Outdoor vibes: 10 of Britain’s best wild festivals for 2022

Camp Wildfire, Sevenoaks, Kent

Able to get in contact along with your inside little one? Anticipate good clear enjoyable at this “summer time camp for adults” – a minimum of 100 actions, run by screens decked out in retro Scout uniforms, are included in your ticket. Depart your doldrums on the door and check out your hand at flying trapeze, constructing an enormous catapult or enjoying in a vegetable orchestra, which entails fashioning working devices from greens reminiscent of carrots! Issues are bit extra grown-up after darkish – hop between DJ units together with Charlotte Church’s Late Night time Pop Dungeon.
26-29 August & 2-5 September, £245, over-18s solely,
campwildfire.co.uk

Verve pageant, Tisbury, Wiltshire

garden workshops at Verve.
Rising enthusiasm … backyard workshops at Verve

Right here for a blissful time, however not for lengthy, Verve takes over the grounds of Hatch Home in Wiltshire for simply someday in September and describes itself because the “final reset”. It’s one of many first zero-waste festivals within the UK, and the vibe is extra backyard get together than mosh pit. The main target right here is on feeling good – head to the intimate backyard space for pop-up talks on every part from medicinal vegetation to mindfulness, or deliver your yoga mat to pattern “om and bass” rhythmic yoga. Youngsters and youths (entry solely £5) get their very own tailor-made yoga and meditation classes.
17 September, £69, feeltheverve.com

Summer season Camp on the Good Life Society, Hawarden, north Wales

The walled garden at Summer Camp.
Time for tunes … the walled backyard at Summer season Camp. Photograph: Division Two

Festivals don’t get extra bijou than Summer season Camp, which hosts 100 friends every weekend through the month of July for a get-together specializing in nature and wild craft. An A to Z of workshops consists of every part from beekeeping and mushroom foraging to wooden whittling, or you possibly can bliss out with a dip within the lake, full with wood-fired sauna. Whereas Summer season Camp tickets are on the steep aspect, two-course connoisseur suppers are included within the value, and when the solar goes down, there are campfires and stay tunes within the walled backyard. In case your common pageant makes you're feeling a bit agoraphobic, this could possibly be the right tonic. Can’t make summer time? There’s an Autumn Camp in September, too – suppose bonfires, feasts and mellow fruitfulness.
1-25 July, £485 for 2 tickets,thegoodlifesociety

You-Phoria pageant, Knebworth Park, Hertfordshire

You-Phoria
You-Phoria … the clue’s within the title. Photograph: Julia Benfield

As its title suggests, it is a chirpy wellness-themed weekender. Anticipate an upbeat strategy to getting energetic, full with morning raves, yoga discos and curler skating – the cheery have-a-go vibes make this pageant supreme for energetic households. Rob da Financial institution and DJ Yoda will preserve you transferring after darkish, and reasonably priced day and night passes make this the right escape from town for just a few feel-good hours – Knebworth Park is lower than an hour and a half from central London.
20-22 Might, £123.25, day/night passes obtainable, youphoria-festival.co.uk

Love Trails pageant, Gower peninsula

Love Trails.
Working with the programme at Love Trails. Photograph: Anna Rachel Pictures

Right here’s proof that a shared ardour for off-road working is an efficient sufficient motive to get collectively and get together. Non-competitive path working adventures throughout the Gower Peninsula and the Brecon Beacons are the spine of this sporty pageant, however when you’ve labored up a sweat it’s again to the Love Trails headquarters close to Swansea for stay bands and DJ units till late. There’s a guided run to swimsuit everybody, from 3km jogs to 55km stomps (plus a tempting pub crawl run), and non-runners can check out climbing, browsing and wild swimming classes. If you happen to wish to discover laborious and play laborious, that is the place to be.
30 June–3 July, £179, lovetrailsfestival.co.uk

Take the plunge … wild swimming at Also.
Make the leap … wild swimming at Additionally. Photograph: thebanfield

Additionally pageant, Compton Verney, Warwickshire

Pack your swimsuit for Additionally, a “pageant of concepts” with a lovely swimming lake on the centre of the positioning. Be a part of fellow festivalgoers for daybreak and sundown dips, workshops for newbie wild swimmers and introductions to standup paddleboarding. Again on dry land, Additionally’s eclectic workshops encourage you to pattern one thing new, from making Chinese language dumplings to robotic coding. Up-and-coming bands rub shoulders with comedy and cabaret on stage.
8-10 July, £120, also-festival.com

Timber pageant, Feanedock, Leicestershire

secret acoustic sets at the Timber festival.
Hidden skills … secret acoustic units on the Timber pageant. Photograph: Wild Rumpu

If you happen to go right down to the woods right this moment … it's possible you'll bump into a celebration hidden among the many timber. Timber pageant is a celebration by The Nationwide Forest of sustainability and activism, with an enormous dose of music and creativity thrown in. Anticipate roaming artwork installations, talks by environmentalists and poets (poet laureate Simon Armitage returns this 12 months) and an eclectic lineup of folksy bands. The key acoustic units and late-night storytelling pop-ups hidden in wood glades are highlights.
1-3 July, £128.40, day tickets obtainable for £42.80, timberfestival.org.uk

Alpkit Huge Shakeout, Hathersage, Peak District

“Do you wish to climb, trip, hike, abseil, kayak, bushcraft, cave, run, slackline, sail, swim?” Alpkit organisers ask in capital letters on the Huge Shakeout pageant web site. If that listing fills you with adventurous lust, this action-packed weekender within the coronary heart of the Peak District is right here to get your adrenaline pumping. Out of doors model Alpkit arrange their not-for-profit pageant with a easy thought in thoughts – actions within the day, leisure at night time. The Faculty of Journey classes take you exploring into the Peak District, whereas at pageant headquarters there’s a jam-packed schedule of talks, movies and stay music to fill your (mountaineering) boots within the evenings.
24-26 September, adults £80, youngsters £40, alpkit.com

Armchair Journey pageant, Mount Edgecumbe, Cornwall

Prepared to sit down again and journey? The Armchair Journey pageant is for would-be explorers on the lookout for recommendation and inspiration. As soon as a digital pageant, this intimate get together held on the Cornish coast hosts audio system who share tales of derring-do and provides “bootcamp” workshops on a variety of subjects, from pictures to funding. It’s all designed to assist attendees plan the expedition of a lifetime. There’s energetic stuff on the menu too – fancy paddleboarding with dolphins or happening a wild swimming safari? Stay music kicks off because the solar units.
22-25 September, £99, armchairadventurefestival.com


Fort William Mountain pageant, the Highlands

Winter adventures at Fort William Mountain festival.
On the up … winter adventures at Fort William Mountain pageant. Photograph: Omega Guiding

Can’t wait till summer time to get your pageant repair? Fort William, the self-proclaimed “outside capital of the UK”, kicks off the journey pageant circuit in February, when the snowy hills of Lochaber, within the western Highlands, come alive over a protracted weekend with a mixture of mountain workshops and journey movie screenings. Head open air with skilled instructors to brush up on avalanche consciousness, winter strolling abilities, canoeing and fell working, or be an armchair adventurer again in Fort William, the place varied places throughout the city host a jam-packed schedule of outdoorsy movies, talks and stay music.
16-20 February, most ticketed occasions and screenings £15,mountainfestival.co.uk

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