KIDSFEST – the festival by kids, for kids – 10 & 11 Sept 2011

Slip into jelly wellies, slop down the custard slide & chuck a duck in the toilet at Farnham’s fundraising festival!

  • · Loads of fun, original, creative and crazy activities devised by kids, for kids
  • · Everything included in one-price ticket from just £7.25 for the day (under 5s free)
  • · Festival will raise money to save the Bishop’s Meadow for the Farnham community

Kidsfest is the festival designed by children, for children, in a race against time to raise funds to save Farnham’s local Bishop’s Meadow from development.

The little festival with a big heart, which takes place on the 30-acre meadow in Farnham, will be filled with countless brilliant and crazy activities which only children could think up…from the ‘world-famous’ custard slide, the jelly welly obstacle course and lego-infested tent to punk choir, joke workshops and foot wrestling. Children will find themselves trying to beat the ‘eating chopsticks with smarties’ world record one moment, and burning off energy in an ‘immense zombie game’ in the next. If you ask nicely, the kids might even let you join in…

All profits from the festival will go to The Bishop’s Meadow Trust, which has been formed to raise the money to save the meadow in Farnham for the community and for future generations of children. When the meadow was threatened with potential building development, newspaper proprietor Sir Ray Tindle stepped in and bought the land, giving the local community two years to raise £200,000 to repay the price. The Trust will take the land into its care and protection for years to come.

Daniel Roche, the 11 year actor and star of hit series such as BBC’s Outnumbered and Just William, will be making a special appearance at Kidsfest to declare the festival open at 12pm on Saturday 10 September 2011. Alison Duguid, Kidsfest Committee Member, said: “We are absolutely thrilled that Dan will be able to join us at Kidsfest this September. He is a great ambassador for the festival, and we feel that his indomitable spirit, sense of adventure, love of the outdoors and fabulous humour sum up the true nature of Kidsfest.”

Book now online at www.kidsfestuk.org.uk - £7.25 event ticket (12-6pm) which includes all 101+ activities – and under-5s go free! Kidsfest takes place on the Bishop’s Meadow in Farnham, a pretty market town on the Surrey/Hampshire border, which can be reached in less than one hour on a direct line from London Waterloo and is an enjoyable place for a day out.

Kidsfest also includes a Kids Got Talent event on Friday 9 September (£10) and Farnham’s Big Night Out on the evening of Saturday 10 September (free; donations invited), so why not make a weekend of it?