Thanks to all those that attended the AGM on Saturday 18 January 2025.
The AGM documents, are available online here, for this and previous AGMs.
The presentation is available directly, here. It includes the official business of the AGM, and information looking back on 2024, and forward to 2025.
The latest Folk Camps newsletter is now available to read and download from this page on the website. News for members and those looking to book their 2025 Folk Camps holidays.
We can now share our programme of 2025 Folk Camps holidays with you. They are all available to book now. If your TV viewing is already full of holiday ads, well you can ignore them now, and instead book a Folk Camps holiday.
If your choice of Folk Camp is influenced by the camp staff, then look here.
New for this year, you will pay the deposit by card online as part of the booking process. It will automatically charge £20 per person in your booking. This will save you having to remember to pay the deposit after you have sent your booking request, and simplify the life of Kerstin, our Admin Manager. More info here.
Find out more about Folk Camps.
Here are a few of the reviews and comments from people who experienced Folk Camps for the first time in 2024:
“My first camp – I was apprehensive – but felt immediately welcomed and comfortable. Thank you all. The Music Workshop was welcoming for all abilities and I learnt a lot”
“This has been my first week at a Folk Camp and the first time as an adult I have felt like part of a community. I absolutely love what you do here, the day routine, sharing duties, the workshops, circle time. Everyone’s been incredibly warm and welcoming. Thank you so much to all the staff for a wonderful holiday, it’s been very special!”
“Dear Folk Camps, Thank you for everything. We’ve had a wonderful time and everyone’s kindness has meant a lot. My husband says he wishes he had started dancing at the beginning of the week because now he loves it!”
“As a first time camper. the whole week has been fantastic. The staff team were brilliant, and despite having had Folk Camps explained to us for many years by some long-term attendees, it’s impossible to have the experience distilled enough to be prepared for the level of warmth and welcome we experienced.
It’s like the best kind of family event you could wish for, with a family group you can pick yourself. Nothing could have improved our first Folk Camps. xxx”
Read more from both new Folk Campers, and those that come back year after year.
When you book your 2025 Folk Camps holidays, you will now pay the deposit by card as part of the booking process. The website booking form will charge £20 per person in your booking.
This mechanism will reduce the admin steps that need to be carried out for each booking; this will save Kerstin time and effort, which also reduces Folk Camps costs and helps us minimise price increases. This payment with booking will also remove the need for you to remember to make a bank transfer for your deposit.
You will still be responsible for paying the balance by bank transfer before each camp. The balance is due one month before weekend camps, and two months before summer weeks and the Craft break. If you do not pay the balance in time, then you lose the “early bird” price, and the higher rate is due.
A few members find it helps their personal cashflow by spreading the payments of the balance over the year. E.g. by making monthly payments. If you want to do this, please contact our Admin Manager Kerstin Jewell, via bookings@folkcamps.co.uk.
Patrick Self – Folk Camps Chair
The Folk Camps AGM will be held in January 2025, online only.
As we discussed at the 2023 AGM, we will no longer hold a combined AGM and Reunion, due to costs and declining attendance. Instead, an online AGM will allow more people to attend, especially those for whom it was difficult to travel to the AGM location.
In autumn 2024, we provided opportunities for governing members to talk to members of Council at the northern August bank holiday Folk Camp. Council members always welcome views and conversations with the membership. You can contact us via the office (info@folkcamps.co.uk) or the website contact form.
The AGM will be held on Saturday 18th January, 2025. Official notification will be emailed to governing members in late December 2024.
More details here.
The latest Folk Camps newsletter is now available on this page on the website. It contains important news and information for members of Folk Camps – especially if you are planning to go to this summer’s Folk Camps.
If you want to wear some Folk Camps branded clothing, we have you covered. We have partnered with Impact Trading to provide a range of options for you at bargain prices.
There are high quality t-shirts, sweatshirts, hoodies and even branded bags: maybe an ideal way to store your camping crockery, your folk camps music books, or to take your towel to the beach!
There are a variety of colours and sizes, including child and adult sizes from age 1 (20” chest) up to adult 5XL (62” chest), so surely your size is available!
They are high quality, with embroidered logos. They are made to order, so a huge range is available. Choose a brave colourway to be unique when you wear it at a Folk Camp. Wear them to festivals and events and tell everyone you meet about Folk Camps. (Remember that if you introduce a friend to Folk Camps, you gain a Folk Camps credit!)
Start here for despatch info, and follow the link to the catalogue.
What colour will you order?
We have published a “Campers Guide” with information and tips for Folk Campers, both old and new. The guide for weekend camps is here, and the guide for summer weeks is here.
The guide explains what to expect at most camps, you need to bring, when things happen, and more.
There’s also more detailed information in the FAQ pages.
In February, Folk Camps appointed Lorna Flower to the role of Logistics Manager.
This is a contract role, which will include ensuring that everything we need for each Folk Camp is arranged. For summer catered camps this involves booking the site, toilets, marquee, gas, food and other provisions. For weekend events, this involves booking fields and village halls.
In the past, this work was split between Jenny Hopper, who was Provisions Contractor, and Steve Porritt who was Sites Contractor. We thank them for many years of work for Folk Camps, and welcome Lorna to the team who is an experienced Folk Camper.
See more on the Contractors page.
