Editing Lechlade (section)

==Culture and community==
Lechlade has hosted a music festival since 2011.<ref>[http://www.lechladefestival.co.uk Lechlade Music Festival], retrieved 26 May 2015</ref> In 2015 the festival's headline act was [[Status Quo (band)|Status Quo]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Murray |first1=Alex |title=Lechlade Festival: Town gets down with The Quo |url=https://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/leisure/music/contemporary/reviews/12977999.lechlade-festival-town-gets-down-with-the-quo/ |access-date=18 February 2019 |work=Oxford Times |date=28 May 2015}}</ref> The festival was cancelled in 2023 due to poor weather causing the ground to be too soft, which resulted in the Lechlade Festival company going into liquidation. <ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-65581795 | title=Lechlade Festival cancelled due to water logged ground | work=BBC News | date=13 May 2023 }}</ref>

Lechlade has a number of youth activities, most of them centred on the Memorial Hall and the adjacent Lechlade Pavilion Hall. Behind the Town Hall are large playing fields, an astro turf pitch, a skate park and a playground.<ref>{{cite web |title=New skate park opens in Lechlade |date=13 April 2018 |url=https://www.soglos.com/sport-outdoor/44140/New-skate-park-opens-in-Lechlade |publisher=So Glos |access-date=24 February 2019}}</ref> The memorial hall was rebuilt after a fire in 2016.<ref>{{cite web |title=Lechlade Memorial Hall |url=https://www.book-online.co.uk/lechlade |publisher=Lechlade Memorial Hall |access-date=24 February 2019}}</ref>

1970 Squadron [[Air Training Corps]] was founded in the town in 1997. The squadron's membership consisted of young people from Lechlade and neighbouring towns such as [[Fairford]] and [[Faringdon]]. The unit has disbanded and all cadets transferred, many attending the group in [[Highworth]]. The 1st Lechlade Scout Group can trace its origins back to 1915 when [[Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell|Robert Baden-Powell]] inspected Scouts from Lechlade and the surrounding area.