The Houghton Feast Trust

What an amazing Houghton Feast 2025! 🐂✨ Our Trustees are already ‘cooking’ up plans for next year’s celebrations! Got photos from this year’s Feast? Drop them in our inbox - they could appear in the 2026 programme! 📸

❤️ Supporting local food banks thanks to a donation from Staffpower Group - Recruitment & Training. 📣 Thanks also go to Simply Irresistible - Washington for support of this event.

Roasted Ox sandwiches will be served on Saturday 4th October 2025 from 1pm at The Old Rectory. 🌐 Order now: oxsarnies.com 💷 CASH/CARD/CONTACTLESS ACCEPTED ON THE DAY

With grateful thanks to local showman Asa James Smith and Simply Irresistible Catering for once again supporting the Houghton Feast Whole Ox Roasting. 🗓️ Ox sandwiches go on sale at 1pm on Saturday October 4th 2025.

💬 Trustees were pleased to hear of the Government’s intentions to compile an Inventory of Living Heritage, of which festivals will be one of the seven categories. Trustees agreed to encourage the public to nominate the Feast when the call for submissions opens in the summer.

🎤 Trustees looked forward to finally brining back The Voice of Houghton-le-Spring singing competition with online auditions and the chance for the winner to perform at Houghton Feast 2025.

🐂 At their April 2025 meeting, Trustees discussed plans for this year’s Houghton Feast ox roasting and agreed to further involve local food banks after the success of the sell-out ox roasting event at Houghton Feast 2024.

With thanks to our friends at Events2gogo who have kindly sponsored our Ox Roast flyer. Young volunteers will be dishing these out as part of their Duke of Edinburgh’s Award volunteering. ❤️🐗

In 3 weeks’ time: we will be serving Roast Ox sandwiches on Saturday 5th October 2024 from 1pm at The Old Rectory. 🌐 Order now: oxsarnies.com 💷 CASH/CARD ACCEPTED ON THE DAY 📣 Thanks also go to Simply Irresistible - Washington for support with this event.

With grateful thanks to local showman Asa James Smith and Simply Irresistible for once again supporting the Houghton Feast Whole Ox Roasting. 🗓️ Ox sandwiches go on sale at 1pm on Saturday October 5th 2024. 🌐 oxsarnies.com

Great to see our Houghton Feast ox roasting advert in the latest edition of Sunderland and South Tyneside CAMRA ANGLE magazine. Pick up your free copy in public houses. ❤️🐗

The whole ox is cooking nicely. Sandwiches served up from 1pm at The Old Rectory on Saturday. ❤️🐗 #oxroast

Three cheers for volunteers, supervising the roasting whole ox at Houghton Feast. ❤️🐗

Our volunteers are busying getting ready for the sale of roast beef sandwiches from the whole ox roasting at Houghton Feast. Sandwiches on sale from 1pm on Saturday Oct 7th 2023. ❤️🐗

For every sandwich sold at the Houghton Feast whole ox roasting, one is being donated to a local food bank. ❤️🐗

A roasted whole ox, prepared overnight by volunteers from The Houghton Feast Trust, will be served up in sandwiches in the grounds of The Old Rectory, where the first oxen were roasted by Houghton’s 16th century Rector Bernard Gilpin to feed his hungry parishioners.

Trustees had a short meeting tonight to discuss the forthcoming festival of Houghton Feast. Boris the Dog was voted in as a new Trustee! He is particularly looking forward to the roasted ox!

It's a highlight in city's cultural calendar: sunderlandecho.com/whats-on/thing…

Our volunteers are out delivering flyers promoting the Houghton Feast ox roasting. We are very lucky to have so much support from the community. ❤️🐗 #HoughtonFeast

With grateful thanks to Print2GoGo, Newbottle Street, for printing our flyers. Community volunteers will be dishing them out soon, including students from a SEND School to help with their Duke of Edinburgh’s Award. We are very lucky to have such kind helpers! ❤️🐗