Take Part Take Pride

Sutton's Take Part, Take Pride Summer Festival celebrated its fourth year in 2009 with over 13,500 taking part in one way or another.

London Borough of Sutton has announced dates for 2010 – a week of activities and events will run from Mon 12 – Sun 18 July. The theme is try something new – whether that's by trying a sport, learning a language, volunteering, visiting a museum for the first time or getting together with different people in a new situation – you are invited to take inspiration and get involved!

Join the fun of Take Part, Take Pride by putting on an event or bringing your community group to the Sutton Town Centre marketplace to promote your activities and campaigns. London Borough of Sutton will be promoting all the activities on offer to the public, with printed programmes a month beforehand, press articles and a launch event.

If you would like to put on an event as part of Take Part, Take Pride and be a part of Sutton's summer festival, please complete the form

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All enquiries about Take Part, Take Pride should go to:

takepartakepride@sutton.gov.uk

020 8770 4391

We want your feedback!

We are now looking for your feedback. Did you attend an interesting event? Were you inspired by something you took part in? Could something have been done better? Please fill out this short survey and let us know what you thought. All feedback is greatly appreciated. If you have any questions please contact Julie Young on 020 8770 5243.

Do you have any events you would like to promote here?

If you attended an event and would like to highlight its success on this web page, please get in touch with Julie Young on 020 8770 5243

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The Oaks Park Dig

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Bus Thousands of people joined in activities across the borough this weekend for the finish of this year's Take Part Take Pride festival.

The action packed weekend of events kicked off with freerunning workshops and some amazing stunts. 15 year-old Barry He who heads up the South London Parkour Team gave free workshops to teach the basic movements of the sport on Sutton High Street.

Bettle Bottling There was also Beetle Bottling Championships enjoyed by children and their parents at Mayfield Lavender field on Saturday.

In other events the Sutton Ecology Centre celebrated 20 years of wildlife education with an old fashioned summer fete on Sunday.

Partners in Paint gave the public a chance to get creative alongside professional artists in the Civic underpass.

Local bands and singers including Spiral Youth Theatre, The Kicks and The Antidote performed on stage in Sutton on Saturday and Sunday. One of the highlights was the Shimmy Sisters, who gave a fantastically colourful display of belly dancing!

Dulsori Drummers

Partners in Paint

On Sunday, an exciting competition called 'Sutton Speaks' gave local people an opportunity to put forward ideas of how they would like the council to spend £2,000 in their area. After a lively public debate in the High Street the public chose a street party as the winning idea.