📅 October 2026 Events in Sunderland

Sat 10 Oct

The New Monkey Vs RTTG Hells Party

📍 Elysium

Sat 17 Oct

WOW 80's live show

📍 The Point Events Venue

Sat 24 Oct

Definitely Oasis - Sunderland

📍 Independent

From £15.00

Thu 1 Oct

Quite Quiet #6 - James Leonard Hewitson, Daniel Maple, Lily Mac

📍 Port Independent

£8.30

Thu 1 Oct

The Music of Fleetwood Mac by Candlelight

📍 Sunderland Empire

From £32

Fri 2 Oct

Grace House 'Welcome to Holland' Ball

📍 Grand Hotel Sunderland

£49.46 - £488.24

Fri 2 Oct

Sweetheart

📍 Diegos Joint

£6.00

Sat 3 Oct

Oliver Thomas Armstrong + This Glorious Chaos Machine

📍 The Engine Room

Sun 4 Oct

The Primitives

📍 Pop Recs

Wed 7 Oct

Jazz Emu: The Pleasure Is All Yours

📍 The Fire Station

Thu 8 Oct

Trinity Folk Club

📍 Seventeen Nineteen

£0.00

Fri 9 Oct

SMS Presents - 808 State

📍 Salt Market Social

£13.64

Thu 1 Oct

How to Write a Business Plan That Works

📍 One Trinity Green

Thu 1 Oct

Autumn Botanicals and Journalling – Part 2

📍 Hills Arts Centre

Sat 3 Oct

KIDS CRAFT WORKSHOP - SPOOKY CLAY CREATIONS

📍 Grindon Young Peoples Centre

£6.13

Tue 6 Oct

Learn to Ride Class (A4A)

📍 Thompson Park cycling skills area. Located in the middle of the park close to the big slide.

Wed 7 Oct

From Fog To Focus

Wed 7 Oct

Primary Education: A Journey Through the Key Stages

📍 Online

Wed 7 Oct

'Canny Canvasses' - Painting Workshop

📍 Cafe Obscura

£22.38

Thu 8 Oct

A Court of Thorns and Roses Sip and Paint - Sunderland

📍 Waterstones

£10.00

Sat 10 Oct

Inclusive cycling (SEND) - 1:1 Learn to Ride Sessions (A4A)

📍 Thompson Park cycling skills area. Located in the middle of the park close to the big slide.

Sat 10 Oct

Sea Rangers: Seabird survey

📍 Souter Lighthouse

Sun 11 Oct

Marbled Plant Pot Making Workshop

📍 Cantoro Lounge

£35.00

Tue 13 Oct

Learn to Ride Class (A4A)

📍 Thompson Park cycling skills area. Located in the middle of the park close to the big slide.

Fri 2 Oct

A Night At The Darts Sunderland

📍 The Point Events Venue

Sat 10 Oct

Sunderland vs Brighton & Hove Albion

📍 Stadium of Light

From €139.23

Sat 24 Oct

Sunderland vs Leeds United

📍 Stadium of Light

From €139.23

Sun 4 Oct

Urban Trail Series

📍 Biddick Academy

£27.00 - £32.00

Sun 4 Oct

CXNE 2026/27 Round 4

📍 Hetton Lyons Country Park

Sat 10 Oct — Sun 11 Oct

Whitburn Archers 2.4k Challenge - 4 World Record Status WA18 rounds

Sat 10 Oct — Sun 11 Oct

Sunderland Tennis Centre Winter Regional Tour 11U Boys

📍 Sunderland Tennis Centre

Sun 11 Oct

Northern Ringsports

📍 Temple Park Leisure Centre South Shields

Sun 11 Oct

Let's Move Family Activity Day 2026

📍 The Beacon of Light

Thu 15 Oct

Sunderland Afc Vs Az Alkmaar - Europa League 2026-2027

📍 Stadium of Light

From £147.00

Sat 17 Oct

Cycle Skills Games (A4A)

📍 Thompson Park (Cycle skills area - next to the big slide)

Wed 21 Oct

Primary Care Musculoskeletal & Mental Health Event

📍 Mercure Newcastle George Washington Hotel Golf & Spa

Thu 1 Oct

October Property Event - Property Investors North East - Face to Face Meet!

