Exeter Custom House - ECQT

20/06/2026

🌊⚓ TODAY’S THE DAY! ⚓🌊

Come down to the Sustainable Seas Festival at East Quay, Exeter Canal Basin, from 11am–5pm today (Saturday 20 June) for a fantastic FREE day of maritime heritage, conservation, live entertainment and family fun! 🐟🚤🌱

✨ Highlights include:
⚓ Historic vessels open to visit
🎨 Traditional maritime crafts
🎶 Live music and song
🚣 ‘Get Afloat’ activities
🎥 Talks, lectures and films
🛍️ Farmers’ Market in the Piazza (9am - 1pm)

📅 Today’s Timetable

🕚 11am – Festival opens with stalls and activities
🚣 11am–5pm – Have-a-go sessions (Haven Banks)
🎶 11am–11.30am – Tess & the D’Urbervilles (East Quay entrance)
🛠️ 12pm–1pm – Wooden Boatbuilding into the Future panel (Co-Create Studios)
♻️ 2pm–2.30pm – Odyssey: A Journey into Recycling Ocean Plastics (Co-Create Studios)

Bring the family, meet local organisations, discover ways to protect our seas and waterways, and enjoy a great day by the water. 🌍💙

📍 East Quay, Exeter Canal Basin
🎟️ Free entry
🕚 11am–5pm

See you there! 🌊⚓🐬

Banks Outdoor Education Centre Britannia Sailing Trust Exeter Quayside Farmers' Market Tess & the d'Urbervilles Visit Exeter

19/06/2026

🌊 Join us tomorrow at the Sustainable Seas Festival on Exeter Quay!

Come and find us amongst a fantastic line up of environmental organisations, inspiring talks, films, historic boats, and traditional maritime crafts. It’s set to be a brilliant day celebrating our connection with the sea, rivers, and local environment.

Don’t forget to stop by the Quayside Farmers’ Market, running from 9am–1pm, on your way up to the festival.

We’ll hopefully have some riverflies fresh from a survey on the River Exe for you to help us identify and sort through, giving you a hands on insight into how we monitor river health and biodiversity.

📍 Exeter Quay
⏰ 11am–5pm

Come and say hello, find out more about restoring the Alphin brook, Himalayan balsam and Riverfly projects, and discover how you can get involved.

See you there!

Britannia Sailing Trust Exeter Quayside Farmers' Market Exeter Quay Exeter Custom House - ECQT Tess & the d'Urbervilles Leigh Day The Seal Project Clean Ocean Sailing Exe Tidelines Devon Wildlife Trust Exeter City Council Zoe Hughes Odyssey Innovation Ltd

19/06/2026

🌞🛍️ Looking for something to do this weekend? Head down to Exeter Quayside tomorrow (Saturday 20 June) for a fantastic day celebrating local food, drink, crafts and maritime heritage! ⚓🌊

Start the day at the Exeter Quayside Farmers' Market on Piazza Terracina from 9am, bringing together some of the region's finest food, drink and artisan producers. 🍞🧀🍯🍰

✨ This month's market welcomes three exciting new traders:
🍫 Calineo Artisan Chocolatier
🍸 Exeter Gin
🥬 Teign Greens

📍 Piazza Terracina, Exeter Quayside
🗓 Saturday 20 June
⏰ 9am–1pm

Why not make a day of it? 🌊 The Sustainable Seas Festival will also be taking place at East Quay (next to Haven Banks) from 11am–5pm, with:

⚓ Traditional maritime crafts
🚢 Historic vessels open to explore
🎤 Talks, lectures and films
🎶 Live music and sea shanties
🚣 Have-a-go activities on the water
🛍️ Farmers' Market and family-friendly fun

A perfect day out by the water for all ages! 💙☀️

18/06/2026

⏳🌊 The countdown is on! ⚓🐬

This weekend, the Sustainable Seas Festival comes to East Quay (near Haven Banks). Join us for a fantastic FREE day celebrating our seas, waterways, maritime heritage and the people working to protect them. 💙🌍

🗓 Saturday 20 June
🕚 11am–5pm
📍 East Quay, Exeter Canal Basin
🎟️ Free entry

✨ What's on?

