Farleigh Hospice will bring a new family-friendly fundraising event to Maldon's Promenade Park on Sunday 9 July.

Splash Out! is a "wet and wild" five-kilometre outdoor obstacle course. Participants will slip and slide around two laps, taking on a total of ten water-based obstacles. These include floating stepping-stones, a giant dodgeball, and an eight-metre pit full of floating balls.

Entry for adults costs £23, and £12 for those aged from 4 to 15 years.

Get together with family and friends to slip and slide, duck and dodge, and wobble and wade your way around the 2.5-kilometre course - not once but twice - for 5K of fun!

You will go over, under and through five exciting obstacles on the route each time, making it ten in total, including:

• floating stepping stones
• a giant dodge ball
• an 8-metre long ball pit full of 10,000 floating balls!

Sign in opens from 9.30am, the event runs from 10am to 1pm and you will be sent your start time after you book.

Fundraising Manager Debbie de Boltz said, "Farleigh is facing a growing demand for our services. We want to be there to help everyone with a life-limiting illness to live as actively as possible from their diagnosis to the end of their life and to also support their family and carers."