Mango Festival will be a sweet treat for Broome

One of Broome’s favourite annual events will celebrate a milestone this year with the 25th running of the Broome Mango Festival.

The event is run by the Lions Club of Broome each year in the last weekend in November to raise funds for a range of causes.

This boosts the town’s tourism industry at the tail-end of the season and gives locals some excitement at a quiet time of year. Lions Club of Broome president Brian Pernich said the event would run from Thursday, November 23, to Sunday, November 27, and would be a special celebration to mark 25 years.

He said it was a huge achievement for a community festival run by volunteers to reach 25 years.

“The Lions Club are really proud that we’ve been able to put on the Mango Festival each year for the people of Broome and visitors to the town, and that we’ve also managed to raise so much money over the years for causes like the Kyle Andrews Foundation, the Royal Flying Doctor Service and cancer research, among many others,” Mr Pernich said.

“Mangoes are a big part of life in Broome at this time of the year, and I know this year everyone’s especially excited because we look like having a bumper harvest.”

The Mango Festival’s hallmark events are the Great Chefs of Broome and The Great Bartenders of Broome.

This year’s event promises to be bigger and better than ever, along with favourites such as the mango quiz night, the mango jams, cakes and chutneys competition and a mango tasting.

This year would also include a production by Theatre Kimberley of “An Ideal (Broome) Husband” at the Gimme Gimme Bar and a Mango Madness family fun day at the Roebuck Bay Hotel.