pm – 7pm – St Swithun’s Craft Market
• 🎅 4pm – 7:30pm – East Grinstead Lions Santa’s Grotto on Queens Walk
• 🎺 4:30pm – 5pm – East Grinstead Concert Band will open the event on stage at the London Road / High Street roundabout
• 🎤 5pm – Reverend Luke Whiteman will deliver a Christmas message on the stage
• 🎄 5:15pm – Town Mayor, Cllr. Stephanie Reeves will give us a big countdown before switching on The Christmas Lights!
• 5.20pm: The Big Reveal – go and stand by a shop window for the countdown to watch the unveiling. Take a look at the map on the right (click to see a full version) to see where the 60 locations are!

Enjoy the festive atmosphere while you make your way around as many of the windows as you can. The displays will be up for Christmas and the voting is open for a week so there is plenty of opportunity to see all the windows.

• 🎧 5:20pm onwards – Tree Frog DJ Disco will keep the festive atmosphere going!
• 🎺 5:30pm – 6pm – East Grinstead Concert Band return to the stage
• 🎶 6pm – Rock Choir will be performing outside Boots
• ✨ Plus, throughout the event, keep an eye out for:
  • 🤖 LED Robot stilt walker  by the Christmas tree
  • 🧚‍♀️ LED Snow Queen and Elf by the stage
  • 🛍️ Christmas Shopping

The shops will be staying open until 7:30pm, giving you plenty of time to browse the window displays and get started on your Christmas shopping!

The Big Reveal – Voting!

Voting will go live on our website as soon as all the shops have revealed their festive windows.

We will also have a voting station located on the High Street where you will be able to cast your paper votes or scan the QR code to vote online.

You will then have until Saturday 28th November at 10am to cast your vote online or until 5pm on Friday 27th for paper votes at Emma Louise.

The winner will be announced once all votes have been counted, so keep an eye on The Big Reveal Facebook page for the results.

Food and Drink

There will be plenty of food and drink vendors joining us throughout the event! The food will be spread out all along the High Street and London Road.

Please remember to bring some cash in case mobile signal affects card payments.

• High Street (from Church Lane to London Road):
  • The Burger Truck
  • Paella Fella
  • Bench
  • German Sausage
  • 1 Middle Row
  • Donuts
  • Organic Village
• London Road:
  • Burger Post
  • Pizza Post
  • Fattyz Cookhouse
  • The Cookie Pod
  • Dough and Cakes
  • The Little Green Truck
  • The Candy Stop
  • Filled Churros
  • Macks Ices

Road closures

Please be aware that the High Street and London Road (from High Street to King Street), will be closed to traffic between 3pm and 8pm. If your car is still parked here at 3pm, you will be unable to move it before 8pm when the event finishes. Wilfully breaching an official road closure order can result in a penalty of up to £1,000.

FREE Parking

All car parks in East Grinstead will be FREE from 10am for this event!

However, please walk where possible so there is enough parking available for everyone.

We can’t wait to see you there!