Addaction community recovery champions and volunteers are organising a special festival of Hope in Truro’s Boscawen Park between noon and 5pm on Saturday, August 20.  

The festival offers a wide range of activities for all the family, including music performance by bands Mudsticks and Addaction’s Hopefully Synchronised, circus skills workshops and hair braiding and a special performance of children’s story the Ugly Duckling.

’The aim of the festival is to celebrate how people come through adversity and treatment and flourish,’ said Tracy Smith, Addaction’s community engagement lead.

As well as circus skills and hair up-dos and braiding, there will be face painting and a bouncy castle, and a range of stalls, including food and home-made cakes.

’The event is substance free and no alcohol will be on sale or will be allowed to be brought in to the festival,’ said Tracy.