REVIVAL 2025 Programme

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Sunday 10th August 10th annual Get ready for our biggest and brightest Festival of Fun yet! From its humble, cold, wet and windy beginnings in August 2014, Mountsorrel REVIVAL has grown into the amazing community celebration we have today, with something for everyone.

Familiar Favourites: From fancy dress competitions to the sound of brass bands on The Green, traditional village competitions in the MMC, classic vehicles at The Waterside, climbing wall at SVLC, to donkey rides on the main field. What’s your favourite?

You told us the axe throwing and the clay pigeon zone that were new last year were a hit so we’ve brought them back. You love some noise, so the Punjab Bhangra Crew, Sambando, Steel Band, Quorn Ukuleles and lots of other bands, dancers and singers are back again.

All performances are FREE! Fresh Thrills: Strap in for Zorb Football on the all-weather pitch, or take a spin in our mini Land Rovers on the main field. There’s an area with activities for those with disabilities at the Leisure Centre - and don’t miss the Hurricane fly-past!

Epic Eats & Treats: Our food court is bigger than ever!

More seating, covered areas and new food outlets – YUM. Marketplace Marvels: More stalls than ever with crafts, local produce and community stalls throughout the event.

Parade & Kick-Off: Line the streets from 12 noon for the legendary fun run, classic vehicles and parade starting from Carsa Cars. With dancers, live bands, community groups and more, expect noise and laughter as they make their way to The Village Green.

WAVE  SHOUT  CHEER  LET’S MAKE SOME NOISE Your Guide to the Day: In this programme you will find a timetable of performances and activities; a centre page pull out event map; a ‘What’s Where’ with more details of all the stalls and locations, along with tips on parking, family facilities, quiet spaces, lost and found and more.

Let’s make 2025 the best REVIVAL yet!

Mountsorrel Community Team

Page No Welcome…………………………………………………… 3 Our Thanks……………………………………………….. 5 Parade & Fun Run route and advice………..… 7 Event photography, Lost child & property….. 7 All Day Events…………………………………………… 9 Activities for disabled at SVLC…………………… 15 What’s Where……………………………………..…… 16 & 17 Centre pages pullout REVIVAL Event Map………………………..………… 18 & 19 Entertainment Schedule…………………………… 20 & 21 Articles Tarmac History of Fairs & Galas in M’s 10 Years of REVIVAL 10 years with the MCT In Memory of Barry Utteridge Mountsorrel Library We need your feedback Alpine House Surgery Mountsorrel Heritage Group

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Our Sponsors Adverts Adept Electrical 35 Carsa Cars 6 & 11 Elegance Beauty 2 HS Footcare 36 Mortgage Advice Bureau 8 Mountsorrel Parish Council 8 Public & Plant 6 R Elliott Building Services 6 Sutton Land Developments 6 Stonehurst Farm 10 Tarmac 13 The Waterside Inn 12 Wilfred Pinsent & Grandson 6 Wilson Fink adverts from those who Also includes help with REVIVAL or have a paid advert to help fund this FREE programme

HURRICANE FLYPAST Many thanks to the RAF Battle of Britain Memorial Flight (BBMF).

Every year we apply to BBMF for a fly-past for REVIVAL. It’s always a bit of a long shot, but a real treat when we get something.

We are delighted to get a HURRICANE for 2025!

Watch the skies over The Memorial (Cricket) Field at 3.41pm when the Hurricane is scheduled to make an appearance. We’ll update you with any changes on our Facebook page.

NO DRONES TO BE FLOWN OVER REVIVAL SITE

In honour of the HURRICANE fly-past and it being our 10th REVIVAL, we have hidden 14 Hurricane aircraft around this programme. Can you find them?

Mountsorrel REVIVAL is more than an event, it’s a celebration of our community coming together to create something truly special. Run entirely by volunteers, REVIVAL is not only a fabulous day for all the family, but also raises thousands each year to support local charities, clubs, community groups, and future events.

Please join us in saying a heartfelt THANK YOU to the incredible individuals and organisations who make it all possible. 🌟 Our Sponsors : Your generosity fuels the festival and helps it thrive:  Mountsorrel Parish Council : including use of the Library, MMC and other areas  Tarmac  Mortgage Advice Bureau  Carsa Cars  Elegance Beauty  HS Footcare  Adept Electrical  Wilson Fink  Wilfred Pinsent & Grandson  Public and Plant  R Elliott Building Services  Stonehurst Farm  Sutton Land Developments  Waterside Inn  Mick George Skip Hire 👏 Our Volunteers : To our army of dedicated volunteers — you are the backbone of REVIVAL. Whether you’re ensuring safety, keeping the site spotless, setting up and packing down, managing stalls, or stewarding car parks, we thank you and we couldn’t do it without you.

