Festival of Leisure Review

The last weekend in June traditionally sees the 2 day Festival of Leisure take place at Maurice Lea Park in Church Gresley.  This is a very popular event to launch the Summer activities within South Derbyshire and proved very popular once again this year.

Along with sporting activities, displays and performances of a wide variety, the Festival features a lot of stalls and activities to take part in and a chance to raise awareness of the work done by many different organisations.  This year had a Japanese theme to coincide with the 25th anniversary of the twinning with Toyota city and these seemed to be well received.

It has also proved to be a very good way of raising awareness of our work and promoting cycling.  We have not run our own stall for a few years but have supported the information provided by the Visitor Information Centre.

This year we provided information made specifically for our display in the ViC earlier in the year and the new leaflets appeared to be very popular.  We hope they have been useful to those who picked them up.  We have updated the page with information on local cycling routes with images of these leaflets which are also available at the ViC in Swadlincote.