The annual Spirit of Kinder event, celebrating Kinder Scout and the 1932 Mass Trespass, comes to Sheffield on Saturday, April 26.
The event, which will also celebrate 10 years of the implementation of the CROW Act which gave the Right to Roam in open country, is organised by the Kinder & High Peak Advisory Committee and will be held at Sheffield Town Hall starting at 2.30pm. It is free and open to all.
Keynote speakers will include John Mothersole, Chief Executive of Sheffield City Council, and Kate Ashbrook, President of the Ramblers and General Secretarty of the Open Spaces Society. Councillor Peter Price of Sheffield City Council will be master of ceremonies.
Other speakers will include Bill Bevan, the Sheffield-based archaeologist and interpreter, who will describe the prehistory of Kinder Scout, and Annabelle Kennedy of the Sheffield Wildlife Trust, who will outline the work of the Sheffield Moors Partnership.
Young representatives of the Woodcraft Folk will describe the various Sheffield trespasses which took place during the 1930s, including the often-forgotten successful Abbey Brook Trespass on September 18, 1932.
Among the organisations expected to attend are the Ramblers; Sheffield Campaign for Access to Moorland; Peak & Northern Footpaths Society; British Mountaineering Council; the National Trust; Peak District National Park Authority; Peak District Mountain Rescue Organisation; the Sheffield Moors Partnership and Friends of the Peak District (CPRE).
A full version of the programme will be available on the Kinder Trespass website