Ilkeston Halloween Trick or Treat Trail 2026

4 September, 2026

Ilkeston’s popular Halloween Trick or Treat Trail will return to the town centre on Friday 30 October 2026, with local shops, businesses and organisations once again joining together to provide treats for youngsters.

The trail will get underway from 3.30pm, with children and families encouraged to dress up and visit the participating locations around Ilkeston town centre.

This page will be updated as more businesses join the 2026 Trick or Treat Trail, so keep checking back for the latest list.

Ilkeston Trick or Treat Trail 2026

📅 Friday 30 October 2026
⏰ From 3.30pm
📍 Ilkeston town centre

Halloween at Erewash Museum

There will also be Halloween fun at Erewash Museum, which will be open from 11am until 4pm.

Families can therefore make a day of their visit to Ilkeston, before the town centre Trick or Treat Trail gets underway from 3.30pm.

Where can you Trick or Treat in Ilkeston?

More than 60 businesses and organisations are now on the list for this year’s trail. The participating locations are listed below, including temporary stops around the Market Place and other specific locations where details have been supplied.

Purplehaze’s Parlour
Slightly Potty
The Hub
Rutland Sports Park – Market Place
Totally Polished Beauty Training Academy
Carters Prestige
Tangled Hair and Beauty / Elemental Tattoo Studio
Back Yard Bacon Co Butchers
Heron Foods
trentbarton buses
Nottingham Building Society
The Aesthetics & Beauty Co
Gladstonian Micro Bar
Ilkeston Plumbing and Heating Supplies – Market Place
Treetops Ilkeston Charity Shop
Annie’s Coffee Shop
Hair & Beauty Collective
Willbond – spooky van at Lower Market Place
Specsavers
Tudor Jewellers
Legs Wine Bar
D I Blow
Spanish Bar
Burchell Edwards Estate Agents
Renshaw Estates
Mega Sun
P3
Ilkeston Town Hall
Earls Hair & Beauty
A. W. Lymn and City Flowers
ReINKarnation Tattoo Studio
Headrock Salon & Barber Shop and Simply Beauty
Flower Flare
Little Footsteps Boutique – 127 Bath Street
The Harrow public house
Stanton
Bespoke Funeral Care
Greggs
Latch Lifter public house
Subway
Petals Flowers
Kerry’s Chippie
Hogarths
Wards Environmental
Emz4Massage
One Beyond
DHA Training and Advice Centre
The General Havelock public house
Hamiltons
Premier Community Mobility
Ilkeston Police Neighbourhood Team
Uptan – outside 777 Casino
Framed and Locked Up
Whitegates
Ray’s Second Hand / House Clearance
Toni-Louise Clinic & Academy – opposite Scala Cinema, behind the King’s Head
KH Salon – South Street
Cocoa’s Chocolates and Gifts – South Street
Moore’s Flowers – South Street
Card Factory – Albion Centre
Scala Cinema
Brew and Belong

Please support the businesses that make it possible

There’s another side to the Trick or Treat Trail that is worth recognising.

For families, it’s a free afternoon of Halloween fun. But for many of the businesses taking part, there is a real cost involved. When hundreds of youngsters come through the town, providing enough sweets and treats can soon add up. These are local businesses choosing to put their own money into something that brings families into Ilkeston and creates a bit of fun for the town.

So perhaps we can return that support – not just on Halloween, but throughout the year.

When you’re shopping, eating out, booking an appointment or looking for a local service, remember the businesses that get behind events like this. Supporting them when we can helps ensure we continue to have businesses willing and able to support our community in return.

And if you’d like to make a more direct contribution to the Trick or Treat Trail, you could always contact one of the participating businesses beforehand and offer to drop off a tub or bag of individually wrapped sweets for them to hand out.

Nobody is expected to contribute, and the trail remains about giving youngsters a fun Halloween. But whether it’s buying local during the year or donating a few sweets, we can all play a small part in supporting the businesses that help make events like this possible.