Food and Drink
Here at Essence, we have many options of food and drink, from vending machines to the Dock coffee bar, so you can get snacks and treats throughout the day.
We ask those who are tenting at the festival to bring their own food to cook utilising their own gas cooking stoves etc. Alternatively there is a local pub around ½ a mile from site called the Brittania Inn.
There is also a local community run village shop with a small range of supplies, and café with good coffee and great pastries and cakes.
The Dock
About
The dock is:
A safe harbour, a port and safe place to stop at take on supplies of food, drink, rest and relaxation.
A meeting place for people to share their stories and interact and learn, interactions, exchanges and convergences.
A trading post and place of business and work opportunities.
A place of new frontiers, adventures and a place to begin journeys.
A coming home and a community to belong to.
Fairtrade
We source from fairtrade
All food and drink is sources from our links to Fairtrade organisations and local producers to ensure all we do at Essence is ethically traded and helps local businesses as much as possible.
We try to keep an as low carbon footprint as possible.
Why the Dock?
That concept has never gone, but life moves on at a great pace. So, in 2017 another venture was started with Essence Festival. The Well and that place of meeting and encounter still needs putting into process and it was decided that Essence Festival would be a great place to begin sniffing out that Holy Spirit guidance and coffee scented path once again.
The use of the word ‘Dock’ grabbed Mark and Mandie’s attention as they chatted through the idea. Firstly, a dock is the place where, so often goods, including coffee and tea, are brought into a country long before they are ready for sale. Mark and Mandie wanted to have some connection with the story and journey that the tea and coffee had been on.
Docks are also a place of mooring and safe harbour. They wanted The Dock to be a safe place where people can moor up and take some time out.
Docks are a place where lives, stories and journeys cross, be they the lives of sailors and dockers, goods and delivery drivers, or travellers. That takes us straight back to that moment when Jesus, travelling through Samaria, crosses the path of a woman and changes her life. We, at Essence, hope and pray that whatever happens with The Dock, that peoples journeys and stories intersect and lives are changed through a simple 21st century version of that moment at the well.
That concept has never gone, but life moves on at a great pace. So, in 2017 another venture was started with Essence Festival. The Well and that place of meeting and encounter still needs putting into process and it was decided that Essence Festival would be a great place to begin sniffing out that Holy Spirit guidance and coffee scented path once again.
The use of the word ‘Dock’ grabbed Mark and Mandie’s attention as they chatted through the idea. Firstly, a dock is the place where, so often goods, including coffee and tea, are brought into a country long before they are ready for sale. Mark and Mandie wanted to have some connection with the story and journey that the tea and coffee had been on.
Docks are also a place of mooring and safe harbour. They wanted The Dock to be a safe place where people can moor up and take some time out.
Docks are a place where lives, stories and journeys cross, be they the lives of sailors and dockers, goods and delivery drivers, or travellers. That takes us straight back to that moment when Jesus, travelling through Samaria, crosses the path of a woman and changes her life. We, at Essence, hope and pray that whatever happens with The Dock, that peoples journeys and stories intersect and lives are changed through a simple 21st century version of that moment at the well.