Join us for a Christmas Family Ceilidh!

December 13th 2025
Cutteslowe Pavilion
10:30 - 12:00
Adults: £6
Children: £4
Under 2s: free

Come along, bring your friends and family, soak in the music and leap about in
festive style.
In the cafe, the lovely Sophie and Graham will be serving mince pies and mulled cider alongside the usual biscuits, squash and teas and coffees.

Tickets here

We also have a payment link (below) if you want to avoid the booking fee.
Please leave a note specifying what tickets you have paid for.

https://pay.sumup.com/b2c/QO4O79RN

This may be our last ceilidh at Cutteslowe Park for a while, so let’s make it a fantastic fun-filled knees-up.

If you would like to help keep our ceilidhs going more regularly, please read on. One lovely soul has volunteered to help us on the door, thank you so much. We would love to receive more offers!

Help Us Keep Our Lovely Family Ceilidhs Going :)

After a summer break, we (Rosa and Martha) have been reviewing our resources and capacity for running Family Ceilidh events into the future.

We love our family ceilidhs and would love to keep them going.

In order to do this, we need some help. We’ve come up with a poll to find out whether there is anyone within the community we have built up (you, our lovely families) who may be willing.

Which of these things could you help with?
- Being in charge of the Facebook page
- Publicising the event
- Creating a poster
- Being on the door to welcome people in the first 15 minutes of the dance

Let us know here

This poll is initially to gauge interest and capacity. But to help you with your response, below are a few more details about what each of these activities would involve.

Being in charge of the Facebook page - adding new events to the page (we provide the details), posting in the lead up to the event to garner interest, responding to questions. Monitoring only needed around events, around 3 per year.

Publicising the event - this could be anything from sharing physical or digital posters in your local networks, to helping us to advertise the event on Daily Info and other advertising platforms. Whatever you think you could help with, please let us know!

Creating a poster - Updating our poster template with new event details, converting to shareable files, printing as needed.

Being on the door - no more than this! Just turn up 10 mins early and then you are free to dance after the first 15 mins.

What would be in it for you?
- Join a small, family-oriented team, only mobilising as needed for each of our ceilidh events (around 3 a year)
- Contributing to making our family ceilidhs as friendly, inclusive and accessible as possible
- Some free tickets for your family or friends to join

If you think you can help us out with any of this, please fill in this form. We will be in touch to discuss further. Or, you are very welcome to get in touch directly by emailing This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Whatever amount of time you would like to offer, we would love to hear from you!

Best Wishes from Martha and Rosa

We had a great time at the Christmas Ceilidh! Thanks so much to Sophie and Graham in the cafe for making the delicious rocky roads and mulled cider.

The band played with gusto and is now called The Mince Pipers, but only till February 11th. If you come along you will have the chance to re-name them :)

Come to our next Family Ceilidh!

Sunday 11th February 
2.00 - 3.30
Cuttelowe Park Pavilion

Adults: £6
Children: £4
Under 2s: free

Tickets here

If you would like to avoid the transaction fees by paying via bank transfer, please email us within plenty of time of the event. 
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Follow us on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/familyceilidhoxford

Our dances attract all ages. The atmosphere is one of inclusion and enjoyment, no experience is necessary; join in or sit out whenever you like.
Our lovely caller Jane will give you the moves and our fantastic live folk band provides the energy and drive.

Thank you to all those who came and shared in a lovely dance at St. Barnabas Church for Oxford Folk Festival. A marvelous time was had by all and the band was renamed The Flapjacks.

We're really excited to be back at the castle this May! Hoping you will come and join us there. Read below from the castle: they're giving a £4 discount per person on a castle tour with a ceilidh ticket :)

Held outside in the Castleyard, the Ceilidh will take place in front of the historic backdrop of Oxford Castle & Prison, with a live band and a caller who will guide you through all the dances. Brought to you by Family Ceilidh Oxford this is a fun and friendly event for the whole family to enjoy! Wear some clothes suitable for an outdoors event, and some shoes comfortable to dance in, and come along for a dance!

May 18th 2024
2.00 - 3.30

Ticket prices £6/£4 (under 2s and carers free)

Information and tickets: https://www.oxfordcastleandprison.co.uk/events/event/ceilidh-in-the-castleyard/

Join us for a Family Ceilidh on Father's Day

Dance with your Daddy-O (not compulsary)

Our next Ceilidh is on the 15th of June, which coincides with Father's Day but really any excuse for a knees-up :)

We're back in the lovely Cutteslowe Park and hoping you can come and join us in whatever shape your family group comes. The dads, of course will get an honorable mention.

At our last event the band were renamed "The Jolly Potatoes" 😂

Join us in June for your chance to name the band.
 

June 15th 2025
Cutteslowe Park Pavilion (bowls pavilion) OX2 8ES
2:00 - 3:30
Adults: £6
Children: £4
Under 2's: free

Buy Tickets here

We also have a payment link (below) if you want to avoid the booking fee. Please leave a note specifying what tickets you have paid for. https://pay.sumup.com/b2c/QO4O79RN

- A plea for help in return for free entry -

Family Ceilidh Oxford is run by one family. Our lovely musicians support us by bringing their energy and enthusiasm while not requiring a big fee. They take home their split of whatever we make from ticket sales and the cafe, after the hall hire. Thanks to them, we can keep the price affordable. There is no profit made.

I used to be on the door welcoming and selling tickets with varying degrees of competency. My other half, Jim used to run the cafe. Now the brilliant Sophie and Graham run the cafe and me and Jim have both been sucked into the band. If you would like to be the person on the door for in return free entrance for you and your family, please send me an email! It would require you to be there 10 minutes before the start and then to stay on the door during the first 15 minutes of the event. After that, you're free of duties :) 

Also - Martha our caller and I set up Family Ceilidh Oxford when my children were small. They are now teenagers and the dances don't happen as regularly now, just due to life being full of other things. Are you a parent/grandparent of small ones who could help with the organising, thus ensuring they happen more often? Please get in touch if you think you could help and become part of the FCO family.

Thanks,

Rosa

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