The Brighton
Medieval Banquet
2017 is the 50th anniversary of our charity partner –
Rockinghorse. As a consequence we wanted to do our bit to
help the charity meet its ambitious goal of raising £500,000 to
help sick children across Sussex.
Never one to shy away from a challenge
the marketing team at MWB came
up with an idea for a unique themed
fundraising event, The Brighton Medieval
Banquet.
From what we can tell the city hasn’t
hosted an event like this before and it
wasn’t long before plans were starting
to form.
This themed dining experience will be
a truly unique event as over 400 of the
County’s finest will be transported back
in time. The night will start with a drinks
reception, tankards of ale and goblets of
wine before you are called to be seated
at the long banqueting tables in the
‘Kings Hall’.
Medieval fayre will be served to the
tables and guests will help themselves
to the feast before them. During the
banquet guests will be entertained
by minstrels, jesters and possibly the
occasional sword fight! The evening
will be hosted by our celebrity King
(TV’s Sid Sloane) who will preside over
proceedings and there will be live music
to dance the night away.
Guests are encouraged to dress in
Medieval fashion and an amazing prize
awaits the best dressed couple on the
night. There will, of course, also be some
fundraising on the night with amazing
raffle prizes and auction items to help
Rockinghorse and the sick children of
Sussex.
To many of us the term Medieval
probably conjures up images of knights
in armour, damsels in distress and
castles with moats but when exactly was
the Medieval period and what was life
really like back then?
The Medieval period (also known as
the Middle Ages) lasted from the 5th to
the 15th century. It began with the fall
of the Western Roman Empire until the
dawn of the Renaissance and the Age of
Discovery. The Middle Ages is the middle
period of the three traditional divisions of
Western history: classical antiquity, the
Medieval period, and the modern period.
The Medieval period is itself subdivided
into the Early, High, and Late Middle
Ages.
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