MAKING the most of the countryside, learning more about what is has to offer and what you can do to help protect it are the aims of a new family fun day being hosted by the Campaign to Protect Rural England, collaborating with students from the University of Winchester.

Becky French of CPRE Hampshire in Winchester, is working with the students on the project this Sunday, May 11, from 11.30am to 4pm at the Queen Elizabeth Country Park, near Petersfield.

She thought up the idea and said: "Hopefully we can give young people an appreciation of the countryside through taking part in lots of fun physical activities. There will be many organisations present to give them information on clubs to join, places to go and how to help out if they want to take their initial interest further."

A wealth of hands-on rural activities, crafts, and displays are being arranged together with more energetic events. The line-up includes Forest Knights' wilderness skills, fly-fishing with the Environment Agency, FalconHigh bird displays; dissecting owl pellets with the RSPB and orienteering courses.

You can juggle with the Portsmouth Jugglers; do the Laser Clay Pigeon Shoot and Beat the Goaly' football fun. Fantastic prizes include family tickets to Finkley Down Farm, "Go Ape" Highwire Adventure and the New Forest Show.

Behind the scenes, CPRE volunteers in Winchester have been campaigning on the subject of the Local Development Framework.

According to CPRE Hampshire the more residents hear, the greater their anxiety, caused by proposals for massive development on Greenfield sites in the locality between 2006 and 2026.

7:38pm Monday 5th May 2008

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