Sportfest Announces 2017 Return
Legend Holidays & Events has announced it will once again be hosting family weekend-long sporting festival, SportFest, from 21st – 23rd July 2017.
SportFest is held at the Wormsley Estate in Buckinghamshire and hosts a weekend of sports coaching from the nation’s legends, entertainment, camping and competitions.
Brand new for 2017, SportFest has added an extra night to its package, so families can now start the weekend on Friday 21st July 2017 with an afternoon of activities and entertainment, including an outdoor cinema night. Also new to next year, SportFest has introduced a wellness area where guests will be treated to yoga, massages and Pilates classes. In addition to this and following guests’ feedback from this year, SportFest has upgraded the programme on offer for adults who can try shooting, touch rugby, netball, hockey, tennis and dodgeball.
Children aged five to 16 will learn skills from sporting legends across 15 sports including the Olympic outdoor pursuits of hockey, athletics, rugby, boxing, gymnastics, trampoline gymnastics, volleyball, tennis, rowing, football and taekwondo; as well as the non-Olympic sports of cricket, dodgeball, sitting volleyball and netball.
The sporting legends joining guests at SportFest have previously included rugby stars Will Greenwood, Ali Williams and Zinzan Brooke; Netball players Jodie Gibson and Lindsay Keable; cricketers Matthew Hoggard and Phil DeFreitas; as well as, tennis player Annabel Croft.
Will Greenwood, founder and CEO of Legend Holidays, comments: “SportFest offers an exclusive chance for children up to the age of 16 to learn more about the sports they love with the legends they admire. We believe the key when encouraging kids to spend time getting active, is fun. SportFest allows children to discover new sports, develop or improve their skills as well as make everlasting family memories. Fun really is the biggest influencer when it comes to encouraging kids to spend time getting active and helping them discover which sports they enjoy most – especially those they may not otherwise be exposed to at school – is crucial to this.”
