World Champion boxer Enzo Maccarinelli and Olympic athlete Kriss Akabusi will be attending this year’s Festival of Youth Sport where hundreds of school children will enjoy an afternoon of fun sporting activities.
The event, supported by Airbus and Sport Wales*, will be held at Deeside College on Thursday, 29 April.
It is the largest sport and physical activity festival for schools in the county.
2009 Britain’s Got Talent semi finalist, dancer Aidan Davis, will also be performing.
The festival will host ten events – basketball, cheerleading, street dance, tri golf, mountain biking, girls tag rugby, BMX, cricket, water polo and futsal. It is the first year that cricket, water polo and BMX have featured in the festival.
Street dance proved very popular last year with over 700 children taking part. As a result there will be three separate street dance events for different age groups, with the main festival hosting the Key Stage 1 age group.
Schools receive free coaching for the events they are entering in the run up to the festival.
Organisers Sport Flintshire are working to ensure many of the activities continue after the festival has finished, encouraging children to go on with their selected sport.
Julie Rice-Williams, Sport Flintshire, said: “This is an amazing opportunity for Flintshire children to participate in a range of activities which are not only great fun but help keep them fit and active too.”
Paul McKinlay, Airbus Broughton Senior Manager and Chairman of Airbus FC, said: “Thanks to Airbus’ continued involvement in the Festival of Youth Sport it’s been great to be able to see the festival grow in popularity each year. Airbus believes strongly in supporting its local communities. As Chairman of Airbus Football club I’m proud to see members of the team coaching and exciting children about sports, which will hopefully encourage them to continue with this in the future.”
Sport Wales Member, Hywel Meredydd, said:
“Sport Wales is delighted to once again support the Festival of Youth Sport. This excellent event compliments our vision and aspiration to get every child in Wales hooked on sport for life by encouraging huge numbers of local youngsters, of all abilities, to take part in a variety of sports.”
