In the lead up to Remembrance Sunday, which this year focuses on the 80th anniversary of VE Day, this double bill of film, song and live performance using real life accounts has been specially created by award-winning writer and performer Helena Fox and actor-vocalist Natasha Jones, of Everwitch Theatre. It commemorates the 80th anniversaries of D-Day (2024) and VE Day (2025).

From D-Day to VE Day, this powerful one hour double bill of live performance (30 minutes) and short film (30 minutes) brings to life the verbatim accounts of two working class Yorkshire Normandy veterans, highlighting the lifelong impact of post-traumatic stress disorder and sleep trauma, not only on veterans of war but on their families.

“We’re in the water, wading to the shore, and we’re literally brushing against what looks like logs, and they’re just bodies rolling in the surf, people that we know, eighteen, nineteen, twenty-year-olds, they’re pople that we know!” 
Smudger from Bomb Happy: Smudger’s Story

“I had to try to very carefully wake him up, but very carefully you know. You see, he’d be shaking. And for a moment when he woke, he’d still be back there – in the war.” 
Gloria, Smudger’s wife from Bomb Happy: Smudger’s Story

“Bomb Happy is a slang phrase we use for being under fire for many days at a time. It does describe the condition you become.”
Smudger from Bomb Happy, Smudger’s Story

Book your place here: Events with Kemps Bookstore in Malton – Kemps General Store & Kemps Books

Malton Food Tour

“One Of Britain’s Top Gastronomic Tours”

Malton Food Tour allows you to taste your way around town meeting Malton’s passionate artisan producers on Yorkshire’s number one food tour.

This guided gastronomic walking tour gets you behind the scenes - tasting new creations, chatting to producers and seeing how their award winning products are made. Come hungry!

The tours take place on the second Saturday of the month from March to November, alongside the Malton Monthly Food Market.

Find out more about the tour or book your tickets here:

Malton Food Tour, Guided Gastronomic Tour around Malton, North Yorkshire

Christmas at Castle Howard with The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

13th November – 4th January (tickets go on sale soon)

A wicked and wonderful extravaganza awaits at Castle Howard for Christmas 2025. Gather your friends and family, and skip down the yellow brick road to experience the House dressed as scenes from Oz.

Working with the same creative team that brought you Alice's Christmas Wonderland and Christmas in Neverland, experience a festive take on L. Frank Baum's much-loved story, told in stately surroundings with theatrical installations, immersive soundscapes and projections. Delight in seeing the iconic characters and unique locations from the wonderful world of Oz, brought to life in technicolour splendour.

Complete your annual festive treat with delectable Afternoon Tea, a visit to Father Christmas, and festive shopping in the Christmas Shop, with more surprises to be announced soon.

Visit the Castle Howard website for more details regarding tickets and event information: https://www.castlehoward.co.uk/whats-on/christmas-at-castle-howard

Cooking the Books - Mrs Quinn’s Rise to Fame by Olivia Ford

Date: 13th November 2025

Time: 7pm - 9pm

Tickets: £30.00 - pre-booking is essential.

The Cook’s Place have teamed up with local Malton bookshop Kemps Bookstore to bring you a monthly book club with a difference.

Each month Jo Hardy from Kemps Bookstore suggests a book that has a foodie theme, you review it and Gilly Robinson, owner and head tutor here at The Cook’s Place will then create a two-course meal. Gilly will demonstrate how to make the dishes which you get to eat during the evening with a glass of something. Cooking the Books is a great way to bring your love of books and cooking together. A wonderful night out for a group of book lovers or even on your own. A friendly, welcoming atmosphere awaits.

Visit The Cooks Place website to find out more or to book tickets: Cooking the Books: Mrs Quinn’s Rise to Fame by Olivia Ford (13 Nov 2025) | The Cooks Place Malton

Copies of the book “The Book of Perilous Dishes by Doina Rusti” are available to buy from Kemps Bookstore.