📍 Casa Rosa

£22.38 - £27.80

Fri 2 Oct

Domestic Abuse Support Drop-In

📍 Future Living Hertford

Tue 6 Oct

Working together, better: Research in the North East and North Cumbria

📍 Stadium of Light

Tue 6 Oct

Friends of Grace House Networking October - Culture House

📍 Culture House Sunderland

Free - £6.13

Tue 13 Oct

Mind the Generation Gap: Creating the Future-Ready Workplace

📍 Lighthouse Suite, Roker Hotel, BW Premier Collection

Wed 14 Oct

Beyond the Essentials

📍 The Fire Station

£0.00

Wed 14 Oct

Purple Mash Roadshow: North East (Sunderland) Afternoon Session

📍 Sheepfolds Stables

Wed 14 Oct

The Heart of the City - Where people are the key ingredient in business

📍 No 32. The Beam

Thu 15 Oct

SunFest 2026

📍 The Fire Station

£90.00 - £120.00

Thu 15 Oct

Purple Mash Roadshow: North East (Sunderland) Morning Session

📍 Sheepfolds Stables

Wed 21 Oct

North East Manufacturing Innovation Forum - Then, Now & Next

📍 SASMI Building

Thu 1 Oct

Distance Learning Initial Teacher Training Q&A

📍 Online

Mon 5 Oct

Healthcare Science and Biomedical Events (Apprenticeships and CPD)

📍 University of Sunderland (Online)

Thu 8 Oct

The 61st Annual Hope Winch Lecture

📍 Murray Health (The Murray Library)

Sat 10 Oct

JOHN WRIGHT & HIS SONS – THE MEN WHO MOVED NORTH SHIELDS UPHILL

£3.41 - £6.13

Tue 13 Oct

Teaching and Education Events (Apprenticeship and CPD)

📍 University of Sunderland (Online)

Wed 14 Oct

Engineering and Digital Events (Apprenticeship and CPD)

Thu 15 Oct

Primary Care Events (Apprenticeships and CPD)

Thu 15 Oct

History Mysteries: Joan of Arc and her Voices

📍 Seventeen Nineteen

Free - £6.13

Sat 17 Oct

An Afternoon with Ann Cleeves

📍 The Word, National Centre for the Written Word

Fri 23 Oct

Cramlington Library - Local History Talk with Brian Godfrey

📍 Cramlington Library

Fri 30 Oct

The Allotment Sisterhood, Sunderland launch

📍 Port Independent Store ltd

Sat 31 Oct

BDTH Halloween House Party

📍 Vaux Social

From £5.00

Sat 24 Oct

Cramlington’s Halloween Maze

📍 elite: Cramlington

Sat 24 Oct

Halloween Wreath Making at Souter Lighthouse, South Tyneside

📍 Souter Lighthouse

Sold out at source

Sun 25 Oct

Spooktacular Sunday @ Beaconhill

📍 Beaconhill Community Association

Sun 25 Oct

Halloween Paint & Sip

📍 Vineyard 72

£22.38

Wed 28 Oct

The new sundial spooky spectacular

📍 The New Sundial

Sat 31 Oct

Halloween family party

📍 The New Sundial

Sat 31 Oct

Durham Wildlife Trust Halloween Spooktacular

📍 Rainton Meadows

Fri 2 Oct

LK Events - The Greatest Show-Case. South Tyneside Young Performers Event

📍 Hedworth Hall (QT Italian Restaurant)

£8.83 - £11.55

Sat 3 Oct

AHOY THERE, ME OLD MUCKERS!” – AN AFTERNOON WITH MARINERS AND MARRAS

£11.55

Fri 9 Oct

Ogrepalooza presents: 25 Years of Shrek featuring The Ogretones

📍 The Point

£11.55

Sat 10 Oct

The Poetry Surgery - Wallsend

📍 Wallsend Library

Sat 10 Oct — Sun 11 Oct

Room 101 - #001 Fashion Store takeover.

📍 Venue to be Annoucned 48hrs before.

