As well as running a very enjoyable free 23rd Birthday Party in May, for more than 400 children, and running successful days of care and activities for SCOPE, our main out-of-schools events this year were

Children's Festivals

During the summer of 2004 we ran our 5th Bristol Children's Festival and our 23rd Glastonbury Children's Festival.

They were both tremendously successful and were hugely enjoyed by about 10,000 people. On each Children's Festival day there are around 20 performances from children's theatre companies, clowns, puppeteers, story-tellers, jugglers etc.

There is a large Craft Marquee where children can make hats, masks and costumes for each day's Grand Parade.
There are workshops where children can make juggling balls that they can take home, and where they can learn juggling and other circus skills.
There is a daily Talent Show where children can can perform a favourite "party piece" or a new skill they have learnt at the Festival, with each participant receiving a Certificate of Merit and a tiny prize.
There is a clay workshop, a giant inflatable slide, giant animals to dance with, inflatables to bounce on, large-scale games and much, much more on offer.

The Children's Festivals provide wonderful, good value, exciting days out for children and families, while raising much-needed money which helps fund Children's World's special needs workshops.

Eventually we would like to take the Children's Festivals to London, where we feel they would be as huge a success as they are here in the West Country. We would like to thank the large numbers of volunteers who help us run the Children's Festivals, Georgian Portable Sanitation Ltd., and also the Central Somerset Gazette and the Bristol Evening Post, without whose free advertising help we simply could not manage.

Next Children's Festival Dates

Bristol Children's Festival 29 July-1 August 2005
Glastonbury Children's Festival 5-8 August 2005