The annual west London event will not go ahead as planned from August 30-31 This year’s Notting Hill Carnival has been cancelled for the first time in 50 years over continued fears about the outbreak of coronavirus.
The annual event in west London had been due to take place from August 30-31 this year. The organisers of Notting Hill Carnival confirmed today (May 7) that it would not be staging its 2020 edition due to the ongoing coronavirus crisis.
It marks the first time in the Carnival’s history, which spans over 50 years, that it has been cancelled. Acknowledging the “many challenges” that they have faced in trying to plan this year’s Carnival in the face of the pandemic, organisers said “the reality of the COVID-19 pandemic and the way