WANT TO get active? Then get ready for some fun and prepare to be inspired.

The Active York Sports Fair will be taking place in Parliament Street later this month, offering a vast range of activities for people to try.

Some 45 sport groups, including rowing and Kendo sword fighting, will give residents a taster of what they do on Saturday, May 23, from 10.30am to 4pm.

It is hoped the event will inspire people to take up new sports and past times and get more active.

Coun Christian Vassie, City of York Council’s executive member for leisure, culture and social inclusion, said: “I hope residents will take advantage of this opportunity to participate in a huge range of different activities.

“I think I will try flamenco and sword fighting.”

Needing little inspiration to get active are five members of staff from St George’s RC Primary School in York. Nicola Harper, Zoe Lightfoot-Loftus, Clare Smith, Madeleine Bone and Lorraine Bradshaw will all be striding out tomorrow as they take part in the 26 mile Playtex Moonwalk in London.

The power walk, which starts at midnight, will see participants raise money for Walk The Walk, an organisation that helps breast cancer charities.

The team as been supported by the school, having held juice and biscuit sales for children at playtimes, a coffee afternoon and a Pink Evening for women. This is the fourth year a team from St George’s has taken part in the Moonwalk.

As reported in yesterday’s The Press, a carnival feel will sweep York this weekend, when the talents of the city’s actors, musicians, sculptors, dancers and artists will be on show.

York’s second Fiesta festival, an all-singing, all-dancing free of charge city centre celebration of community and voluntary arts, is taking place tomorrow. Residents and visitors will be given the chance to find out more about, and take part in, an array of creative groups in York – including drawing, photography, textiles and creative writing.

Fiesta guides and maps showing what’s on and where can be picked up from any of York’s libraries or from the city’s many entertainment information leaflet racks. They will also be available, on the day, from the volunteers in orange T-shirts in St Sampson’s Square.

The event is happening between 11am and 3pm.