Soy Wax Candle Making Workshop

We will start with warm drinks and cake, before settling down for a session of learning and crafting together. We anticipate the workshop will take around two hours but we do not like to rush, it's all meant to be enjoyable and relaxing :)

- Learn all about 100% soy wax container candle-making in our Malton workshop
- Create your own, unique fragrance blend using natural, essential oils
- Make your own signature fragranced, 100% soy wax container candle(s)
- While your candle(s) is/are setting, decorate a (pre-made) 30cl container candle in your own unique style
- After the workshop, you will have at least 2 x container candles to take home with you to enjoy or gift to your friends and family

Tickets can be bought in-store or online: £60pp

NEW for 2025

Spend a whole day crafting and enjoy a free delicious lunch with us in Malton. Create beautiful, unique candles and soaps to take home with you!

Other Session Dates: September 20th and October 2025

Join us for the day in our Malton, Navigation Wharf workshop for a glorious, relaxing crafting day. In the morning, create two large (300ml) or several smaller 100% soy wax, scented candles, then in the afternoon, we enjoy a session of palm oil free soap-making, making six bars of your own signature, cold process soap to take home. We will share a delicious lunch together and there will be time to wander around Malton's Market Place after lunch too, if you wish.

In our spacious premises in Navigation Wharf, Yorkersgate, next to the Talbot Hotel, Malton, we will be hosting up to ten participants for each of the morning and afternoon sessions. The programme for this special all-day event is as follows

10.30am start with Tea/coffee, cake, introductions and safety briefing 

• Candlemaking background, materials, fragrances and choice of containers

• Candlemaking demonstration

• Make-your own soy wax candles to take home

• Decorate a pre-made candle using a range of materials provided by us

12.45 - LUNCH and relaxation time

2.00pm tea, coffee and more cake (if you have room)

• Chemistry, history and practice of soap-making

• Materials selection, choice of fragrances 

• Soapmaking demonstration

• Make-your six bars of signature blended, all natural, palm oil free soaps to take home

• Next steps, cutting and curing your soaps

4.00 to 4.30pm leave for home with your candles and soaps.

Your palm oil free soaps are created from vegetable oils and waxes using the cold process soap-making method. No melt-and-pour synthetic soap bases here! Your 100% soy wax candles are made from 100% high quality soy wax; no paraffin or smoky waxes!. Your items will be unique to you, personalised with your own dried flowers, fruit, exfoliants and essential oil fragrances.

For more information or to book your place please visit the Cosy Cottage website here .

The soap and candle making sessions can be booked as individual workshops too:

Soap Making: https://www.cosycottagesoap.co.uk/collections/malton-store-events/products/face-to-face-soap-making-workshops-in-malton

Candle Making: https://www.cosycottagesoap.co.uk/collections/malton-store-events/products/christmas-candlemaking-workshop

Cosy Cottage Soap Making Workshop

Tea/coffee and introductions

- The history of soap making
- The chemistry of soap-making
- Fragrances, botanicals and essential oils
- Soap Making demonstration
- Choose your own fragrances, flowers, exfoliants
- Make your own soap
- Next steps - after 24 hours (cutting the soaps) and 2 weeks (post curing)

- Goodbyes and loading soap for transporting home

Tickets can be bought in-store or online: £60pp

Malton St Clement's Festival

Keep an eye on the Malton St Clement’s Festival social media channels for further updates.

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/stclementsmalton

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/maltonstclementsfestival/

Following the success of the Malton St Clement’s Festival in both 2023 and 2024, the third instalment of the festival will return to Malton on Saturday 22nd November 2025. The free to enter, one day festival will be a celebration of winter, harvest, music and traditional blacksmithing.

Wrap up warm and come and join us for a jam-packed family day of fun activities in Malton’s picturesque Market Place.

More details to be announced soon!

Activities will include:

• Crafting and treat making;

• Children’s activities

• Blacksmithing demonstrations;

• Art and sculptures;

• Delicious, warming food and drink;

• Music from bands, choirs, buskers and more!

• And of course, the Son et Lumiere and twilight lantern procession in the Market Place.

• Some retailers around Malton will be open for a spot of late night shopping too.

Tree Sponsorship:

Businesses in the town are invited to sponsor a tree that will be included in the avenue of illuminated trees outside St Michael’s Church and around the centre of Malton’s Market Place.

About the Malton St Clement’s Event:

The event is organised and run by the Malton St Clement’s Steering Group which is made up of several representatives of businesses and organisations in Malton.

For enquiries about the event, how to get involved or how to sponsor a tree, please email: maltonstclements@gmail.com