Stir up Sunday – make your Xmas pudding

Stir up Sunday – make your Xmas pudding

Stir-up Sunday – 22 November 2026 There are some Christmas traditions worth keeping alive. The Sunday before Advent is traditionally known as Stir-up Sunday – the day families would gather together to make their Christmas pudding, giving it several weeks to mature before Christmas Day. The name actually comes from the opening words of the old Church of England collect for the day: “Stir up, we bes