The CLA Game Fair sounds like the best thing in a field since Glastonbury. Gemma Collins gives you a full fun rundown.

B uff up your wax jackets and dust off your deerstalkers, the Country Landowners' Association's annual Game Fair returns to Belvoir Castle next week, and is expected to attract hundreds of thousands of visitors from across Britain and abroad.

With the summer holidays in full swing, the opportunity to provide the family with a few days of fun, and an endless supply of dinner table adventure stories, gets a great big tick on our "to do" list at The Week HQ.

Conveniently enough, Have a Go is the event's theme this year, with more activities on offer than ever before.

The rather thoughtful people at the CLA have organised fishing, clay shooting, archery, 4x4 driving, mountain boarding and aerial trekking, to name but a few.

That's on top of a young person's cookery theatre, a maize maze and laser combat.

As one would expect at such an event, there will also be falcons and ferrets, horses, gun dogs and shooting, with a special appearance from the castle's master of Belvoir hounds.

Among the most popular displays to grace the event is the return of The Totally Food Show, with the British Food Village focusing on local and regional produce.

Look out for food heroes Dickinson & Morris, Brocklebys, Quenby Stilton and poultry farmers W E Botterill & Son, presenting some of our county's finest fair.

The fabulous Clarissa Dickson Wright will be selling and signing copies of her books.

But on a more serious note, each year the game fair features aspects of conservation. This time around, the focus is on exploring the rural future.

A life-size reconstruction of a timber and straw house will be erected, with a section demonstrating the latest in sustainable living, while a guided woodland trail for families to explore highlights the show's promotion of all aspects of the countryside and rural life.

Info

The Country Landowners' Association's Game Fair returns to Belvoir Castle next weekend. Gates open at 6.30am on Friday, July 24 and 7am on Saturday and Sunday, July 25 and 26.

For tickets, call 0844 848 0990.