⚓ Historic vessels open to explore
🎨 Traditional maritime crafts
🎶 Live music and performances
🚣 ‘Get Afloat’ activities
🎥 Talks, lectures and films
🛍️ Exeter Quayside Farmers Market (9am–1pm)

📅 Festival highlights

🕚 11am – Festival opens
🚣 11am–5pm – Have-a-go sessions (Haven Banks)
🎶 11am–11.30am – Tess & the D’Urbervilles
🛠️ 12pm–1pm – Wooden Boatbuilding into the Future
♻️ 2pm–2.30pm – Odyssey: A Journey into Recycling Ocean Plastics

Whether you're passionate about conservation, fascinated by maritime history, or simply looking for a great family day out by the water, there's something for everyone. 🌊⚓☀️

Who's joining us this weekend?

Banks Outdoor Education Centre
Mindfully Wild CIC Britannia Sailing Trust
Exeter Quayside Farmers' Market Heritage Harbours Group UK
Tess & the d'Urbervilles Visit Exeter

17/06/2026

This will be an excellent panel discussion as part of the Festival. Taking place at 12pm on Saturday, it's FREE to attend.

We’ve been working behind the scenes with the fantastic team at Women in Boatbuilding (WiBB) and the Britannia Sailing Trust to bring you a special panel discussion exploring the challenges and opportunities facing the traditional boatbuilding industry today.

Hosted by Obioma Oji from WiBB, the discussion will feature women involved in the restoration of Britannia, the last functional example of an East Coast Smack, originally built in 1915 and currently being lovingly restored on Exeter Quay.

The panel will explore three key themes:

🌳 From Forest to Futtock: Restoring the ‘Trees to Sea’ Link
How can we reconnect forestry and boatbuilding? Discover how projects such as the Britannia Wood Project are helping secure sustainably sourced timber for the future of wooden vessel construction.

🔨 The Skill Gap: From the Classroom to the Boatyard
What happens after training? We’ll discuss the challenges of moving from education into employment, retaining skilled craftspeople, and ensuring traditional shipwright skills continue to thrive.

⚓️ Women at the Helm: Modernising Traditional Trades
A closer look at the WiBB mission, exploring the barriers women face in the industry—from PPE and workplace culture to creating more inclusive and accessible pathways into maritime trades.

📍 Location: Co-create, Exeter
📅 Date: 20th June
⏰ Time: 12pm

Whether you’re interested in maritime heritage, traditional crafts, sustainability, skills development, or supporting women in industry, we’d love to see you there.

Britannia Sailing Trust Exeter Quayside Farmers' Market Exeter Quay Exeter Custom House - ECQTTess & the d'Urbervilles Visit Exeter

16/06/2026

Do check this opportunity out!

Art Work Exeter are inviting people from the Exeter community to take part in A Cut Up Cabaret, an event taking place at Exeter Custom House on the evening of Saturday 27th June as part of The Considerate Society.

Drawing inspiration from Zurich Dada’s Cabaret Voltaire and Kraków’s Zielony Balonik (Green Balloon), it will be an experimental cabaret salon event that considers the relationship between international shippage and linguistic slippage. Expect music, moments of experimental performance, lots of conversation and the chance to join in yourself.

We are inviting people to plunder, break apart, reconfigure and perform texts relating to the Custom House and Exeter’s historic trade to make your own short performance actions to share as part of the event.

We are looking for those who would like to devise and perform short actions, poetry, songs, puppetry – anything related to the theme, up to 5 minutes long.

The workshop will run in two sessions 10.30am-1pm and 2pm-4.30pm. We would love people to stay for the whole day, but if you can only come for half of the day, please come in the morning.

We will provide tea, coffee and biscuits. If you are staying for the whole day please bring lunch with you.

Please book on via our website/ linktree

Would you like to take part but can’t attend the workshop? Please email us at [email protected] for further info.

We will also be holding an extra ‘rehearsal’ moment on the 27th June – the day of the event – for anyone that would like it.

