Family Monster Walk

The Family Monster Walk is coming to Coalville

You and your family are invited to join us at...the February half term Family Monster Walk. We challenge you to complete the monster trail!

What is the Monster Family Walk and what should we expect? 

This new event for 2020 aims to get more families active together outdoors in Coalville. The day will see the monsters, which were first created by local schools as part of last year's National Forest Timber festival, out and about in Coalville Forest Adventure Park for families to find as part of a monster hunt. There will also be a monster's village where local providers including our Health and Wellbeing team, the National Forest, and Everyone Active will be providing more information on how you can get active outdoors for free or indoors for low cost along with some other giveaways. As well as all of this if your kids (under 12 years old) can complete the monster hunt finding all 10 monsters that will be hiding, they will be entered into our monster prize draw and stand a chance of winning one of our great prizes. Also, each child finishing the monster hunt will be given a free goody bag which will include a certificate, water bottle, and piece of play equipment, gift vouchers and more. 

If you would like to download our poster to share, you can find it here: Family Monster Walk Poster (PDF Document, 5.68 Mb)

When and where is it? 

The Family Monster Walk will be held on Sunday 16th February 2020 between 10.30am-1.30pm. Families can arrive any time within this period to complete and enjoy their monster hunt. When you arrive just visit the control tent first, which will be located in the monster village, to collect your guide and then when you finish return your completed guide and prize draw slip to the same control tent to collect your children's (under 12 years) free goody bag and to be entered into the prize draw.

The event will be held at Coalville Forest Adventure park (Urban Forest Park Linden Way, Coalville, LE67 3JY) which is only 5-10 minutes on foot from the town centre off of Linden Way. The Forest Adventure Park has lots of pathed routes you can explore with loads of lovely wildlife to see and there is plenty of parking and an accessible toilet will be available during the event.

How do we sign-up?

To sign-up please follow this link and complete our online form here. Be quick as there are only 150 spaces available! 

If you have any problems or questions with our form or sign-up please contact Emily on: emily.rodbourne@nwleicestershire.gov.uk or 01530 454755. 

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The Monsters will be hiding all over the Coalville Forest adventure park so you and your family can take whatever route you like. Most of the paths that you will use around the site are well surfaced, with only small portions being slightly marshier (depending on the weather) underfoot. We advise that you wear footwear that is comfortable and has good grip, but we do not think you will require wellie boots, unless you prefer. As the event is in February, depending on the weather, you may need to wrap up warm and consider your footwear. 

How much does it cost?

Our Family Monster walk is FREE...and you get lots of freebies whilst you are there!

Who can take part and how long is it?

This event is for everyone and we encourage all ages and abilities to come along and join in. The kids could come on their scooters, or bring them in the push chair. The site is also accessible for wheelchair users, so please bring your whole family. 

Our Monster hunt will vary in length depending on the route you choose to take together, but we think you might walk approximately 1 mile in order to find all of the monsters. We expect that it will take you and your family between 30-45 minutes to complete, but this all depends. There is no rush though and as you go around take your time to see what the monsters are up to and explore the site so you can visit again next time. 

How do you get there? 

The event will be held at Coalville Forest Adventure park (Urban Forest Park Linden Way, Coalville, LE67 3JY) which is only 5-10 minutes on foot from the town centre off of Linden Way.

Will there be parking and toilets available?

The site has parking for approx. 40-50 cars and there will be an accessible toilet with baby changing available on the day. 

Why is there a Monster Walk this year?

We have introduced the Family Monster Walk this year as we would like to encourage more of our communities to, especially those that are not at the minute, take advantage of the great outdoor spaces and National Forest areas around Coalville to help them stay active and healthy. We would also really like to encourage our young people to start creating active habits now. We have all heard about the benefits of being physically active, with it found to lower your chances of suffering from long term conditions such as heart disease and type 2 diabetes, along with a lower risk of suffering from depression and dementia, as well as increased confidence and mood plus much more, but do you know how you and your family can be? Sometimes you might think that staying active can be expensive, especially for the whole family, but if you know how and where you could stay active outdoors for free its more achievable. So this event will give you some ideas and information, plus showing you a new site you may not have visited before, on where you could go for a walk, run, cycle or even workout. We also hope that this event may become part of a wider network of events, so help us to make it successful by signing up! 

We have some other questions, who can we ask?

If you have any questions please contact Emily: emily.rodbourne@nwleicestershire.gov.uk or 01530 454755