Community Festival will take place 1st July 2018 in Finsbury Park, London.
The doors will open at 11.30am.
Box Office opening times: 10:00 – 21:00
Please note this event is no readmission. Please ensure you have everything you need with you before you enter.
The music will end at 22:00.
You will leave the festival through a different exit to the one where you arrived.
Click here to download our Community 2018 map.
Large bags are not allowed to be taken into the festival. There is no cloakroom (Lockers are available for small valuables). Small bags are allowed into the festival with the dimensions W21cm x H30cm x D8cm (A4 Size).
Bags will be searched on entry to the event, to avoid lengthy queues we strongly advise that you do not bring a bag. We appreciate your cooperation and patience when entering the festival.
Bags must not be left at entrances or surrounding areas. Any items left will be removed and disposed of accordingly.
You will also be searched at the entrance to the event which may include a full body pat down and/or use of hand held metal detectors. Any item(s), which may reasonably be considered for use as a weapon, or which may cause danger or disruption to any other persons at the event, will be confiscated.
Please allow plenty of time to get into the event, and for concert entry procedures, ticket checks and searches.
Persons suspected of carrying items that may be used in an offensive or dangerous manner, or carrying out illegal activities within the arena or other parts of the site may be searched.
If you lose anything at Community Festival 2018, please contact [email protected]
Please clearly describe the item you lost and provide your full contact details so we can get it back to you safe and sound.
Community Festival is not suitable for young children. Children under 5 (aged 4 or below) are not permitted.
Children under 16 years old must be accompanied by a parent or guardian (18 or over) at all times and will need a full price ticket.
If you see tickets advertised anywhere other than official outlets you stand a good chance of getting ripped off. This is because the terms and conditions of sale and entry state that tickets are non-transferable, which means that once purchased you can’t sell them on to others for profit. If you do buy from an unauthorised source you stand a good chance of being refused entry. Festival Republic will be unable to assist you if you have bought from an unauthorised source, as we will have no purchase history available for the ticket.
Please bring ID if you look under 21 years old and remember that legally there is no automatic right to be served alcohol. Service is always at the discretion of the licensee for whatever reason they decide, and the licensee is under no obligation to explain the reason.
The only accepted proof of age documents are:
New for 2018: You are no longer permitted to bring soft drinks or water in the festival. You are permitted to bring empty bottles sized 500ml or less to use at water refill points inside the festival.
New for 2018: You are no longer permitted to bring soft drinks or water in the festival. You are permitted to bring PLASTIC empty bottles sized 500ml or less to use at water refill points inside the festival.
You can take snacks into the festival for your own consumption.
No drinks will be admitted on site. Empty plastic bottles sized 500ml or less will be permitted for refilling.
Please don’t bring any alcohol or glass containers/bottles of any sort.
We hope you love Finsbury Park as much as we do and want to help us keep it one of London’s favourite green spaces. We are dedicated to reducing the environmental impact of the festival and need your help to make it happen.
Last year the carbon footprint of the festival was 192 tonnes of CO2e, we want to reduce it this year.
The emissions from travelling to the festival make up 80% of the entire festivals carbon footprint (source: The Show Must go On Report, 2015).
Coach travel and public transport is much better for the environment. See the Big Green Coach pick up locations here and the best way to travel via public transport here.
Read The Show Must Go on Report here.
We run a three-bin system at the festival, which means every bin station will be formed by 3 bins:
COMPOST – When you buy food from the traders at Community Festival, everything your food comes in is compostable so plates, cutlery and napkins can be placed in the compost bins along with the food scraps. Please make sure NO PLASTIC goes into the compost.
RECYCLE – Plastic bottles, aluminium cans, newspapers, magazines and clean and dry cardboard (no used greasy pizza boxes as these do not recycle).
GENERAL WASTE – There should be minimal left over that goes into General Waste.
Every butt has to be picked up by hand, so it would be awesome if you did not flick your cigarette and put it out before you bin it.
Tap water is free. Please feel free to refill your bottles at the taps provided.
We have joined forces with the Greenpeace events team again this summer to help festival-goers stem the tide of plastic pollution which is one of the greatest threats to our oceans. All plastic bottles and cups bought at Community will have a 10p refundable deposit.
10 x cups and bottles = £1
1 x full recycling bag of bottles = £5.
Up to 12.7 million tonnes of plastic enters the oceans every year. That’s a truck load of rubbish every minute, which will take centuries to degrade and be impossible to fully clean up. To reduce plastic pollution, Greenpeace is working towards the elimination of single-use plastic packaging in the UK, and has been campaigning for the government to introduce a UK-wide deposit return scheme for all drinks containers.
Last year you returned 30,000 plastic bottles and cups and hundreds of you signed the Greenpeace petition, now signed by around 337,000 members of the public who back a deposit return scheme. The petition was handed as a ‘message in a bottle’ to environment secretary Michael Gove in advance of his announcement that the government will roll out a deposit return scheme after a consultation – Result!
Once again, Greenpeace will be running the Deposit Return Scheme (DRS) for cups and bottles at Community. They are looking for some keen, engaged and enthusiastic volunteers to join them. If you are interested please click here for more information and to access the application form.
Security measures are in place, which include metal detectors and sniffer dogs, at all entry gates. Large bags are not allowed to be taken into the festival. There is no cloakroom.
Small bags are allowed into the festival with the dimensions W21cm x H30cm x D8cm. We appreciate your cooperation and patience when entering the festival.
Visit our Personal Safety page for more information about security at the festival.
Please see our event terms and conditions here.
The best way to stay in the know of everything Community 2018 related is to download the app.
Here you’ll receive notifications with all the information you’ll ever need to have the best Community experience of your life.