On Monday 6 May, Bank Holiday, the Rec – just off Salisbury Road will be alive with the sounds and activity of youngsters trying out lots of different and new sports. The second Marlborough Sports Festival. It was in September 2021 that the first Marlborough’s first Sports Festival was held where anyone between the ages of ten and nineteen were given the opportunity to try lots of different sports. To see what they liked, what they enjoyed, or – most importantly of all – what they felt they could be good at. What they could discover there that could form an important and fulfilling part of their lives.
The first Sports Festival was extremely popular. This one can be as well as there will be more than ten different and new sports to try, including football, climbing, dance, cricket, skateboarding, tennis, dodgeball, rugby – and plenty more. The climbing wall proved extremely popular, not something normally found (or able tp be experienced) in or around Marlborough bit a safe and exciting way to try something very different.
The Sports Festival is free….. Funded by Marlborough’s Town Council and Wiltshire Council it’s an opportunity that, at the start of the summer will be perfectly timed to enable any chosen sports to be enjoyed across the coming months.
The event is being organised by the Marlborough Sports Forum and by Wiltshire & Swindon Sport (WASP). For further information contact Dominique Oughton of WASP at Dominique@wiltssport.org.
Although it’s free, organisers ask that you register here – at Eventbrite. Or click / scan the adjacent QR code to access the web page. No experience necessary, the day starts at 09:30 and goes through until mid-afternoon – 3:30pm. ,
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