Bowland Apple Day

Volunteers to help with apple chopping and crushing and we will also supply the apple crushers.

Apple identification by experts.

Cider and Apple Juice bars plus we will have Calvados shots available as well.

Roy Porters are supplying BBQ Apple Sausages in a Bun together with a vegan alternative

There will be a ‘produce’ stand. This will include items from Harvest Festival in church, plus jams and pickles, other produce from local gardens, and mini-pumpkins for pre-halloween.

There will be a raffle.

For the children we will have apple bobbing and face painting.

Martin Charlesworth will have a couple of apple experts on hand to identify ‘your apples’. and follow up apple ‘id’ if necessary.

We also have Folk Singers lined up for some live music.

Bowland Apple Day Tickets, Sun, Oct 12, 2025 at 12:00 PM | Eventbrite

All proceeds to Downham Village Hall Improvement Project

Please parking only in village car parks

There will be no charge for crushing your apples, but the adult £5 entrance fee will apply.

If you are bringing apples from your garden or local orchards for crushing, please note these essential instructions and terms and conditions:

You must bring your own sterilised containers for the apple juice (health and safety requirement). They can be glass bottles, but also plastic bottles re-used. They will definitely need to be properly sterilised if you want the juice to last (have a look on the internet re. method - but it is simple). Glass bottles (in fridge) may be OK to last for about 3 days. You can freeze plastic containers of the juice up to 3 months. Sterilising is absolutely your responsibility.

Apples must be delivered/brought washed and in clean bags (12kg maximum per family which will make about 4 litres of apple juice). We are able to start cutting the apples and crushing them with you from 11am (before the gates open to the public at 12 and after that).

You can deliver them to the top of our car park (labelled and weighed) to drop off from 11am, but you must take your car off-site and park in village car park before returning for the fun. As a guide, 3 kilos of apples will make about 1 litre of juice. Your apples will be crushed with others as a necessary part of the general process. No less delicious though!

They really must be washed prior to bringing. If you would like the variety separately to be identified by our experts, please save a couple and bring with a bit of branch and a leaf or two and go see them in the village hall after 12.

Hope you enjoy the day!