Partridges offer a wide range of goods that are useful for different events throughout the year. Below you will find a list of events that might give you some ideas for your own celebrations. Just remember that you will find a lot of our produce very useful if you are throwing your own party.

January 2010

New Year's Day ParadeNew Year’s Day (1) – New Year’s Day Parade starts at 12 noon from Big Ben to Piccadilly Circus.

Twelfth Night (6) – remember to take your Christmas trimmings down.

Burn’s Night (25) – celebrating the birthday of the Scottish Poet Robbie Burns.
February 2010

Chinese New Year (14) – 2010 is the year of the Tiger. 

Valentines Day (14) – don't forget the chocolates and champagne.

Shrove Tuesday Shrove Tuesday (16) – get flipping those pancakes.

March 2010

St David’s Day (1) – Patron Saint of Wales.

St Patrick’s Day (17) – Patron Saint of Ireland.

Spring equinox (20) – when the daylight hours start to get longer than the nights.

Mother's Day (14)

British Summer time begins (28) – time to put the clocks forward.

April 2010

April Fool’s Day (1) – the day when it is acceptable to play practical jokes on family, friends and colleagues.

EasterEaster weekend (2-5)

Queen Elizabeth’s birthday (21)

St George's Day (23) – celebration of the Patron Saint of England.

London Marathon (25) – this year the London Marathon will be sponsored by Virgin.

May 2010

May Day (1) Traditional English May Day celebrations include Morris dancing, crowning a May Queen and dancing around a Maypole.

May Bank Holiday (3)

Chelsea Flower ShowChelsea Flower Show (25-29) – Your chance to indulge in some of Partridges finest foods. Why not make yourselves a picnic and take a break from looking at all the inspiring gardens and flower displays. Treat yourselves to some cheese, meats or salmon from the deli and wash it all down some of our excellent range of fine wines.

Spring Bank Holiday (31)

June 2010

Taste of LondonTaste of London Festival – in Regent’s Park. Get the chance to sample and shop for gourmet food and drink, and see a range of entertaining and informative features.

Trooping of the Colour (12) The Queen's official birthday celebrations.

Royal Ascot (15-19) Ascot Racecourse was founded by Queen Anne in 1711. Each day begins with the Royal Procession - the arrival of The Queen and the Royal party in horse-drawn landaus. The Royal Procession dates back to the 1820s and the reign of King George IV.

Father's Day (20) (3rd Sunday of June)

Summer Solstice (21) – longest day and shortest night.

Wimbledon (21 June-4 July) One of the four great world tennis championships and the only one which is played on grass.

July 2010

Independence Day (4)

Hampton Court Flower Show (7-12)

BBC promsBBC Proms (17) – the world's largest classical music festival begins.

St Swithin’s Day (15) – if it rains today then it is said it will rain for 40 days and 40 nights.

Opening of the State Rooms at Buckingham Palace (31) – these are open to the public until the end of September.

August 2010

Notting Hill Carnival (29) – Around a million people take to the streets of Notting Hill in West London for the Notting Hill Carnival - Europe's biggest carnival.
A weekend full of festivities

August Bank Holiday (31)

September 2010

Last Night of the Proms (11) – if you are not lucky enough to get tickets for the Albert Hall then go to the Proms in the Park, Hyde Park instead.

Autumn equinox (23) – when the daylight hours start to get shorter than the night.

October 2010

National Baking week  – Starts on the 19 and ends on the 25 of October. This is a great reason to grab your apron and head for the kitchen

Apple Day (21) – a celebration of the humble apple, to make people aware of the variety of apples we are in danger of losing.

British Summer Time ends (31) – time to put the clock back by one hour.

Halloween (31) – Pay a visit to the store and pick up all the goodies you need to celebrate from pumpkins to sweets and chocolates for your trick or treaters


November 2009

London to Brighton Car Rally (31 October-1 November) – The annual event takes place to commemorate the raising of the speed limit for `light locomotives' from 4 mph to 14 mph in 1896 and abolished the requirement for these vehicles to be preceded by a man on foot.

Bonfire Night (5) Remenber, remenber the fifth of November, Gunpowder. treason and plot. We see no reason why Gunpowder treason should ever be forgot.

ice skatingLondon’s Christmas Ice Rinks open
Natural History Museum – dates to be confirmed.
Somerset House– dates to be confirmed.
Tower of London– dates to be confirmed.
Kew Gardens– dates to be confirmed.

Lord Mayor’s Show (13) – The first Lord Mayor's Show was held in 1215 and since its conception only major events such as the Black Death - and in 1852, the funeral of the Duke of Wellington - have stopped the show. 

Remembrance Sunday (9) – the closest Sunday to Armistice Day, which is the anniversary of when hostilities in the First World War ended at 11 a.m  on 11 November in 1918.

Thanksgiving (25) – American festival of thanksgiving.
Look uot for information about Thanksgiving product in store in the home page

St Andrew’s Day (30) – Patron Saint of Scotland.

December 2008

Trafalgar Square Christmas Tree – The switching on of the lights on the tree, a present from the people of Oslo in Norway.

winter solcticeWinter Solstice (21) – it is on the shortest day or longest night of the year, marking the astronomical beginning of winter.

Christmas Eve (24)Christmas Eve is not a public holiday in the UK. Public transport services may finish earlier than usual.

Christmas Day (25) Christian celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ. Observed by prayers, exchanging of gifts, and family parties.

Boxing Day (26)

New Year’s Eve (31) At midnight everybody joins hands and sings Auld Lang Syne.