We welcome world class events and attractions to the show each year including 6 times FITASC Sporting World Champion, European Champion and English Open Champion John Bidwell, who will be performing his off the hip shooting demonstration and new for 2011 Savage Skills the UK’s leading freestyle mountain bike stunt team perform their interactive and jaw dropping ‘Ultimate Air Show’ display. They will also be running an experience area where visitors can ‘have a go’ on bikes suitable for all ages.
We also welcome world famous horse behaviourist Richard Maxwell to the main arena, he will be demonstrating with some of his own horses and ponies with his 11year old son William as well as working on a few problematic horses brought to the show by members of the public. Richard mixes both traditional and alternative methods of horsemanship inspired by Monty Roberts who he spent time with in the Household Cavalry, to tackle the horse’s issues and strengthen the bond between owner and horse.
Other attractions include Dock Dogs. Watch dogs of all shapes and sizes leap into a large pool of water and see who gets the record jump. Sheep Dog & Duck Displays, the ‘Dog & Ferret’ arena with Simon Whitehead, West Norfolk Hunt Hound Parade, the hilarious Sheep Show, fishing demonstrations, a forestry arena and be amazed by the MBS Mountain Boarding team, as they perform spins and flip tricks over a Land Rover, dropping in off the trailer from a height of 20ft!
Hunstanton Watersports will be running Powerkiting taster session courses at the show this year. Powerkiting is an exhilarating, exciting up and coming sport. Powerkiting is the back bone of any kite related sport; the skills you need for powerkiting are the exact skills you need to progress onto kite landboarding, bugging or even kitesurfing.
We aim to offer something for everyone with fashion & beauty workshops by John Lewis, Norwich. Plenty of children’s entertainment including walk on water balls, an animal area, slides, face painting, donkey rides, a carousel and the BeWILDerwood stand which is new for 2011. The award winning tree house Adventure Park will be attending, and getting energetic and creative by hosting a delightful array of activities that the Boggles and Twiggles would be proud of.
There are over 250 shopping stands with a great selection of products from Gunmakers, country clothing stands, fishing tackle, home wares and jewellery, a craft hall and a mouth watering food hall where you can sample some fantastic local produce. The ‘Game Fair Country Kitchen’ cookery theatre has a fantastic variety of cookery workshops and demonstrations taking place over the weekend from a great selection of local chefs, including game & rabbit cooking, grow your own vegetables master class with Home Grown Revolution and writer Keith Reeves plus performances from celebrity chefs, Chris Coubrough, Franck Pontais and TV Presenter Alan Coxon.
Get involved and ‘have a go’ at a range of country activities from clay shooting with John Bidwell’s High Lodge instructors or enter the 40-bird re-entry shooting competition. Fly fishing with the Salmon and Trout Association, ferret racing and archery to mountain boarding, mountain biking and even a free Treasure Trail around the show, just solve the clues to win some great prizes. Take a helicopter pleasure flight over the showground, try the air rifle range, hold an owl or take a ride in a Landrover on the off road 4×4 course. New for 2011 we have Hunstanton Watersports running Powerkiting taster sessions at the show where you can have a go. Powerkiting is an exhilarating, exciting up and coming sport.
Norfolk Poultry Club will be attending the show for the first time with their exhibition of purebred poultry, waterfowl & eggs; this will include large fowl and bantams, male and female including Brahmas, Silkies, Wyandottes, Belgian bantams and various Rare Breeds. In addition they will also have club members available to talk to the public about poultry keeping and will run talks on backyard poultry keeping, using birds from the exhibition to demonstrate the different characteristics and requirements.
Otters will be returning with Daphne Neville to the Game Fair this year! They have been brought up to travel around Britain and promote clean rivers and waterways. Otters are an important indicator of river health. They regularly appear on TV Programmes such as Blue Peter and the Alan Titchmarsh Show.
Norwich City Community Sports Foundation is pleased to announce that we will be attending this year’s East Anglian Game & Country fair. Norwich City Community Sports Foundation (Formerly Football in the Community) is a charity that helps people achieve their goals by delivering quality, innovative services through football and sport. They will have a stand at this year’s event, which will consist of our state of the art Inflatable Speed Kick Machine. This machine monitors in mph how fast or slow you can kick the ball – so here’s the challenge can you beat our CSF coaches and win a prize? Only £1 for 5 shots.
The Time Travellers will be attending this year’s show. They are also pleased to announce that on Sunday 17th April they will have Local Actor Martin Ballantyne with them. He has appeared in 3 Harry Potter Films, Batman the Dark Knight, as well as Stephen Fry’s successful ITV series “Kingdom”, so come along and meet him on their stand a must for any Dr Who Fan!
We welcome dogs on leads and there is plenty for them to do also! Mid Norfolk Gun Dog Club will be running the Gun Dog Scurry competitions and ‘have a go’ over the weekend. Enter your canine friend into the Dog Agility and Jumping competitions and ‘have a go’ arenas, the Pet Dog Show or even the popular Terrier & Lurcher Show which take place on Sunday at 11am, which will be a qualifier for all major championships as well as the East Anglian Championship. A dog crèche is also available at the show run by Samsalin Dog Rescue so if you need to leave you dog somewhere safe for a couple of hours you can.
