Our Family Weekend event is designed to be a fun day out for all ages. We’ll have a variety of traders and exhibitors for you to see and enjoy including Emergency Services, the Army, rides and more. There will also be various live music, demonstrations and shows. Tours of the airfield will be available including visits within aircraft hangars, the Airport Fire Service and Control Tower.
Featuring Pip Ahoy! From Channel 5’s Milkshake.
At FunFest on the Pip Ahoy! stand we will have Pip himself for all his young fans to meet and take pictures with. There will be Pip Ahoy! activity sheets for Children to take away and also we will be bringing a selection of the Pip Ahoy! merchandise to purchase at special FunFest prices.
About Pip Ahoy!
Pip Ahoy! is a Children’s animated TV series by CHF Entertainment and airs on Channel 5’s Milkshake every day. Pip Ahoy! aims to bring fun and laughter into every home with its mixture of extraordinary and the familiar. Young Pup Pip and his friends carry out a rescue here, solve a problem there, taking care of their close-knit community and looking out for others in Salty Cove, a perfect seaside town, where everyone knows him, and his three best friends; Alba an eager kitten, Hopper a one-legged seagull and Pasty the crab. They’re an intrepid bunch of explorers!
Salty Cove boasts everything a proper seaside resort should have: a sandy beach with little coves and pools to visit, a row of welcoming beach huts and above this, the sunny promenade with its parade of shops. By land, sea and sky, you can’t help but be irresistibly drawn to this colourful spot - and all the adventures it offers. Pip’s adventurous, happy-go-lucky and every-eager to help out is always first on the case with his Scopey Eye when a new boat docks at the harbour or The Bubble Train come into view. He and his best friend Alba are the hub around which the stories resolve. Alba is a kitten of about the same age. And, being of the female persuasion, is perhaps a little more thoughtful than he.
Sir David Jason provides the voice for a number of characters in Pip Ahoy! The main being Pip’s Uncle, Captain Skipper whose home is the lighthouse at the end of Salty Cove, as well as Pasty, Rocktopus and Mr Morris the Bubble Train Driver.
Other attractions currently being confirmed are;
- A variety of fairground stalls*
- Army including climbing wall
- North West 4×4 Response
- Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service (Sun only)
- Bolton Mountain Rescue (Sat only)
- Manchester Blood Bikes (Sun only)
- Lancashire Aero Club
- Reach Sled Dogs
- Live singing from the Irlam Male Voice Choir (Sat only)
- Singers and Childrens entertainers including Pip Ahoy from Channel 5’s Milkshake (as above)
- Scotty’s Circus Workshop (Sun only)
- Punch & Judy and Magic Shows (Sat only)
- Georgia’s Reptile Ark
- Veterans Garage Manchester
- Performing Pony’s from Leopolds Equestrian Productions
- Dancing from the Irlam Royalettes Morris Dancers
- Licensed Bar (Runway 26 Cafe/Bar)
- Picnic Seating area
- Control Tower viewing Balcony
- Free Airfield Hangar and Control Tower Tours (provided by the Friends of Barton Aerodrome)
*Please note that fairground rides and some attractions may be charged separately. Not all attractions will be present on both days. All attractions are subject to alteration, change or cancellation.