Kidbrooke Village Summer Fête

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Kidbrooke Village Summer Fête is fun for all the family – come and play!

To celebrate the launch of a brand new play space at Cator Park, Kidbrooke Village is hosting a fun-filled summer fête between 12pm and 5pm with plenty of activities to keep the whole family entertained.  It’s an afternoon packed with music and dance performances, competitions and challenges, delicious food and loads of activities for kids to get stuck into, from circus skills demonstrations to an interactive bubble show and arts and crafts classes for those who want to get creative.

Children of all ages should come down and discover the fantastic new place space, which was developed in collaboration with award-winning Apes Adventure Playground Engineers who designed the Olympic Park Playground. The new play space is open to all – it has been designed to inspire children to explore the world around them with play trails, sculptures and structures to jump, swing and hang from.

To help kids discover the natural beauty on their doorsteps London Wildlife Trust will be holding a range of workshops and activities, including teaching willow weaving and basket-making as well as pond dipping sessions where children can discover the incredible creatures and minibeasts that live in Kidbrooke Village’s wetlands.  The team from Wildlife Trust will be unveiling colourful stepping stones as well as a series of brass rubbings of the park’s plants and wildlife.

These will be dotted around the park as part of an educational ecology trail along with large colouring maps to encourage kids to get creative and start exploring the park and new play space.There will be range of food and drink options available at the summer fête with Kidbrooke’s newly opened village pub, The Depot, hosting a pop-up outdoor bar.  The RARE Farmers’ Market will be relocating for the day from Royal Arsenal Riverside, so visitors can grab a bite to eat and enjoy delicious gourmet food in the fête’s exclusive picnic area.

There will be lots of different stalls to browse, with many focused on helping people understand how they can reduce their carbon footprints.  To get visitors thinking about their energy consumption, people can hop on an electric bike and challenge a friend to a head-to-head ‘race’ to generate enough human-powered energy to boil a small amount of water.

And if that isn’t enough peddle-power for people to get involved in, the main stage, which is sponsored by energy provider E.ON, will be powered by 14 bikes using renewable energy – people need to hop on a bike and get those legs pumping to ensure that the music doesn’t stop! To motivate people to step up to the plate, participants will be entered into a raffle to win free food and drink from The Depot pub – so get those cycling shoes on and come on down to the fête for a chance to win a tasty cocktail or pizza.

For those looking for further advice on how they can be more eco-friendly, E.ON will be giving demonstrations of their latest energy saving technology on the main stage, while IKEA will be running short masterclasses packed with handy tips on upcycling to help people prolong the life of old furniture and make the most of waste materials which might otherwise go to landfill. To find out more about the Kidbrooke Village Summer Fête, please visit the Kidbrooke Village Community Facebook page (@kidbrookevillage).  The event is suitable for all ages.

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Location: Cator Park, Kidbroooke Park Road, SE3 9FD

Details are subject to change so please make sure you check with the venue before setting out. Thanks!