With just under a month to go until Falmouth’s biggest annual sports festival, the ZestiFAL team have announced there will be even more exciting activities taking place this year.

ZestiFAL, which runs between July 23 and 27, is a vibrant and colourful festival organised by the Falmouth BID, which brings together a host of local sports clubs and activity providers for five days of free taster sessions and challenges.

New this year will be a Segway taster day thanks to Cornwall Segway, who will be taking over Events Square on Wednesday, July 27, while Cornwall Volleyball Academy have announced a series of exhibition matches and free have-a-go beach volleyball sessions for children and adults on Gyllyngvase Beach throughout the week.

ZestiFAL will transform the town’s open spaces into various "zones - Studio and Active Zones on The Moor, Team Zone on Events Square, Beach Zone on Gyllyngvase Beach and a Family Zone in Kimberley Park. Each zone will host a timetable of activities for all ages and abilities, details of which can be found at falmouth.co.uk.

On the Sunday at 1pm the Pirate Tuff Enuff Run will start on The Moor. A mass of pirates will take on the obstacle run to raise money for Cornwall Hospice Care. The route takes runners through the town towards Events Square, where they will traverse a range of obstacles built by renowned Cornish fitness company Tuff Enuff, before heading back to The Moor. To book your place visit cornwallhospicecare.co.uk.

Other ZestiFAL activities taking place on Events Square, include abseiling down the Maritime Museum tower with BF Adventure; tennis, rugbytots, hockey with the Cornwall Sports Partnership.

Kimberley Park will become the Family Zone on July 27, where last year over 1,000 people came along to try out many fun, family-focused activities. This year visitors will discover a mountain bike trail, dance and fitness workshops, circus skills, rugbytots, inflatables and organised games laid on by the Dracaena Centre. And look out for the ZestiFAL dance mob which will congregate at 1pm for a final day dance-off.

At Gylly Beach there will be watersports and gym sessions. WESUP Paddleboarding Centre have put together a special program of free and discounted daily taster sessions in addition to a special ZestiFAL SUP Race on the final day. St Michael’s Hotel gym will be various gym studio-style classes on the beach each morning and afternoon. Falmouth-based Cornish Diving School will be taking first time and experienced divers out, while Gylly Surf Lifesaving Club are co-ordinating a special Women in Waves session.

Richard Wilcox, Falmouth BID manager, said: “It’s terrific that we have so many businesses engaged with ZestiFAL 2016. The event very much aims to support local trade and promote sport, health and well-being to the Falmouth and Cornwall communities. Visitors to Falmouth during ZestiFAL will have the chance to try out a whole host of brilliant activities from paddleboarding and scuba, to Pilates and climbing."