The final Worcester Festival Easter fundraiser is taking place this Saturday in Friary Walk (formally Crowngate) from 11am -3pm and is promised to be full of fun and egg-citing activities for all the family to enjoy.
The Worcester Festival takes place in August every year and provides families with 17 days of events and activities, many of which are free to participants. The Festival also involve a large number of tourist organisations across the City including Worcester Cathedral, Worcester City Art Gallery and Museum, Royal Porcelain Works, Tudor House Museum and The Commandery.
This year the Festival saw a sizable cut in its funding but is determined to continue to provide events this summer, to do this they have chosen to host fundraisers outside of the Festival. A spokesperson said: “We have had great success with our two fundraisers already this year and this Saturday provides a brilliant opportunity for us to brighten up the Easter Holidays while raising some funds for the main Festival in the Summer.”
Here’s all the wonderful things you’ll find if you hop on down to the POD in Friary Walk this Saturday!
Worcester’s favourite face painters, Funky Faces will be joining the fun providing children with free beautiful face painting! You can be the Easter bunny, Spiderman, a Unicorn or a Dinosaur there’s no end to their talents and no upper age limit on who can join in the fun!
Another free family activity is a decorate your own biscuit station. Pick from a bunny, flower, butterfly or egg-shaped homemade biscuit and let your creativity flow with icing, sprinkles and chocolates. The session doesn’t require pre-booking but there is a limited number of biscuits available for the day.
Back by popular demand the Worcester Festival team have been busy gathering prizes for their infamous tombola! Just £1 for four tickets and you could win a lovely book, a bottle of wine, a mug, a tin of custard, or some jelly, what’s not to love!
You will also find several Summer fete style games at the fundraiser including guess how many chocolate eggs in the jar, guess the name of the giant Dinosaur, hook a duck, Easter themed darts and much more. With games starting from just 50p and both cash and card accepted its easy to try and win yourself a special prize!
This year the Worcester Festival are running a Grand Raffle. Tickets are £1 each and there is a host of fantastic prizes up for grabs. The first prize is £100 in ArrangeMYEscape holiday vouchers, a £50 St Peters Garden Centre voucher and afternoon tea for 2 at The Potting Shed. A full list of prizes can be found at worcesterfestival.co.uk/grand-raffle. You can purchase a ticket or books of tickets from the fundraiser, or you can buy a book of tickets from the Festival website.
The Festival Spokesperson commented: “It’s important to us that our fundraisers are just like the events we host in the Festival, they are filled with fun for everyone and include some activities that are free so that anyone can join in with us and some events that cost money so contribute to our fundraising efforts. We have the perfect blend of that in this fundraiser, so if you are celebrating Easter on a budget this year please come and say hello and join in the fun! We want to see as many of you as possible, turning into the Easter bunny, eating your biscuit artwork and maybe going home with a prize or two off our tombola!”
For more information, visit worcesterfestival.co.uk