Over the summer we had some great family days out including attending the GoFest event at the University of Surrey venue. Coming from a seaside town it was great to spend some time away from the Coast. GoFest is in its second year and is the brainchild of founder Paul Farris. His idea is to inspire families to spend more time together, get healthy and find new activities.
We were invited to attend the weekend long event and being an active family already we were up for a challenge. We were able to book up to 4 activities in advance, with more available on the day. Activities started from 9am on the Saturday and included well-loved sports as well as some I had never heard of.
Our first stop was some family relays and obstacle fun, followed by an athletics masterclass with Olympian Roger Black. This was my highlight of the day as the boy learnt how to improve his running style, and set up for a sprint start. Roger was great with all the kids, and even stopped for a quick picture afterwards with the boy.
My next booked activity was Wall Ball, it sounded fun, and turned out to be a very energetic sport. We were treated to a one to one lesson followed by practice and a demonstration from the current UK champion. The boy bought his own wall ball, and we have since had a few family matches while on our family holiday.
Time for Mum and Dad Dragon to take a breather as the boy took part in a Free Running session with a Flair Gymnastics club. He had a great time and took part for a full hour. He learned some new moves, and was the only person to finish the class as the others dropped out. It was great for the boy to try out Free Running as he has wanted to try this for some time. Now I’m on a hunt for a local club.
We finished our GoFest day with a game of Dodgeball against another very competitive family. Girls verses Boys, and the Girls won. GoFest had plenty for us to take part in, as well as stalls, charity’s, and local clubs to chat too. A huge TV screen with coverage of the Olympics and we didn’t miss out on any of the medals during the day. GoFest ended with demonstrations of sport and dance, with live music and continued into the Sunday with more opportunities to try something new.
GoFest takes place in the summer at the Surrey Sports Park, part of the University of Surrey. With use of the Surrey University sports venue and grounds there were watersports, in the pool. You could use the university’s amazing climbing wall or join in with local clubs with the more recognised sports of football and tennis. There was far more than we could fit into the day, and we will defiantly have to come back next year for some more #GoFestUK fun.
Disclaimer, we were invited to attend the event in return for a review of our day.
That sounds like a fantastic day out and something my children, particularly sporty Miss M would absolutely love!
Looks like a great day out! All my four children are sporty so they would love it! They play tennis, football, rugby as well as go swimming!
That looks like good fun. All my kids love baking and swimming
sounds like a fun day !
we enjoy scooting and long walks
We love to do arts and crafts but our favourite has to be baking 🙂
My kids love making pom poms and decorating paper plates!
Looks fun
looks like great fun
I like to do finger painting with my kids, while they are quite little.
My girls love to paint…The messier the better. hehehe
Love to do crafts that aren’t messy, like origami 🙂
We make cards for friends and Teachers.
We enjoy arts and crafts, particularly painting
Looks like great fun, we really enjoy colouring in and baking.
We love trying origami
my Grandsons love messy art, lots of paint and sticking thing on paper
I love making scrapbooks with my kiddies.
We love going on nature walks and bringing home leaves pine cones and all manner of things to craft with. autumn leaf pictures are on the cards very soon now
My children enjoying making things out of shells and stones they find on our beach walks
We always make birthday cards for the family together
Me my daughter and niece do paper mache and painting
We love to make things from random items like straws and egg boxes – paper mache’ is a favourite too!
We have a big sticking and glueing box that is usually out most days and the house is full of homemade articles x
The obstacle race looked like fun, we might have to make our own in the garden.
We love to draw pictures and make pom poms
We love making puppets and play doh shapes
This sounds like a great day, my sport son would love this.
We love to do crafts and often bake, make cards and paint pictures
making paper money and playing pretend store
I love painting with my kids
We do a lot of crafts mainly painting, playdoh but we did make kites recently which was fun. We also enjoy a bit of baking
We enjoy arts and crafts and baking
This looks like a really fun day out
Sounds like such a fab day. It’s great to get kids out doing sports
My kids spend the whole weekend on their bikes.
we love making pictures with stickers and painting
we love painting and building with play doh
My daughter would happily do any type of arts and crafts but she’s quite happy colouring away for hours and hours
Looks great fun. Memories made for life.
We love painting and making handmade cards
Finger puppets
My kids love making monsters from old cardboard boxes
We love painting and glueing and sticking
My children loves all arts and crafts including messy play is their favourite x
We love crafting! We love paint and draw and colour! We also love making things out of paper plates, such as funny faces, jungle and animal scenes, and my girls have just discovered how to create pretty pom-poms and French knitting!
We like making personal cards for family and friends
we enjoy lots of crafts, at the moment we are making decorations ready for halloween
We love to bake
Looks fab! We were considering going but didn’t, may have to go next year now