13-07-2025
EXCLUSIVE Leave us alone! Furious pensioners in sleepy rural village insist they are NOT swingers and that they want nothing to do with 'outrageous' sex festival set to take place in their local field
As temperatures soar across the country, it is heating up in a sleepy Midlands village with the 'unwelcome' arrival of a sex festival.
Residents from Allington a town on the outskirts of Grantham, Lincolnshire, fear that their idyllic hometown has now become' synonymous with swingers!'
Retired business consultant David hit out at the 'unwanted sleaze on our doorsteps' and believes such events should be kept further afield.
He has lived in quaint Allington for 20 years and said: 'I'm not being a prude or being NIMBY but if consenting adults are behaving like that, don't do it in our space!'
David, 71, who declined to be fully named said the Swingathon now running in his desirable village for the fourth year was 'beyond a joke.'
The grandfather said: 'Our beautiful and peaceful little village has become synonymous with swingers. It's outrageous, and we don't welcome it.
'We don't want it here. It is sleaze on our doorstep.'
He was speaking out ahead of an X-rated Swingathon being staged next weekend in huge fields in the outskirts of his village.
The sex and fetish festival features 'play tents', pole dancing, hot tubs, foam parties, mobile dungeons and butt-plug bingo.
Billed as an 'alternative lifestyle festival' with tickets costing up to £265 with a camping spot, revellers can also browse and buy sex toys, cool each other down with water hoses and frolic around naked or in skimpy underwear.
Marquees are filled with kinky whips and chains, spanking paddles and bondage equipment.
Another shocked local Mark told MailOnline: 'The mind boggles and it's not something we really want our village to be associated with.'
The accountant, 61, and father-of-two teenage daughters, added: 'As along as they keep their activities away from view, I suppose we can't complain.
'But we don't want to be known as the most sexually liberated village in Britain.
'We're more about tea and cake fairs at the the village hall, vegetable and produce shows, parish council meetings, cycling and walking.
'In 2020 we were voted the best kept village in the county!'
He pointed out that the fields where the sex festivals is being held belongs to Arena UK, a championship equestrian show ground which this weekend is hosting a qualifying showjumping and dressage event.
Allington is described as a 'charming village situated on the edge of the beautiful Vale of Belvoir' which has just one pub The Welby Arms, a primary school, kids' playground and wedding and function venue Allington Manor but not one single shop.
In contrast, some locals say they have no problem with the raunchy festival.
Nep Reeves joked: 'We're all waiting for an invite!'
The retired HGV driver: 'None of the visitors bothers us. They come in from the A1, have their fun, then go out.'
Mr Reeves, who has lived in the village for 25 years, said: 'It's a lovely place, very quiet and peaceful. It is mainly retired people here.
'The Swingathon use to be held at another venue but it's been in our village for the past three of four years and is now in its fifth year in Lincolnshire.'
He added: 'It's all a bit of fun and doesn't cause me or my family any concern.'
His neighbour Chris Dicken said: 'I have no strong feelings either way.'
The 80-year-old grandad grinned: 'I'd probably be jealous of them all!
'It doesn't make me angry, I'm very open-minded.'
A woman, whose grand daughter attends the primary school, said: 'We all know the sex festival goes on which people from all over come to.
'But we've know idea if people from the village attend.
'I don't have a problem with the carryings on of consenting adults - whatever floats their boat!'
Engineer Jack Webster said of the raunchy revellers: 'They can do whatever they want to, we don't even notice they are there.'
The dad-of-two, 38, added: 'There's a couple of jokes on the local WhatsApp group with people asking "Are you going to the Swingathon?" But it's all light hearted banter which passes after 24 hours.'
Dawn Wilson, who grew up in the village and is a bar tender at the only pub, said: 'I know some people have been shocked by the festival but it doesn't bother me one bit!
'Whether the visitors come into the pub I have no idea because they don't heave a big sign on their heads saying 'We're swingers!'
She added: 'Most of us find it quite funny. It's not illegal and they're not causing us any bother.'
