Challenge Stage at Arley Hall

There are laughs throughout the day with our Men (or Women) v Food challenges on the Challenge Stage. Any adult over 18 can take part as long as you sign the disclaimer and are up for a laugh!

The challenges start off gentle and get harder throughout the day. The first challenge is at 11:30 with Cracker Challenge - NEW for 2024, extensivly tested by the GBFF team with hilarious results. At 12:30, as we head to lunchtime, the huge sausages are cooked and our Men v Meat competition kicks off. Want to see a grown man cry? Then the Challenge Stage is the place to be for our Chilli Challenge at 3pm. It's hard to watch and harder for our contestants to stomach - but whatever happens it’s great entertainment. We'll take our contestants from a Jalapeno all the way to the World’s Hottest Chillis - if they can handle it! Only one will walk away as the victor!!

We wrap up the fun with Pairs v Treat which is a dessert-based challenge where Pairs of competitors compete against other pairs to be first to finish platefuls of delicious goodies

It's only a fiver to enter each of the challenges and every penny will go to Charity. Sign up at the Challenge Stage on the day – be quick though as there is only a limited number of spaces for each event. As well as prestige, the winner of each challenge will win one of our coveted T-Shirts!

In between all that, on the Challenge Stage at 1:30 we taste and judge the cakes entered for our Cake Off. This is free to enter - bake a cake for the cake off and get into the festival for free! Find out more and enter