 With Special Thanks to: Soar Valley Leisure Centre :use of their car park for stalls, all weather pitch for zorbs and hosting activities for disabled visitors.

Mountsorrel Working Men’s Club for use of venue, parking and providing fantastic entertainment.

Scouts, Boys’ Brigade, Brownies, and PSFA : managing resources on our behalf.

Mountsorrel Juniors Football Club : organising the fun-filled Fun Run. Michael Clayton (MAC 1 Electrical) : free electrical work.

Leicestershire Fire & Rescue: essential first aid cover.

Anthony Marvin : DJ REVIVAL soundtrack and Lost Children point.

Mewies Hair Salon, Top Gear, Skin Science & Aesthetics Clinic and all the businesses at The Chapel for sharing their parking facilities.

Mesothelioma UK : use of offices for our monthly MCT meetings.

Police and Emergency Services : keeping us all safe and secure.

Coop Mountsorrel: For volunteers and contribution of volunteer rewards.

Local Businesses who allow access to their toilets and provide free water refills.

Thank YOU! Thanks to everyone who has joined in so enthusiastically, from being in the parade, to wearing fancy dress to entering a competition and more.

NEW FOR 2025 find us on the main field

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www.carsa.co.uk

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Age guideline 4 to 10 years size dependent

PARADE & FUN RUN 🏁 Parade & Fun Run Route The Revival Parade and Fun Run will begin at 12 noon from CARSA Cars, near Bond Lane, and proceed up the road to the Mountsorrel Memorial Centre (MMC). From there, it turns right at the roundabout, following the road up The Green, where participants and vehicles will disperse.

For Your Safety To ensure everyone enjoys the day safely: 🚧 The route will be closed to traffic during the parade and fun run, reopening following the parade. The Green will remain closed. 🚶 Please stay on the pavements and avoid stepping onto the road. 🚫 Do not join the parade once it has begun  Our friendly Marshals will be stationed along the route in high-viz jackets. Please follow any guidance they give.

Many visitors love to capture the spirit of REVIVAL and we love to share photos on our social media channels.

We have our own official event photographers on hand to help preserve those special moments. They’ll be wearing high-visibility jackets with the MCT logo.

All our photographers follow the MCT Photographic Policy, which ensures respectful and appropriate use of images.

Our MCT Photographic Policy is available at the-mct.co.uk/photographic-policy

SMILE! YOU’RE AT REVIVAL!

The LOST CHILD POINT is located by the DJ stand near the Cricket Pavilion on the main field. Children will be safely cared for by Anthony Marvin, our Youth & Community Officer.

LOST PROPERTY items will be held at the Mountsorrel Memorial Centre (MMC) for safe keeping and collection.

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FREE & ALL DAY EVENTS Explore the magic of REVIVAL - all of this is FREE 

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Fun Run and Parade – a highlight of the day starting with Mountsorrel Juniors fun run followed by vintage vehicles and then the noise, colour and excitement of our parade. Starts from Carsa Cars at 12 noon.

Village competitions – all entries on display in the upstairs of the MMC Inclusive Sports at SVLC for people with disabilities Model Railway upstairs in the MMC Fancy dress competition on The Green straight after the parade – why not join in?

Music and dancing? You’re in for a treat with two Brass bands, Quorn Ukuleles, Sambanda marching drums, Steel drums, Morris Dancers, Punjab Bhangra Crew, Burlesque Dancers, Jessica School of Dance, Sing it Happy Choir and other singers & music around the site Children’s entertainers galore with Mr Tumble tribute, magicians, I’m not Houdini and puppet shows Vehicles of Interest to see at The Waterside Tarmac Simulator on their stand in main field Emergency Services Display - Little Lane Car Park Barking Mad Dog Show which is always great fun.

Birds of Prey Hurricane fly-past 3.41pm on the main field

If all this is too much we have a Quiet Space in the Library, or enjoy the quiet and shade of the beautiful Castle Gardens as our dedicated Picnic spot.

That’s just the free stuff, but there’s so much more 

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Food Court area on the main field is improved with covered seating and more stands – there’s also more food and drink stalls dotted about, not forgetting all our fantastic local bars and cafes Stalls, stalls and more stalls all around the site with great local produce and products Attractions & activities – too many to mention!

Donkey rides, climbing wall, archery, laser quest, axe throwing, mini Land Rover rides, zorb football, face painting, along with rides galore and much more.

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About Us Mesothelioma is a rare, aggressive cancer caused by asbestos exposure. Mesothelioma UK is the national charity for anyone affected by mesothelioma. Our HQ is in Mountsorrel.

We exist to support people with mesothelioma to live better and live longer and to prevent mesothelioma happening to future generations. We work closely with partner organisations to raise awareness of asbestos and to shine a light on the devastating impact of mesothelioma.

