50 ways to have fun at Wight Games Festival
The festival is supporting three Island good causes in Mountbatten IW, Independent Arts and the IW NHS Trust Charity, and will be taking place across lots of different sports and venues mainly during July and August.
Mike Christie, the G4 singing group member and Cowes resident, devised the festival to support three charities and to bring fun and games to the Isle of Wight this summer.
Mike is also known for his hugely successful annual Wight Proms Festival, which started in 2018 and is still going strong and for his highly accomplished acting, composing, singing and songwriting career.
He recently announced he will also be launching a sushi cafe in Cowes this summer called The Bath House on Park Road.
Events ranging from croquet in Ryde to welly wanging at the Royal IW County Show will give Islanders the chance to try something new this year.
Fun events on the menu include Quizzy Bingo at Mountbatten, Roman Board Games at Brading Roman Villa and Rummikub at the IW Alzheimer Café in Cowes.
And if you are looking for something more sporty and competitive, tennis, pickleball and sailing are among the traditional sports taking their place in the festival.
Mike said: “We are so pleased that we now have more than 50 events on the website. The huge range of fun sports and games means there is something for everyone.
“Our slogan is Ready, Steady, Wight! And we hope that the Island will support the good causes and use the festival to go outside their comfort zone to try something they perhaps would never have thought of doing.”
All of the events are listed on the Wight Games Festival website www.wightgames.co.uk.
Mike said: “It gives me enormous joy to give something back to the Island community. The Isle of Wight is packed with extraordinary clubs, groups and individuals doing brilliant things and this Festival is our chance to showcase that incredible variety.
“I wanted to create something where absolutely everyone can take part in something that interests them, whether it’s a traditional sport they already love or something completely unexpected that they haven’t even tried before.
“It’s about rethinking what we see as a ‘sport’ making the Festival fully accessible, bringing people together and, at the same time, raising money for three extremely important local charities who do amazing work on our Island.”
Free to enter, the festival will encourage donations throughout with all funds raised shared equally between Mountbatten Isle of Wight, Independent Arts and the Isle of Wight NHS Trust Charity.
Details of participating clubs and events are on the Wight Games Festival website www.wightgames.co.uk where people are simply asked to register their interest in whatever sport or activity they would like to take part in.
Organisers hope the inaugural Festival will become an annual fixture on the Island calendar, celebrating the diversity, creativity and community spirit that makes the Isle of Wight so special.
📅 June – August 2026
📍 Various locations across the island
📷www.wightgames.co.uk