📅 October 2026 Events in Wakefield

Thu 22 Oct

Harry Potter Quiz Event

📍 Dungeons & Donuts

£4.50 - £5.04

Fri 2 Oct

EcoFolk: Your Creative and Performance Passport This Autumn

📍 Nostell Priory

Fri 9 Oct

Face Your Fears - 2026

📍 Yorkshire Scare Grounds Scream Park

Sat 10 Oct

Face Your Fears - 2026

📍 Yorkshire Scare Grounds Scream Park

Sun 11 Oct

Face Your Fears - 2026

📍 Yorkshire Scare Grounds Scream Park

Thu 15 Oct

Face Your Fears - 2026

📍 Yorkshire Scare Grounds Scream Park

Fri 16 Oct

Face Your Fears - 2026

📍 Yorkshire Scare Grounds Scream Park

Sat 17 Oct

Face Your Fears - 2026

📍 Yorkshire Scare Grounds Scream Park

Sun 18 Oct

Face Your Fears - 2026

📍 Yorkshire Scare Grounds Scream Park

Tue 20 Oct

Bizzy Lasses Connect

📍 Theatre Royal Wakefield

Free - £10.00

Thu 22 Oct

MY Network Wakefield

📍 Theatre Royal Wakefield

Thu 22 Oct

Face Your Fears - 2026

📍 Yorkshire Scare Grounds Scream Park

Thu 1 Oct

Pontefract Ghost Walk

📍 The Counting House Pontefract

£9.38

Tue 6 Oct

Wellbeing Bike Ride - Havercroft and Ryhill

📍 Havercroft & Ryhill Community Learning Centre

Thu 8 Oct

Wakefield ghost walk

📍 The Black Horse Wakefield

£14.79

Fri 9 Oct

Foraging Skills - Fryston Country Trails

📍 Fryston Community Centre

Thu 15 Oct

Pontefract Ghost Walk

📍 The Counting House Pontefract

£10.46

Sun 18 Oct

BMFA Northern Area Achievement Scheme Training & Testing Day

📍 Pontefract Race Course

Wed 21 Oct

Art in Nature - Fryston Country Trails

📍 Fryston Community Centre

Fri 23 Oct

Lino Printing - Frickley Country Park

📍 Frickley Athletic Football Ground

Sat 24 Oct — Sun 1 Nov

October Half Term: Ghosts!

📍 Nostell

Sat 24 Oct — Sun 1 Nov

October Half Term: Ghost Walks

📍 Nostell

Sun 25 Oct — Tue 27 Oct

October Half Term: Bat Walks

📍 Nostell

Tue 27 Oct

Colls Holiday Camp — October Half Term

📍 The Hunters Stadium

From £20

Fri 2 Oct

Own Your Throne pt.4

📍 Haus Coffee & Plants Wakefield Ltd.

£11.81

Sat 10 Oct

Common Ground: Rooted Through Change (Feel Good Yorkshire Launch event)

📍 Brierley Road

£22.38

Mon 12 Oct

Canals on Prescription, Stanley, Wakefield

📍 The Stanley Ferry

Mon 12 Oct

Chakra Alignment Meditation w/light language transmission

📍 Moss & Moon Wellbeing

From £11.11

Wed 14 Oct

Wellness Wednesday

📍 Haus Coffee & Plants Wakefield Ltd.

