After 12 months of lockdown, weeks of cancelled grassroots sport has taken its toll, not just on thousands of kids, but their parents too. They have missed the social interaction of cheering on their offspring from the sidelines, week in, week out.
For those parents itching to wean their children off screen-based activity and engage them in good old-fashioned outdoor fun, England rugby greats Will Greenwood and Austin Healey have the perfect solution.
From August 13-15 at the spectacular Holkham Estate in North Norfolk, Festival of Sport is offering active families the chance to try their hand at over 20 sports ranging from athletics to archery. And the pair have enticed some of their celebrity friends to come and join in the fun too. The likes of hockey’s Alex Danson, Rugby World Cup winner Mike Tindall, rowing’s double Olympic champion Anna Watkins, SAS: Who Dares Wins Jason Fox and a host of other sports stars will be rolling up their sleeves and inspiring young and slightly older alike to pull on those trainers and get stuck in.
To read more, go to the full article in the Telegraph.