Find out more about The Considerate Society and ways to get involved, on our website: https://artworkexeter.org.uk/the-considerate-society/

15/06/2026

🌞🎉 is in full swing, and there's a fantastic weekend of events lined up in Exeter!

Head down to the Quayside on Saturday for the 🌱 Exeter Quayside Farmers' Market and the 🌊 Sustainable Seas Festival, while on Sunday, cheer on the crews at the 🚣 Dragon Boat Festival as teams battle it out on the water in one of Exeter's most colourful and exciting annual events! And there's loads of other great events taking place, right across the city!

📅 Discover what's on and start planning your week:
https://tinyurl.com/3atkzc4x

🎨🎶📚🎭✨🌞🚣🌊

14/06/2026

🎨 Discover Custom Made here at Exeter Custom House this June.

Custom Made, a captivating exhibition by our Cultural Partners, Art Work Exeter , brings together three years of artistic exploration, collaboration and storytelling on Exeter Quayside.

Through a rich collection of video installations, sculpture, sound works, documentary photography and unique artefacts, visitors are invited to explore the people, places and creative processes that have shaped this remarkable residency project.

🖼️ You'll also find a selection of prints, booklets and one-of-a-kind items available to purchase, offering a chance to take home a piece of the story.

📍 Exeter Custom House Gallery
📅 Until 28 June
⏰ Open daily, 10am–4.30pm
🎟 Free admission

Check out their full programme of Considerate Society events taking place this month:

https://exetercustomhouse.co.uk/event/art-work-exeter-custom-made/

13/06/2026

🎉🎂 The Exeter Quayside Farmers Market is turning ONE! 🎂🎉

Saturday 20 June marks the first anniversary of the Exeter Quayside Farmers' Market and what an incredible year it has been!

Led by Food Exeter, this flagship market has helped strengthen the local economy while showcasing the very best food, drink and artisan producers from across our region, all set against the stunning backdrop of Exeter's historic quayside.

✨ This month's market will feature a fantastic line-up of traders, including three exciting new additions:

🍫 Calineo Artisan Chocolatier
🍸 Exeter Gin
🥬 Teign Greens

📍 Piazza Terracina, Exeter Quayside
🗓 Saturday 20 June
⏰ 9am–1pm

Come along to meet the producers, discover something new, while enjoying the stunning setting of Exeter Quayside. 💚

And why not make a day of it? 🌊 The Sustainable Seas Festival will also be taking place at East Quay (near Haven Banks) from 11am–5pm, featuring:

⚓ Traditional maritime crafts
🚢 Historic vessels open to visit
🎤 Talks, lectures and films at the Haven Banks Centre
🎶 Live music and sea shanties throughout the day

A perfect day out on Exeter Quayside for all ages!

12/06/2026

🌊⚓ Dive into the Sustainable Seas Festival! ⚓🌊

Looking for a fun and free family day out? Head to East Quay, Exeter (next to Haven Banks Outdoor Education Centre) on Saturday 20 June for the Sustainable Seas Festival.

Whether you're fascinated by boats, the sea, wildlife or conservation, there's plenty to discover throughout the day. Expect hands-on activities, fascinating talks, historic vessels, live music and lots more!

🌟 Highlights include:

🚤 Traditional maritime crafts and demonstrations
⛵ Historic vessels open to explore
🎣 Free 'Get Afloat' opportunities and have-a-go sessions
🎬 Talks, films and discussions at Haven Banks Centre
🎶 Live music and sea shanties
🥕 Farmers' Market in the Piazza

📅 Timetable

🕚 11am – Festival opens with stalls and activities
🛶 11am–5pm – Have-a-go sessions (Haven Banks)
🎵 11am–11.30am – Tess & the D'Urbervilles (Entrance to East Quay)
⚒️ 12pm–1pm – Wooden Boatbuilding into the Future (Co-Create Studios)
♻️ 2pm–2.30pm – Odyssey: A Journey into Recycling Ocean Plastics (Co-Create Studios)

Best of all, it's completely FREE to attend!

Come along, learn something new, celebrate our maritime heritage and discover how we can all help protect our seas for future generations. 🌍💙