£16.70

Thu 15 Oct

Therapeutic Art

📍 Tesco Extra - Community Workshop

Fri 16 Oct

PONTEFRACT: Deep Relaxation Gong Bath & Reiki Meditation

📍 Santosha Yoga Studio, Pontefract

£20.00

Sat 17 Oct

Yoga and Reiki Family Retreat

📍 Outwood Memorial Hall

£30.00

Mon 19 Oct

Work and Wellbeing: Community Voices on Work, Job Seeking & Health

📍 St George's Lupset

Mon 19 Oct

Work and Wellbeing: Community Research Findings and Discussion

📍 St George's Lupset

Mon 19 Oct

Canals on Prescription, Stanley, Wakefield

📍 The Stanley Ferry

Thu 22 Oct

Healthy Skin On Purpose: From Bleach to Healing

📍 Concierge Nurse UK

£55.00

Tue 6 Oct — Wed 7 Oct

ASIST - Suicide Prevention 2 day Training Course

📍 Lightwaves

Wed 7 Oct

Coppicing in Practice Home Education Session

📍 Fryston Community Centre

Thu 8 Oct

Dementia Awareness Workshop

📍 St Mary’s Community Centre, Pontefract

Wed 14 Oct

The GEO Problem: Why AI is not recommending you - and how to change that

📍 Yorkshire Sculpture Park

Sat 17 Oct — Sun 18 Oct

Happy Hare Sewing Retreat 2026

📍 Holiday Inn

£54.88

Sat 17 Oct

Open Day 2026

📍 Camphill Wakefield

Sat 17 Oct

Beginners Upholstery Course: Make a footstool in a day. October 17th.

📍 The Hepworth Wakefield

£115.00

Sat 17 Oct

The Jesmonite Autumn Pumpkin Pot Workshop in Ossett, Wakefield

📍 A Touch of Craft Yorkshire

£36.00

Sun 18 Oct

Origami Fairy Lights (ATOCY, morning)

📍 A Touch of Craft Yorkshire

£25.00

Sun 18 Oct

Papercut Lantern Workshop (ATOCY, afternoon)

📍 A Touch of Craft Yorkshire

£25.00

Wed 21 Oct

Mosaic Decorations at Lakeside Arts Centre

📍 Lakeside Creative Arts Centre (Methodist Church)

£33.22

Thu 22 Oct

Leading Primary Computing with Confidence (In-Person, Wakefield)

📍 MINT Support LTD

£81.96

Fri 2 Oct — Sat 3 Oct

Wakefield ALT / ROCK / METAL Reunion 2026

📍 Lost Property

Sat 3 Oct

Absolute Benson 03.10.2026

📍 Soho Social

Sat 10 Oct

Odyssey 10.10.2026

📍 Soho Social

Thu 1 Oct

Dewsbury Rock Choir

Fri 9 Oct

Tim Burgess (DJ Set)

📍 The Garrison

£15.00

Sat 10 Oct

Northern Soul Day Party: Barnsley ✊

📍 Che Bar & Coco Nightclub

£10.00

Sat 10 Oct

BYOB & UNTIL9. (U9 Album launch)

📍 Vault 27

£10.00

Sat 10 Oct

A Vision of Elvis

📍 Theatre Royal Wakefield

Fri 16 Oct

Queen Greatest Hits Wakefield

📍 Theatre Royal Wakefield

From £29.00

Sat 24 Oct

Un PC United - Hung Like Hanratty, Dirtbox Disco & Friends

📍 Vault 27

£22.38

Sat 24 Oct

80s Day Disco: Barnsley 🪩

📍 Che Bar & Coco Nightclub

£10.00

Sat 24 Oct

An Evening of Song

📍 The Blind Pig

£8.83 - £16.96

Thu 1 Oct

The Big Classroom | South Yorkshire

📍 Horizon Community College

£150.00

Thu 1 Oct

Wakefield Freelance Collective - Monthly Social for Creatives

📍 WX Wakefield

Fri 2 Oct

We Are Wakefield Networking Friday 2nd October 2026

📍 WX - Wakefield Exchange

Free - £15.00

Fri 2 Oct

Business Growth Workshop powered by ActionCOACH White Rose

📍 WX - Wakefield Exchange

Wed 7 Oct

Maximise Your Membership - Blacker Hall Farm

📍 Blacker Hall Farm Shop

Free - £15.00

Wed 7 Oct

Blue Light Training- October

📍 Socialicious

Wed 7 Oct

The Business Network - Wakefield

£0.00

Tue 13 Oct

Computing & Digital Leaders Network Meeting - Autumn (Wakefield)

📍 MINT Support

Free - £33.22

Wed 14 Oct

Mediation Matters: Breakfast at The Art House

📍 The Art House

Sat 17 Oct

The Card Expo - Wakefield (Trading Card Show) - Halloween Special

📍 WX Wakefield

Free - £40.00

Mon 19 Oct

Carbon Literacy Training (For Venue-Based Organisations)

📍 WX Wakefield

Tue 20 Oct

Carbon Literacy Training (For Non-Venue Based Organisations)

