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The dinosaurs return to Lancaster city centre as Dino Fest returns with more dinosaurs, Dino Workshops, a mobile museum, Dino Trail, school workshops and more. Are you ready for this ROARsome event?
Dino Fest is an established award winning annual event in Lancaster city centre. Each summer we fill the city centre with dinosaurs and bring smiles to thousands of visitors young and old. The event brings local history to life as Lancaster was the home of Sir Richard Owen - the man who invented the word Dinosaur. This year, with your help, the event will expand over two weeks with free half day dinosaurs workshops leading up to the main Dino Fest weekend in July. Pupils from ten local primary schools will each spend half a day in the city centre participating in a variety of fun and educational activities to learn about dinosaurs and the connection with Lancaster. Dino Fest weekend on 8/9 July will see the city come alive with more dinosaurs than ever before. The event will also include Dino Workshops, a mobile museum, fossil handling, talks from dinosaur experts, a city centre dinosaur trail, face painting and more. Best of all, almost everything will be FREE to take part.
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Why it's a great idea:
This award winning event will return with more dinosaurs than ever before. Dino Fest reliably draws over 5,000 people into Lancaster City Centre for two action packed days of free family fun. The day will have something for everyone with a balance between entertainment and education. Ten local Primary schools will receive free half day dinosaur workshops including coach travel to learn about dinosaurs and our links with Richard Owen. They will take a walking tour discovering sites linked to Richard Owen, explore the City Museum and hunt for dinosaurs hidden in the windows of businesses. The event will boost city centre footfall by over 20% throughout the weekend bringing additional trade to help support local businesses. Visitors will also be encouraged to explore the city centre discovering new businesses as they go. The event is one of the flagship annual events which put Lancaster on the map and encourage visitors from outside the immediate area giving the city a real boost.
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Dino Fest is award winning - the 2022 event was part of a portfolio of events which won the 'Toursim & Visitor Attraction' award at the Bay Business Excellence Awards. Dino Fest is also a finalist in the 2022 Lancashire Tourism Awards in the 'Small Event of The Year' category for events of up to 15,000 people. The overall winner of this award will be announced in February. Finally, Dino Fest contibuted to Lancaster's nomination in the 'Rising Star' category of the Visa Let's Celebrate Towns Awards as part of a summer long events programme. Results of these awards will be announced at a ceremony in the Palace of Westminster in March. With your support, we can make sure that the event not only retains these high standards but is even bigger and better for 2023.
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Thank you to everyone who has helped us reach the fantastic milestone of 30 pledges - proof of how much the local community value Dino Fest. Please help spread the work to encourage others to chip in just a few pounds. Crowdfund Lancashire will be considering which projects to support during the week ending 17th March - the more pledges in place by then, the greater our chances of securing their support.
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How will the money be spent?Total £33,897
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VolunteerLancaster BID is a not for profit company with a remit to make Lancaster city centre a more attractive place to visit, live, work and do business.
April 2023 marks our 10th anniversary of high quality promotion of Lancaster city centre. One of our biggest priorities is to organise flagship free public events in Lancaster city centre to draw more people into the city and make sure they want to come back.
Our events make use of public space and are accessible to everyone to make sure the whole local community can benefit. We also carry out extensive marketing to promote the city and encourage visitors from further afield.
Lancaster BID is led by a volunteer management board with projects delivered by a small staff team of just one full time and two part time staff. We keep our overheads to a minimum to maximise investment in the city centre. As a not-for-profit company, every penny we receive goes back into the city centre to benefit the whole local community.
We encourage people to shop local and use local suppliers wherever possible to maximise investment back into the local economy.
We are award winning for our events. In 2022, we won the 'Tourism & Visitor Attraction' Award at the Bay Business Excellence Awards, are a finalist in the Small Event of the Year category of the Lancashire Tourism Awards (winner announced in February) and have been nominated in the Rising Star category of the Visa Let's Celebrate Towns Awards (winner announced in March). With your support, we will continue to make our events even bigger and better for 2023.
We live up to our strapline to Love Local, Love Lancaster!
Project Owner: Lancaster BID The Project Owner takes legal responsibility for receiving and spending the funds raised and ensuring the project is delivered.
