Rhubarb Festival Competitions, 2026

Rhubarb growers. Pudding bakers. Preserve makers. It’s your time to shine at the Dunoon Rhubarb Festival!

Make your best rhubarb-flavoured puddings, cakes, jams, chutney or drink, bring your biggest stalk of rhubarb!

Show your tasty makes and giant stalks to be in with the chance of winning Best in Show.

1. Biggest stalk of rhubarb

2. Best rhubarb chutney

3. Best rhubarb jam

4. Best rhubarb show stopper

Start planning your prize-winning produce to show at Dunoon’s Rhubarb Festival.

When 

Sat, 25 July

• 9am to 11am Produce competition drop-off in the POP shop at 28 Hillfoot Street. Or you can drop off the week before (except rhubarb stalks) with instructions for how your produce needs to be stored.

• 1pm-ish Prize-giving announcements

• 1pm to 3pm Browse the competition entries

• 1.30pm to 3.45pm Collect your entry to take home

Where

At the POP shop

28 Hillfoot Street, 

Dunoon, PA23 7DS.

Register to enter

Register online here or pop into the shop for a paper form.

It's free to attend the festival and enter the competitions.

Rhubarb Festival hosted by Dunoon Goes POP

Dunoon Rhubarb Festival, Hillfoot Street, part of the Taste Dunoon Food and Drink Festival produced by Dunoon Presents.

The Dunoon Rhubarb Festival is a free event including talks, demonstrations, tastings and more. It will be a fun day for families, gardeners, soft drinks aficionados, pudding makers, rhubarb newbies and experts alike.

This micro-festival is part of the Dunoon Rhubarb Revolution, led by Dunoon Goes POP, and you can read more here