News

Read our newsletter with information and news about our members. With information about our summer camp, and from some recent weekend events.

This newsletter and all previous ones are available here.

Find details of the AGM on this page.

Read our newsletter with information and news from our members. With information about our 2026 summer programme, new equipment for Folk Camps, feedback from 2025 camps, ideas for the future, and much more.

Find the current newsletter, and previous issues, here.

For 2026 Folk Camps, we have widened the age band for young adult prices. Previously, this age band was 18-21, it is now 18-24. We understand that our young Folk Campers who are newly independent from their parents find camp prices difficult to pay for; this change is intended to make life a little easier for our young adult members.

We have kept the summer week early bird prices the same as they were in 2025. However, the full price has increased by £10, so to ensure you get the early price, please book early, and pay in full by the due date (which is at least 2 months before summer week camps start).

Short weekend camp adult prices have only increased by £1. Long weekends by only £2 (i.e. bank holidays or other 3 or 4 night camps).

See the 2026 Programme of Folk Camps here. Or go here to see staff and their camps.

Read our newsletter with information and news about our members. With information about our summer camp, and from some recent weekend events.

This newsletter and all previous ones are available here.

This is in the Folk Camps FAQ, and also made move visible here. The policy on isolation is unchanged, the only real change for 2025 is that Folk Camps no longer provides Covid tests.

Q. What should I do if I think I have Covid or any other illness while at a Folk Camp?
A. If you think you have Covid or any other infectious disease while at camp, please isolate until your symptoms ease and let a member of staff camp know. We form a close knit community at each Folk Camp and do not want to spread any illness.  Folk Camps follows UK government guidance regarding Covid. For the 2025 season onwards, Folk Camps no longer provides Covid tests. Individuals are responsible for their own health whether they suspect Covid or any other illness. See booking condition 6 if you have any infectious disease.

In the Council meeting after the AGM, Patrick Self was re-elected as Chair, Barry Pollard was elected as Vice Chair, and Claire Mycock was re-elected as Company Secretary.

We have just opened bookings for the Knees-up Weekender, which is a new self-cater weekend for young adults. Taking place on 4-6 July 2025. At Little Horwood, not far from Milton Keynes.

The staff are all in their 20s and 30s, and we expect the campers will be too.

More details here.

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.