Our Charitable Activity The focus of our charitable activity is providing access to specialist Clinical Nurse Specialists in hospitals nationwide who can:  Provide specialist expertise and advice  Access to clinical trials  Increase the number of patients able to access specialist treatments  Improved management of symptoms and quality of life  Help with benefits, compensation claims, and clinical trials  Better symptom management and fewer unplanned admissions  A stronger patient voice driving research, treatment, and policy If you need information, a listening ear, or practical help, we’re just a call or click away.  0800 169 2409 www.mesothelioma.uk.com info@mesothelioma.uk.com Mesothelioma UK Charitable Incorporated Organisation is a registered charity in England & Wales (1177039)

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The Team welcome you to our cozy restaurant and large family garden in a stunning canal and riverside location.

Cask ales and delicious freshly prepared food.

Come and see us on Revival day - stalls, music, bouncy castle, classic cars and more.

0116 230 2758 www.watersidemountsorrel.co.uk

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Additional limited disabled parking On Memorial Centre Car Park

What’s Where? Stalls & Attractions

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ENTERTAINMENT SCHEDULE VILLAGE GREEN 11:00 Leicestershire Coop Brass Band 11:30 Quorn Ukulele Orchestra 12:45 Fancy Dress Competition 13:15

Leicestershire Coop Brass Band

14:00 Quorn Ukulele Orchestra 14:15

Graham Lloyd Award

14:30 Mountsorrel in Bloom Awards 14:30 Leicestershire Coop Brass Band 15:30 Quorn Ukulele Orchestra

THE BUTTERMARKET 11:30 – 12:00 12:45

13:30 – 14:15

Kay Moorcroft Steel Band

Kay Moorcroft

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Steel Band

15:30

Kay Moorcroft

WORKING MEN’S CLUB 12:30 DJ Woodie 13:45 Burlesque 14:30 DJ Woodie 15:15 Burlesque 16:00 DJ Woodie

MEMORIAL MAIN FIELD All day Simulator Ride – Tarmac Stand 11:00 Barking Mad Dog Show 13:15 Jessica School of Dance 13:45 Sambando 14:15

Jessica School of Dance

14:45 Punjab Bhangra Crew

15:30 Sambando

PEACE GARDEN

(Gazebo by the River)

11.30, 13.15 & 14:45 Sing it Happy Choir

15:41 Hurricane Fly Past Tunes all day from DJ Radio 1860

THE WATERSIDE 13:30 – 14.15 Ocean Club 14:45 – 15:30 Ocean Club 16:30 – 17:30 Take That Tribute 18:00 – 20:00 DJ Tom Brunskill

MEMORIAL CENTRE (MMC) Upstairs Model Railway Village Competition entries on display 11:00 The Great Adamos (magician)

CRICKET PAVILION

(bar is not open in pavilion)

Mr Tumble & Friends 13:30 Mr Tumble 14:00 Meet Duggee 14:30 Mr Tribute 15:00 Meet Bingy

13:30 Charming Chilean Magician Outside

14:00 Morris Dancers 14:30 I’m not Houdini (magic show) Bar & café open all day

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A Brief History of Fairs and Galas in Mountsorrel

by Mountsorrel Heritage Team Is it August already?

Then it must be time for Mountsorrel REVIVAL!!!

REVIVAL is the successor to the MOUNTSORREL FAIR 1914 Fund Raising Parade authorised by King Edward I in for LRI beds 1982 1984 1292 and held in June (and Mountsorrel Gala Programmes After World War 2 there were later in July).

Sadly, the GALA ceased due to The Fair was an eight-day event carnivals and galas to raise money for various charities and the amount of work needed to (Mountsorrel Community local groups and mark events be undertaken by a small (and Team, are you up for that?). in some cases, aging) such as the Queen’s Silver It ran successfully until the Committee.

Jubilee.

1870s when the Lord of the Manor abolished it as celebrations had become a bit over exuberant for Victorian sensibilities. Despite that the Fair continued in a shortened form until the Great War. Mid 1930s Gala Queen and attendants

June 1913 Fancy Dress

The main event throughout the Today we are all able to enjoy 1970s/90s was the MOUNTSORREL GALA that ran REVIVAL. Starting in 2014, we very successfully organised by are now set to enjoy the 10th the village Sports and Leisure annual Mountsorrel REVIVAL – sadly we lost 2 years to Covid Association. restrictions.

Prior to the Great War the Fair was joined at Whitsuntide by fund-raising parades to raise money for beds at The Leicester Royal Infirmary. These continued through that war and into the 1940s only ceasing 1970s Gala when the NHS was formed.

Anyone know the exact year?

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c1986 Runners ready for Road Race Recognise anyone?

Through the efforts of the Mountsorrel Community Team and their volunteers REVIVAL is a great successor to all that’s gone before.

