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10 Issue 63 • July 2023

WORCESTER SHOW

Fun for all the family at the Worcester Show

Celebrate our city at its best –
whatever your interests, there is
something at the Worcester Show

that is perfect for you! Whether
it’s showcasing your talents in the

competition classes, sampling the
local produce, browsing the stalls
and displays, or simply sitting back

to enjoy the entertainment on
stage, this is a family event with Young competitor Ben
something for everyone. sketches out ideas for his
Worcester Show entries

Worcester City Council’s arts and entertainment
Community Engagement to the event and there
Team and an army of will also be a Community
dedicated volunteers have Marquee – where local
been busy organising the people will share their
event at Pitchcroft on skills, talents and interests.
Sunday 13 August – and it
will include a packed line- There’s still time to enter
up of live music, market the competition classes!
stalls, fun fair rides, a dog
show, sports demos, free As well as the traditional
activities and plenty of classes, there is a new
food and drink. category this year, Creative
Technology, reflecting the Other attractions include lots of extra parking for
There’s a 1980s theme to changing trends in hobbies Worcester Re-enactors, bikes, so please come along
this year’s show, so dig out and pastimes. To enter who will have their own on two wheels if you can!
your shoulder pads and leg your creation for any of the encampment featuring
warmers and get into that competitions, visit www. cannons, muskets and period DONATIONS WELCOME
‘80s vibe. worcestershow.org.uk. costumes. The Guinness Worcester Show
But hurry – the deadline World Record holder and is hugely popular,
Worcester Mela will bring for entries is Monday 7 running guru, Donato, will attracting around 20,000
an extravaganza of Asian August! be putting visitors through visitors every year. It is
their paces with his very own not a profit-making event
Fun with Worcester Re-enactors fitness activity and the Scouts and has been free to
at last year’s show will be demonstrating fire- enter in previous years.
lighting, tomahawk throwing, However, the costs of
and a daring obstacle staging it are spiralling
course. and last year’s event
cost £37,000 to stage
The show runs from 10am - £12,000 more than it
to 5pm and promises a fun- actually raised.
filled day for all the family,
so don’t forget to mark 13 This year, there will still
August in your diary! be no entrance fee, but
visitors to the show will
GET ON YOUR BIKE! be asked to make a
This year’s show will have donation. We know that
times are difficult, but
Where? Pitchcroft please give whatever
(Worcester Racecourse) you can afford and help
When? Sunday 13 keep this wonderful event
August, 10am-5pm going for years to come!

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