Check out our guide to activities and events for this Halloween season in and around Swindon.
To mark our excitement for a truly ‘Spooky’ time in Swindon this year, we’ve put together a guide to the best Halloween events in and around town, setting you up with a curious and possibly terrifyingly list of spooky things to do.
Halloween Party at Princess Lodge Care Centre:
Join us for a FREE spooktacular Halloween Party at Princess Lodge Care Centre – it’s going to be a fang-tastic night of fun and frights!
Spooktacular Halloween Bash at Princess Lodge Care Home!
Date: Thursday, 31st October
Time: 3:00 PM onwards
Location: Princess Lodge Care Home
Get ready for a frightfully fun afternoon as Princess Lodge opens its doors to the local community for a Halloween celebration like no other!
What’s Brewing:
- Live Music to get your bones rattling
- Party Games with ghoulishly good prizes
- Seasonal Treats and refreshments
- Costumes Welcome! (But not required)
Whether you’re a resident, a family member, or a neighbour from down the road, we’d love for you to join us in making this Halloween a heartwarming and hair-raising affair.
Let’s celebrate together with laughter, music, and a touch of spooky magic!
For more details or to RSVP, contact the Princess Lodge team or email: laura.nightingale@mmcg.co.uk
Wiltshire Treehouse – Halloween Hunt (Old Town Gardens):
Spooky fun for the kids at Old Town Gardens!… Why not join Wiltshire Treehouse at their family friendly Halloween Hunt on 1st November from 2pm-4pm!
Meeting at the band stand at The Old Town Gardens.
Book Tickets: Click HERE.
Family Halloween Party at The Kings Head Hotel – Cirencester:
Get ready for a spooktacular evening at the Kids Halloween Party on Friday, 31st October at the Kings Head Hotel!
We’re transforming the Vaulted Cellar into a halloween haunt for the kids with activities & treats galore!
Dress up in your best costume and come along for a night packed with fun, including the Monster Mash Dance Party, an Apple Bobbing Challenge, a Costume Contest with awesome prizes, spooky games, and plenty of surprising treats.
Enjoy delicious snacks and magical mocktails all night long while making unforgettable Halloween memories.
Best of all, entry is FREE! So bring your friends and family and join us, if you dare, for a night full of giggles, games, and ghostly fun!
Click HERE for more details.
Halloween at The Ridge – Greenbridge:
Join us this Halloween for our Kids Halloween Extravaganza, a spooky afternoon you don’t want to miss.
As well as some delicious food there will be a Disco, Games & Prizes, arts & crafts, Spooky Characters and of course fancy dress!
*everyone attending must have a ticket – Click HERE.
Date: 31st October.
Halloween at The Ridge – Shaw:
Join us this Halloween for our Kids Halloween Extravaganza, a spooky afternoon you don’t want to miss.
As well as some delicious food there will be a Disco, Games & Prizes, arts & crafts, Spooky Characters and of course fancy dress!
*everyone attending must have a ticket – Click HERE.
Date: 1st November.
Halloween At The Riverside – Lechlade:
Check out this spooky Halloween event for the kids…
Three children are hunting for the perfect pumpkin to take trick or treating. But first, they’ve got to get through the sticky spiders webs, the flapping bats, and then worst of all enter a spooky HAUNTED HOUSE! Will they find a great big pumpkin there… Or the biggest surprise of the night?
Haunted house, pumpkins, sweets and music for your little ones! Open for babies upto 6years.
You will need to book your places from the beginning of October!
Date: Thursday 30th October – Time: 4pm-6pm.
Click HERE for more details.
Pumpkin Carving at Roves Farm:
Open 23rd October – 31st October
Join in the Halloween fun on a family day out at Roves Farm near Swindon this October half term. Put on your most fiendish fancy dress costumes to add to the excitement and see whether you win a prize.
Young wizards or witches in the family? Enrol them in Witches & Wizards School and learn all about potion mixing, spell casting, wand making and broomstick flying from the Professors.
Visit the Pumpkin Patch to select your own pumpkin from the hundreds on display in the barn. Then carve a design and take your masterpiece home with you.
For more details, click HERE.
Raver Tots at Swindon MECA:
THE MOST SPOOKTACULAR INDOOR FAMILY DANCE PARTY PLAYING THE BEST IN HOUSE, GARAGE & DRUM AND BASS IS COMING BACK TO SWINDON!
Featuring a huge effects show throughout the event with dancers, performers, cold pyro, bubbles, festival sized confetti blasts, multi coloured lasers and lighting, parachute games, giant balloons, licensed bar and face painting!
This event sells out in advance so best to book early to avoid disappointment.
• Babies under 18 months are free of charge and do not require a ticket. All other children require a kids ticket.
• Strictly no adults admitted without a child (maximum of 3 adults to 1 child).
Venue: MECA, Regent Circus, Swindon, SN1 1PR
Click HERE for more details and to book tickets.
Ride the Ghost Train at Coate Water:
Are you feeling brave? The why not take a spooky ride on the Coate Water Ghost Train!
Our Halloween event is here for 2025! Book the date into your calendar. This year profits go to Prospect Hospice and Wiltshire Search and Rescue.
Click HERE for full details.
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