Celebrating the 10th Mountsorrel REVIVAL ‘An old fashioned Festival of Fun’ This year we are celebrating the 10th Mountsorrel REVIVAL. Mountsorrel REVIVAL has come a long way since founder Ian Shonk first had the idea that became a reality on Sunday 12th August 2014. Since then it has become an annual event in the Mountsorrel calendar (except 2020 & 2021 and due to Covid restrictions).

From Storms to Sunshine The weather could not have been worse for the first REVIVAL. Newspapers reported Hurricane Bertha as ‘lashing winds and fierce rain batter Britain’. Ian remembers the weather as ‘Biblical! The street was like a river’. Incredibly stalls were still set up. Ian tells how few braved the storms, until at 2.30pm the rain stopped with a dramatic line in the sky of black clouds one side and clear blue sky the other. As the line moved, it was as if everyone left their homes at the same time and descended on REVIVAL. Since then the weather has been kinder, although many will still remember August 2022 when temperatures reached over 30 deg. It also lead to the drama of the fire up on ‘the hills’ by the War Memorial, thankfully there was no long term damage.

2014 Ian Shonk with granddaughter Evie Grace

2017 Hought Family Fancy Dress Winners

Mountsorrel Community Team (MCT) The Mountsorrel Community Team (MCT) formed in 2015 to run REVIVAL. Since then it has evolved, running, helping and being a part of many village events and celebrations including The annual Village Pancake Races, the Remembrance Parade, firework displays, Christmas light switch on and more.

Soap Boxes and Parades

Founding members Ross Tomlyn & Sandra Utteridge celebrate 10 years

An original highlight of REVIVAL was the soap box races ran by Ian Shonk. Ian went on to Soap Box fame when he headed a team who won the 2017 Red Bull Soap Box Challenge. With dwindling participation other activities now fill the space left by the soap boxes.

The first REVIVAL parade was 2016, with the time being dictated by bus timetables to fit between services, originally running in the opposite direction from The Green ending at Stonehurst Farm. The parade is a true reflection of everything REVIVAL is about. Music, dancing, noise, laughter, dressing up and most importantly the coming together of our fabulous Mountsorrel Community.

Here’s to the next Ten Years!

As we celebrate this milestone, we thank everyone who’s weathered storms, smiled in the sunshine, and brings Mountsorrel REVIVAL to life each year. Grab your bunting, don your best festival gear, and join us for another year of family fun-filled memories!

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In Memory Barry Utteridge 1946 - 2024 Barry Utteridge was a much loved member of our Mountsorrel Community Team.

Alongside his wife Sandra, Barry was a founding member when the team was established 10 years ago. He served as Treasurer until 2020.

Barry and Sandra were also part of the Mountsorrel Sports Association who organised Mountsorrel Gala from 1985 to 1992 - a highlight of the village calendar during this time.

A passionate educator, Barry enjoyed a long teaching career, remembered fondly by students as a favourite teacher. Since settling in Mountsorrel in 1974, he was deeply involved in village life. He coordinated collections for the Air Ambulance, played for Mountsorrel Cricket Club, was an organiser of the village charity fayre, and served as Treasurer for the Mountsorrel Scouts Group until 1992.

In May 2024 Barry received the Commendation Award from Mountsorrel Parish Council for his service to the Mountsorrel community. Barry was unable to receive the award, but his son Mark received it on his behalf – a proud moment for all the family. As a lasting tribute Barry’s name is displayed on the Commendation Boards in the Parish Rooms.

QUIET ZONE

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Every year we try to improve To do this we need your feedback What was good? What worked well? What needs to improve?

What new things you would like to see?

PLEASE COMPLETE OUR VISITOR SURVEY

This event has been supported by the PPL PRS charity and community discount scheme which licenses the use of copyright music across the UK, giving businesses and organisations the permission they need to play the music they want.

More information about PPL PRS pplprs.co.uk 0800 0156259

Mountsorrel based, no stress, walking group.

Walks up to 5 miles around the Charnwood area - usually ending with a social drink at a pub

A friendly welcome to all!

Charnwoodwalkinggroup.co.uk or follow us on Facebook

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Mountsorrel Heritage Group This year the Group marks its 20th anniversary and is pleased to be a part of Mountsorrel REVIVAL once again.

On REVIVAL day the Museum will be open with our Geopark display that includes a floor map and information on the geology of the Charnwood Forest.

There will also be items relevant to past Galas and Parades preceding REVIVAL over the years, including the road race trophy. The castle model will be on show too along with a hands-on display of archaeology test pit finds. As usual we will be running our “wine or water” stall and will be selling plants too.

Our members will be in the museum and on the stalls. Come and talk to us and find out more about the Group, the Museum and our schedule of talks.

You might even want to join!

You can keep up with our village history by following us on Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/mountsorrelarchive

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