With Summer just round the corner, on July 4 and 5, the worlds biggest charity beach festival is set to take place once again.
Paddle Round The Pier is an annual event that celebrates all things to do with beach sports and lifestyle. The free event has previously seen visitor numbers of over 50,000 gather on the beaches of Brighton and Hove throughout the weekend!
Run by volunteers since 1996, the award-winning event raises thousands of pounds for charity each year. The charities that have been chosen as the beneficiaries for Paddle Round The Pier 2015 are The RNLI, Rockinghorse and Brighton Kids Surf Life Saving Club.
The title event; Paddle Round The Pier itself takes place on the Sunday (July 5). This event sees a water-borne-blanket of entrants taking whatever they can get to float (surfboards, kayaks, dinghies etc), and paddling around the wreckage of the old West Pier.
Paddle Something Unusual is the biggest crowd-pleaser, and sees teams expressing their creativity and paddling all manner of crazy craft around the pier! Previous years have seen everything from aeroplanes to cranes, from a bed to a shed – the only guidelines are to make it as ridiculous (yet safe) as possible, to raise lots of money and have a spectacularly good laugh doing so!
As well as the paddling events, visitors can enjoy the ‘Paddle Village’, with 80,000m² of exhibition, retail and entertainment space. Three music stages will feature up-and-coming acts, with The Ukulele Stage introducing some of the best 4-string-strumming from across the UK, and the extremely popular Kids entertainment stage.
Within the Paddle village is the Paddle Lecture Theatre, featuring 30-minute micro-lectures on oceanography, boat building, surfboard design and big wave riding amongst many other subjects. There will also be restaurants, bars, and lots of have-a-go sessions on land and sea for all to try.
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