Launching Stranraer’s Wheels, Water and Well-being Festival 2025!
Agnew and Stair Park 7-8th of June.
We were delighted to welcome Janet Jones, Project Developer at Creative Stranraer, (www.creativestranraer.com) into school this week, talking about an exciting new venture – Stranraer’s Wheels, Water and Wellbeing Festival, coming to our shores on the weekend of June 7-8th 2025! This festival is building on the brief 3-hour cycling festival last June, where many children and adults requested the festival to become every year.
There are lots of activities on offer in our wee town, to name a few; the skate park at Stair Park, rowing and water sports on Loch Ryan and the Kirkpatrick Coast to Coast bike trail. This brand-new bike trail starts at the bike sculpture at the end of the pier, connecting Stranraer on the west coast, to Eyemouth on the East coast. Every Saturday, Parkrun is held in Agnew Park when folks of all ages walk, jog and run their way around the 5k course.
Janet explained that this new festival is looking to bring lots of these activities – and more- together in one fabulous weekend to be enjoyed by locals and visitors alike!
After hearing the latest health data, that by 2050, over 50% of the adult population and a third of children, will be overweight or obese, Janet is more passionate than ever to encourage the benefits of active travel, health and wellbeing.
In the run up to the festival, there are three exciting projects for the schools in Stranraer and the Rhins to get involved in. The first creative project is to design an image that represents, wheels – bikes, scooters, rollerblades or any kind of wheels people get around on. It can also be anything to do with activities on the water or an image of wellbeing. These images will be completed by the 27th of March and delivered to the Creative Stranraer Hub by the 28th of March at the latest to be entered into a competition. The images will be on exhibition at the Creative Stranraer Hub during May at the top of King Street. AND both the children and teachers cannot wait to try some introductory Qigong next term from the world-renowned expert, Mark Pogson, who will be offering sessions at the festival too! The festival will have something for everyone, of all generations.
In May, the children, and parents or their family members, can take part in completing an Activity Diary, logging all the active fun, places visited, and with who, this can then be entered into a prize draw at the festival.
Watch this space for more exciting details…