Town Trails to mark Moon Rocket Launch and Football World Cup
Visitors, residents and businesses in Bury St Edmunds town centre will be celebrating both the Artemis II Moon Rocket Mission and football’s World Cup this year with two free activity trails. In each of the trails, participants will have a chance to win a variety of prizes.
The first trail will be astronomy themed to celebrate the Artemis II mission, currently scheduled to launch this spring. Town centre businesses are invited to get involved with the trails by displaying a poster and an item (which will be supplied by the organisers) in their shop window, which participants then seek out and record on the official entry form for the competition. The trails are being co-ordinated by Our Bury St Edmunds BID (Business Improvement District).
Chief Executive of Our Bury St Edmunds BID Mark Cordell said: “It’s incredible to think that we did our first trail in 2011 and they just go from strength to strength – last year we had the best take-up ever of businesses wanting to be part of our trails and I hope even more will sign up this year.
“With the interest in both the first crewed mission to the moon in more than 50 years and the World Cup – where we are also commemorating the fact that it is the 60th anniversary of that historic 1966 win – this is the perfect family activity. It’s an opportunity to visit different parts of the town centre and can be done over a number of days.”
Both trails will run over a number of weeks and each will also include one of the town centre’s major annual events. The astronomy-themed trail supported by the Bury St Edmunds Astronomy Association will run from the end of March to the end of May. Visitors to the Our Bury St Edmunds Spring Fayre on May 24 and 25 will be able to visit astronomy workshops for further inspiration. The World Cup trail will run through the school summer holidays including during the Our Bury St Edmunds Food & Drink Festival over the August Bank Holiday weekend.
There is still time for BID member businesses to register their interest in featuring on one or both of the trails and those interested in doing so should contact the Our Bury St Edmunds BID team in the usual way.