Sat 17 Oct — Sun 18 Oct

Ghost Hunting at Royalty Theatre (Sunderland)

📍 The Royalty Theatre

Sold out at source

Sun 25 Oct

ATG INSPIRE Academy Sunderland

📍 Sunderland Empire

From £168

Sat 31 Oct

Murder At The Haunted Cafe

📍 Blaydon Youth & Community Centre

Thu 1 Oct

Walk Old Sunderland, monthly walk and talk tour

📍 Seventeen Nineteen - Holy Trinity Church

Sat 3 Oct

A Mindful Woodland Walk & Nature Immersion

📍 Hengistbury Head

Wed 7 Oct

Space 2 Grow Volunteering Session

📍 A Space 2 Grow

Sat 10 Oct

Urban Explorers: Sunderland

📍 HICSA

£14.00

Sat 10 Oct — Sun 11 Oct

Ghost Hunt - The Barnes Institute

📍 The Barnes Institute

£24.54

Sat 31 Oct

8Y+ Little Seekers Ghost Hunt Havelock Tower Sunderland With Spirit Seekers

📍 Deptford and Millfield Community Centre

£10.46 - £24.11

Sat 31 Oct — Sun 1 Nov

Ghost hunt - Havelock Tower (Sunderland) With Spirit Seekers

📍 Deptford and Millfield Community Centre

£23.46 - £46.21

Sat 24 Oct

Sunderland - DayClubbers: The Halloween Day Party!

📍 The 3 Stories

From £11.99

Fri 2 Oct

Independence Day & New Intake Welcome Party

📍 De’XCape Lounge

£5.00 - £10.00

Wed 14 Oct

Sunderland Business Festival: Thinkforward Innovation in Action

📍 Sunderland College - Bede Campus

Fri 30 Oct

Sunderland Spooktacular 2026 – Double Firework Extravaganza!

📍 Barnes Park

£6.00

Fri 30 Oct

The Emo Festival Comes to Sunderland!

📍 The Point

£16.99 - £23.59

Sat 31 Oct

Interrobang?! & a.b.a.d.e @ The Ship Isis

📍 The Ship Isis

£10.00

Fri 16 Oct — Sun 18 Oct

Oktoberfest | Keel Square, Sunderland

📍 67 76 High Street West

From £6.00

Fri 2 Oct

Guided Beer Tasting & Cheese Pairing Experience in a Brewery

📍 Brewlab

Thu 15 Oct

Winter Warmers Wine Tasting

📍 Vineyard72 Front Street

Fri 16 Oct

Oktoberfest | Sunderland | University of Sunderland Takeover

📍 High Street West

£10.00

Tue 20 Oct

Autumn Cake and Sip

📍 Alev's of Tynemouth Cafe

Wed 28 Oct

An Evening with Carlos Filipe Fernandez, Portuguese Wine Producer

📍 Vineyard72 Front Street

Fri 2 Oct

Susan Calman : Tall Tales

📍 Sunderland Empire

From £34

Sat 3 Oct

MIK ARTISTIK'S EGO TRIP (SUNDERLAND)

📍 The Ship Isis

£18.59

Wed 14 Oct

Nurse Georgie Carroll: Infectious

📍 The Fire Station

Fri 16 Oct

24 Hours In Paris at Independent

📍 Independent

£5.00

Mon 5 Oct

An Evening of Mediumship ~ Annitsford

📍 Annitsfor Irish Club

From £15.00

Tue 6 Oct

MURTON Ex Servicemans Club

📍 Murton Ex Servicemans Club

Wed 14 Oct

SUNDERLAND Roker Hotel

📍 The Roker Hotel

Sat 10 Oct

Ska Day Party: Sunderland 🎺

📍 The Point

£10 - £20

Sat 31 Oct — Sun 1 Nov

Clubland Halloween Sunderland

📍 Elysium NightClub

From £20.00

Fri 2 Oct — Sat 3 Oct

Ghost Hunting at Havelock Towers, Sunderland

📍 Havelock Towers

£27.00

Sat 3 Oct — Sun 4 Oct

Y2K Rewind ( 🇳🇬 THE INDEPENDENCE WEEKEND PARTY 🇬🇧)

📍 Elysium NightClub

£9.00

Sat 31 Oct

KIDS CRAFT HALLOWEEN PARTY

📍 Grindon Young Peoples Centre

£6.13

Mon 5 Oct

Shop Talk: Connecting Sunderland’s High Street Businesses

📍 Harrison & Brown Furniture Ltd

Sat 10 Oct

Holistic Wellbeing Event

📍 Linskill Centre

Sun 11 Oct

New Moon - Sunday Sanctuary Sound Bath

📍 Pennywell Business Centre

£19.12

Sun 18 Oct

Throat Chakra Journey | Hypnotherapy & Sound

📍 Pennywell Business Centre

£31.58