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Hope Cove Weekend
August Bank Holiday 2026

Just in case you were wondering, Hope Cove Weekend 2026 begins in …..

Friday eve 28th, Saturday 29th, Sunday 30th, Monday 31st August 2026

Welcome

HCW continues to look for donations on their Go Fund Me page to help offset the event costs.
All profits from the weekend go to support our local charities.

Welcome to the Hope Cove Weekend

We are pleased to welcome everyone to the Hope Cove Weekend over the August Bank Holiday.

The weekend is packed with fun activities for everyone.

Our much loved beach activities include:
. Jogger's race . Beach yoga
. Sea fishing . Sandcastle Competitions
. Paddle boarding races
. Kayak races . Land and Sea Race
. Family Sports
. Hope Cove Hoe down
. Fancy Dress . Dog Fancy Dress
. Sailing race . Tug of War
. Open water swim . Pilates
. Beach Flags

Stalls
. A range of F+B + craft stalls

Entertainment:
Music . Laser show. . Hoe down
Music by:
. Filthy Gorgeous . Tilly Rigby . Milo Griffiths
. Open Mic with Benny Carr . General Confusion

With most of the activities and entertainment FREE we encourage donations with all proceeds going to a range of local charities.

'Official Programme'

The Hope Cove Store

Hope Cove Weekend Information Desk

Malborough Post office

Hope + Anchor Pub

The Cove

Harbourmaster's Hut

The Cottage Hotel

Latest news

Hope Cove Weekend 2026

This year's Hope Cove Weekend will take place on Friday 28th to Monday 31st August! Put it in your diary now!!
The HCW committee is busy planning for this summer's event! After last year's spectacularly successful event we are pleased to announce funds raised have been distributed to Hope Cove Life Boat, the Harbour Wall fund, Hope and Galmpton Village Hall, The History Group and Malborough school PTA.
The event itself costs around £17,000 to run. This includes paying for lots of things 'behind the scenes', such as insurance, water safety, first aid, and road closure measures. Funds are raised through advertising, stall holders, sponsorship from businesses and public donations.

Litter pick

Our charities

We are pleased to announce that the funds raised at Hope Cove Weekend 2025 have been allocated to the following:

Local charities

Hope cove Life Boat
The Harbour Wall
Galmpton Village Hall
The HC History Group

Children’s organisations

Malborough School PTA

A big thank you to all our advertisers and event sponsors

Di + Ken Edwards

Mike Best

Luckock Family

R+D Long Family

James Rossiter

Marcus Longbottom

Activities running over the whole weekend

Raffle Draw

All weekend: enquiry at the Information Point

Our ever popular Raffle Draw tickets will be on sale over the weekend.

Priced at £1 per ticket - £5 per book.

Many thanks to all our Raffle Draw sponsors for their generosity

Raffle prizes

Treasure Hunt

All weekend: enquiry at the Information Point

Kindly sponsored by:

Time

Location

Start from 9:00am - Saturday

Information Point

Finish at 11:30am - Monday

Return to the Information Point

Sponsored by:

Fun for all with the HCW Treasure Hunt

Collect the Treasure Hunt from the Information Point after 8:45am and return by 11:30am

Rock Pooling

All weekend: enquiry at the Information Point

Kindly sponsored by:

Time

Location

From 9:00am

All weekend

Beaches

Sponsored by:

Rock-pooling this year won't be a competition to collect as many sea-creatures as you can, but instead an exploration to see if you can find certain species without removing them from their natural habitat.
Forms for the Rockpooling can be found in the official programme.
Identification sheets are available from the Information Point in Outer Hope Square.
Every participant will be given a sea-life keyring on return of their sheet.

Activities running over the whole weekend in Inner Hope

OptiShoot

Laser shooting

Time

Location

Saturday, Sunday + Monday

Inner Hope

1:00pm - 3:00pm

Inner Hope

Optishoot welcome you to try laser shooting.

Learn how to shoot and try out a pistol set-up similar to the one used by our Olympic Gold Medalist Kate French.

Our Ecoaims pistols have low power Class 1 eye safe lasers.

Cost:
£1 to have 2 goes at the competition to score 5 hits in the fastest time.
Prizes for Under 16s and Over 16s each day