About The City Brief Preston
Your Personal Newsletter For All Local Events in Preston
Preston's event scene changes quickly, and The City Brief aims to keep you informed about what's happening across the city. Whether you're in Preston City Centre for market day, exploring the bars and restaurants in Harris Quarter, or walking along the River Ribble, there's usually something worth knowing about. We cover a range of local activity: from the annual Preston Summer Festival and Winter Festivities that mark the calendar, to weekly experiences like Owl and Hawk Experience Days at Turbary Woods. We track what’s on at Preston’s cultural venues, monitor market openings and closures, and keep an eye on the community events that give the city its character. Preston has a strong sense of civic pride and heritage, from the historic Preston Guild, which returns every twenty years, to daily life in neighbourhoods like Preston North End and Fulwood. Our role is to help residents and visitors stay informed about local events without needing to search multiple websites or social media feeds. We believe people deserve a straightforward, reliable way to discover what’s on in their city. Each week, we highlight events, reopenings, closures, and changes that matter to people who live, work, and visit here. We focus on what's genuinely local and useful: the markets, festivals, family activities, cultural programmes, and gatherings that give Preston its character. The City Brief isn’t about exaggeration. It’s about ensuring you don’t miss anything and know what to expect from your neighbourhood and the wider city. Preston’s events deserve clear, honest coverage, and that's what we provide.
What we Cover
Each week The City Brief highlights events happening across Preston – live music, theatre, food, family activities, markets and more.
Have a look at what's happening this week and this coming weekend.
About The City Brief
The City Brief is a global network of local newsletters. We succeed in sending the best of local information to local people. To learn more, visit our main website.
About the editor
The City Brief Preston is edited by Dean Withey, founder of The City Brief. A former RAF pilot turned founder and investor, Dean has built and sold two technology companies, including ubisend, a conversational AI platform used by the NHS and BAE Systems, and has shipped more than thirty enterprise AI systems over twenty years in tech. He is based in Norwich, England.
Why this site exists, in Dean's words: "In an AI-powered world, you can no longer trust what you see and hear online. The future is local: trusting only what you can see for yourself. The City Brief is the trusted brief for what's happening in your city."
Listings are gathered from venue websites, official box offices and event platforms, then checked and curated before publishing. AI tools assist with drafting; every published page follows our editorial policy.
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