Chelmsford Science Festival returns for a dynamic celebration of ideas, creativity and discovery.
This year's Festival explores the theme Future Worlds: Earth, Space, You. It features exciting events across science, technology, engineering, health, the environment and the arts.
The 2026 Chelmsford Science Festival is bringing even more events to the city. Bookings are now open for selected events including our paid ticketed headliners. These help expand free science experiences across Chelmsford. They enable us to bring nationally recognised speakers to the city at affordable prices, with 10% of tickets reserved for those facing financial, social or access barriers through trusted community partners. Any surplus is reinvested into the Festival and its activities.
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The full programme will be released later this month. Look out for even more exciting events and activities.
Join us in making the Chelmsford Science Festival an unforgettable experience! #ChelmSciFest
Explore STEM careers and subject choices as part of Chelmsford Science Festival. Bring your Year 12 students to campus for hands-on activities and workshops.
Introduce your Year 10 students to STEM careers and subject choices as part of Chelmsford Science Festival. Join us for hands-on activities and workshops.
Join award-winning science presenter and author Dallas Campbell for a journey through humanity's enduring fascination with space.
Bring your Year 9 students to ARU in Writtle for hands-on activities and workshops. Explore STEM careers and subject choices as part of Chelmsford Science Festival.
What does your voice reveal? Discover how tone, emotion and delivery shape trust, connection, learning and human behaviour.
Enjoy an SEN-friendly hour of science-related activities. This quieter, more relaxed session takes place before our main Family Science Day on Saturday 24 October.
Our popular Family Day is back! Join us on Saturday 24 October for a day filled with awesome experiments, mind-boggling discoveries, and endless family fun.
Learn about space and our relationship with it through fact-packed raps! Join science performer and educator Jon Chase for a fun-filled family workshop.
Join us as naturalist and TV presenter Chris Packham presents the inaugural Shaping Sustainable Futures annual lecture.
Enjoy an SEN-friendly hour of science-related activities. This quieter, more relaxed session takes place before our main Family Science Day on Sunday 25 October.
Our popular Family Day is back! Join us on Sunday 25 October for a day filled with awesome experiments, mind-boggling discoveries, and endless family fun.
Can science explain Harry Potter magic? Explore invisibility cloaks, levitation, potions and more with science communicator Jon Chase.
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