📍 WX Wakefield

Thu 1 Oct

Planet Circus OMG presents -Daredevils Stunts OMG! Tingley

📍 Big Top

Fri 2 Oct

Planet Circus OMG presents -Daredevils Stunts OMG! Tingley

📍 Big Top

Sat 3 Oct

Planet Circus OMG presents -Daredevils Stunts OMG! Tingley

📍 Big Top

Fri 2 Oct

Potions Lab Woodland Play

📍 Fryston Country Trails

Sun 4 Oct

Planet Circus OMG presents -Daredevils Stunts OMG! Tingley

📍 Big Top

Thu 15 Oct

Risk and Resilience Framework - Wakefield Suite - Wakefield One

📍 Wakefield One

Fri 2 Oct — Sat 3 Oct

Oktoberfest Doncaster - Friday 2nd October 2026

📍 Doncaster Racecourse

From £15.99

Sat 3 Oct

Oktoberfest Doncaster - Saturday 3rd October 2026

📍 Doncaster Racecourse

From £15.99

Mon 5 Oct

Psychic Nights One To One Readings

📍 Darrington Hotel

£32.67

Tue 13 Oct

Psychic Nights One To One Readings.

📍 Beverley Inn

£32.67

Sat 24 Oct

OPERATION PRAYER POWER: A COSMIC MISSION FOR GLOBAL HEALING

📍 The Aetherius Temple - Barnsley

£16.00 - £20.00

Thu 8 Oct

Basic Life Support and Anaphylaxis

📍 St Peter & St Pauls Catholic Church

Mon 19 Oct

Open Event | Castleford College | 19th October

📍 Castleford College

Wed 21 Oct

Open Event | Wakefield College | 21st October

📍 Wakefield College

Sat 24 Oct

Full day Antenatal class 1-4

📍 Pinderfields Hospital Education Centre

Tue 20 Oct

The Mobile Police Museum

📍 Pontefract Masonic Hall

£3.96

Sat 24 Oct

Wakefield - Waterfront and Mills to City Centre

📍 Tileyard North

£5.00 - £10.00

Tue 27 Oct

Relaxed Opening - 27 October

📍 The Cooper Gallery

Wed 28 Oct

Apple ID Day

📍 Nostell

Thu 1 Oct

Shake Up - Cocktail Comp' and Havana Rum Tasting

📍 RBT Video

Sat 10 Oct

Pink with Purpose - Thermomix Workshop

📍 Thermomix Yorkshire and NE Branch

Mon 26 Oct

Tasting with James Long

📍 Shaw Lane Sports Centre

Thu 29 Oct

Wine & Cheese pairing evening

📍 West Riding Refreshment Rooms

Sat 17 Oct — Sun 18 Oct

Back2Bounce The Halloween Hangover

📍 The Doncaster Warehouse

From £10.00

Fri 30 Oct — Sat 31 Oct

Locked Into The Bassline: Halloween 360 FACE2FACE (Wakefield)

📍 Club Nocturno

From £8.50

Sat 31 Oct — Sun 1 Nov

I Skank : Halloween Debut

📍 Labyrinth Doncaster

From £10.00

Fri 30 Oct

Woodland Witches Camp

📍 Fryston Community Centre

Fri 2 Oct

2026 WKO British Open Championships

📍 Metrodome Leisure Complex

Sun 11 Oct

Celebrity charity football match

📍 Pontefract Collieries FC

£13.70 - £27.80

Wed 14 Oct

2026 NRoSO Train the Trainer Events

📍 Darrington Golf Club

£140.00

Tue 27 Oct

Go 2 College Soccer Trial Event and ID Camp - Leeds, England.

📍 West Riding County Football Association

Thu 8 Oct

Managing AI in the Workplace- Legal and Practical

📍 Chadwick Lawrence Wakefield Office

Thu 15 Oct

Wakefield After Dark, Photographs of the City at Night - Richard Walls

📍 The Kingswood Suite, Wakefield Town Hall

Fri 16 Oct

People's Emergency Briefing

📍 Thornhill Street

Mon 26 Oct

Orchard talk with Nostell's Senior Gardener

📍 Nostell