The Leicester Peace & Love Festival is a charitable event for the benefit of everybody in Leicester/shire and aims to promote active community cohesion, increase inter-communal awareness and celebrate diversity within the City & County. It will follow its ongoing theme of assisting the citizens of Leicester/shire – especially young people - to be diverted away from the dangers of guns, knives, gangs and violent extremism etc. by allowing them to develop and use their skills and talents through purposeful expressive arts. The festival offers local and regional singers, ‘unplugged’ artists, poets, dancers, bands and visual artists etc. the opportunity to perform or present original material, raise their profiles and 'give something back'.