This page contains information about the nationally arranged meets. Most meets are organised locally and are found under the areas link.
The next National Camping Meet for the folk group will be at Easter when we are holding our Spring Festival at Evesham 16-21 April, 2025. There will be workshops across a wide range of folk activities (Song, Music, Crafts, Dance, … whatever members are willing to contribute!) There will also be a full “family Festival” catering for a range of ages. Day visitors are welcome to attend. Under 18s camping with a family unit are free.
This event has its own website, which you can find HERE. This includes the programme as it develops and also on line booking. Updates on this page will only be for very important announcements, to avoid the problem of two sources of information needing to be kept up to date on a daily basis, so please consult the Spring Festival page for full details.
Following on from our Spring Festival, the next nationally organised camping meet will be our Summer Gather, to be held at CockShutt in Shropshire, Thursday 26th. June to Tuesday 1st July. This is being coordinated by our North West Area, and full details will be available on their site as they become available. There will be a dances and workshops throughout the meet, plus, of course, the Folk Group’s exciting Annual General Meeting (Saturday 28th. at 2pm) followed by a members meeting where discussions can help set future directions! If you are travelling some distance to this meet, and are free to stay longer in the area, the North West Area is organising another meet at Upton Magna starting on Tuesday 1st July so people can move directly from on meet to another. Fuller details on the North West website.
Do remember that these events are only the very few that are organised centrally (typically four a year). The vast majority of our exciting and vibrant activities are organised by individual areas, and publicised through their websites which ensures details are up to date and can react to local circumstances..