This event has now taken place Asda Active’s summer of family fun day arrived at Gloucester Park in fine sunshine and despite a few showers there was a great turnout. Plenty of sports on offer and even the Asda Super Foods For Healthy Kids van had a good stream of customers offering free chicken kebabs and banana smoothies.

Asda Active fitted in perfectly with all the other activities which included It’s A Knockout and athletics as well as the Games4Life tent and it was a free. Watch the video below…

If you’d like to know more about the sports at this event you can contact the sports providers at:

Football – Streetwise Soccer – 01204 557 676. Kevin Tasker will show you all the tricks in a sport where you get points for skills as well as goals. For information contact kevin@streetwisesoccer.co.uk who will give you details of street soccer in your area. See the game explained

Athletics – Fit for Sport run Ofsted Registered Kids Camps for children aged between 3-12 years and are a great way for your child to keep active, have fun, make friends, and take part in a wide range of sports and activities, all within a safe environment. SPECIAL OFFER! Book a Kids Camp this summer and quote “Asda Active” to receive an exclusive 20% discount. Don’t live near a Kids Camp? For a free Fitter Family Book containing hints and tips on how to get your family active and fit this summer, contact Fit for Sport at marketing@fitforsport.co.uk. See the guys in action at an Asda Active event here

Martial Arts – MSD Evolution Martial Arts Academy offer classes everyday in a friendly atmosphere which is ideal for beginners. It’s a great way to get fit and they offer a free 2 week trail period where anyone (including ladies) can come along and try it out. Free gloves when you join up.

Rugby – Ambitious Gloucester have the first professional university rugby league team and have a plan to build-on and recruit youngsters of all ages into the 13-man code. Interested? To contact the club

Cycling – Get Cycling are based in York and promote cycling, in all its varieties, for leisure, transport, health, happiness and the environment. We work for local authorities, health promotion services, regeneration agencies, businesses, schools, universities and the leisure industry.

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The event has now passed but you may want to sign up to the Asda Active Panel to join families across the country who are chatting to us about the big issues around health and activities in their local community.

The Chief Executive of Fields in Trust, Alison Moore-Gwyn was also at the event presenting the Lord Mayor of Gloucester with a preservation plaque and you can here from Alison.

Voting has now closed Congratulations to the Gloucester Athletics club who received most votes and received a community donation of £300. The team came along to pick up their cheque and also provided an afternoon of great participation to find Asda Gloucester’s fastest youngster.

Here a group from Gloucester Athletics Club including Director, Bob Purcell, receive a community donation from Asda Gloucester’s Community Life Champion, Jenny Mills.

Runners-up in the vote were Gloucester Futsal Revolution who received £200, and the Together In Matson Project who receive £100.

Over the summer we joined forces with the national charity Fields in Trust to help protect local parks and playing fields from development to ensure they’ll be there for future generations to enjoy.

It’s part of an initiative to mark the year of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee by safeguarding 2012 outdoor recreational spaces.

We staged most of our Asda Active fun sports events on these Queen Elizabeth II Fields sites, and recorded all the plaque handing over ceremonies that occurred to mark the sites now firmly protected.

One such event took place at Wellholme Park, Brighouse on Saturday 30th June, 2012 featuring Field In Trust’s Deputy Chief Executive, Don Earley, who presented a lovely plaque the size of a bin lid to councillor Christine Beale. You can see the ceremony video here.

You can also check to see if there’s a protected park near you by entering your postcode at the charity’s Queen Elizabeth II Fields Challenge website.