Birmingham’s first chocolate festival, Chocival, was back at Brindleyplace for a sweet second year on Saturday 21 October with plenty of cocoa-based treats and a chocolate gunge tank in aid of Birmingham St. Mary’s Hospice.

 Taking place in Central Square at Brindleyplace between 11am and 6pm, Chocival was choc-a-block with stalls selling a range of indulgent and unusual chocolate products as well as entertainment, demonstrations and live music. 

 As if it was not enough of the lovely stuff - Central Square played home to a chocolate gunge tank, which over the two days on site saw volunteers from local business get gunged for charity. The "gunge your boss" and "gunge a mate" campaigns provided some side-splitting entertainment for visitors and raised a fantastic amount for St. Mary`s Hospice, who are one of the charity partners for 2017. The chocolate gunge tank was open to the public to gunged  their family and friends. It costed only £25 to signed up someone else in advance and if you raised  £100 you would even to be able to pull the leaver. 
 Live band performances took place at The Water`s Edge and there were a number of children`s chocolate decorating activities offered by the stall holders, which proved to be extremely popular. 

 The first Chocolate festival in Birmingham was a huge hit, with city`s chocoholics visiting Brindleyplace in their thousands, but this year the event was bigger and better and the previous year with more stalls, live chocolate demonstrations and children`s decorating activities. 
 I am curious what is going to be the next chocolate festival - Chococival 2018. 

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