Nailsea's skate festival postponed until autumn

The festival is a major event in the town's calendar and attracts skaters and boarders from across the area

Nailsea’s annual skate festival – which attracts competitors from across the Bristol area – has been postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The festival, which has become a major date in the skate community calendar was due to take at the skate park at Millennium Park on June 6.

Organisers of the event met earlier this month to discuss the festival and made the painful decision to postpone it to the autumn.

A spokesman for the festival said: “Unfortunately we had no choice but to postpone the event from its scheduled date of June 6.

“We realise this is a great disappointment for all those looking forward to it, but sadly after looking at all the possibilities had no choice.

“However, all at the meeting were keen to see whether we could reschedule the event when things settle down and that probably means in the autumn.”

The team is now planning other virtual events instead of the festival, including picture competitions and re-runs of some of the other skate festival video edits.

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There are also plans to stream pre-recorded and live imputs on the day the event was due to be held which can be followed via the Nailsea Skatepark Project, and Nailsea Skatefest and Activities Showcase Facebook pages.

A spring clean of the skate park is also planned with volunteers being sought to help.

The skate park remains closed due to the Government lockdown.

However some are continuing to flout the regulations.

The spokesman added; “Unfortunately the Skate Park is still officially closed, and to the huge percentage of users who are respecting that, thank you.

“To the one of two of you reading this who might be sneaking back on, we really would encourage you to avoid doing this, as its not helping the communities current great support of the park, as well as the fact that you run the risk of being fined as breaking the guidance legislation.

“We are all really missing it and once it is safe to use it again with revised guidelines, we will be the first to let you know.”

Anyone with questions or ideas on how to make June 6 a fun day remotely contact Phil Williams phil@christiansurfers.co.uk.