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Win! A Family Ticket to Blissfields – 3rd-4th July 2015
If like me, you are feeling a little bit sad this week because you’re not at Glastonbury – here’s something to cheer you up!
Blissfields still has tickets available. And we have a family ticket to give away!
https://www.facebook.com/festivalkidz
Please get your entries in by Thursday 25th June!
Read more…
WIN! A Family Ticket to Common People Festival
A Grand Day Out from the Bestival Team
We’ve teamed up with the Bestival crew to offer a family ticket to the first ever Common People; a brand new two-day metropolitan adventure, set in the leafy, green surrounds of Southampton Common. Put together with love by the acclaimed Bestival family, there will be lashings of the team’s unique magic, mayhem and merriment unifying party lovers across the south coast and beyond, for a truck load of bank holiday high jinx this 23rd & 24th May.
Common People’s stellar inaugural line-up features headliners Fatboy Slim and Grace Jones and fantastic music including De La Soul, Jaguar Skills, DJ Yoda, George the Poet, Plastic Mermaids,Funky Little Choir, and Mr Motivator on Saturday. And Clean Bandit,Band of Skulls, Years & Years,Kitty, Daisy & Lewis,Slaves,The Cuban Brothers, Craig Charles and West End Kids on Sunday.
Bestival’s creative team will be flexing their visionary muscles, taking the spirit of Bestival to the heart of Southampton, transforming the common into a world of wonder with a host of fantastical fun, daytime diversions, amusements and good times for one and all
With a host of some of the most exciting underground electronic music the world has to offer, Saturday will see Junk at the controls with sets from Dusky, Huxley, Wayze & Odyssey, Dense & Pika and more. And Switch take over on Sunday with Chicago house legend Derrick Carter, Seconcity, Rob da Bank, and more. We’ll also have Southampton’s illustrious Joiners adding to the mix in our news bands area the Uncommon Stage,and plenty more fun & games to boot.
All you have to do to win a family weekend ticket is follow the instructions below!
a Rafflecopter giveaway
Facebook: Facebook.com/commonpeoplefestival
Twitter: @cpeoplefest
Instagram: @commonpeoplefestival
Non-camping event
* Family tickets are for a maximum of two adults and two children aged 17 or under.
For more information please see our Factsheet on Common People.
TICKET INFO: For day or weekend tickets head to: ticketline.co.uk/common-people
WIN! A Family Ticket to Larmer Tree!
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A family ticket to Larmer Tree, 14th-19th July 2015, Wiltshire/Dorset
We have a family ticket to the amazing Larmer Tree festival to give away!
The family ticket is for two adult and two youth OR two child tickets from Thursday 16th to Sunday 19th July, including tent camping and a multi-day parking pass for the four nights.
This year’s line up is amazing, including Tom Jones, The Levellers, Jimmy Cliff, Bill Bailey – enough entertainment to suit anyone’s tastes! For the full line up see their website.
It’s in a gorgeous location, has some of the best facilities on the festival circuit, and has so many different workshops for children you’ll find it difficult to choose what to do!
Larmer Tree won a Festival Kidz Gold Award in 2014 and 2013 if you want to know more see last year’s review and this year’s factsheet.
WIN! A family ticket to Eden festival!
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A family ticket to Eden Festival
11th-14th June 2015, Scotland
Eden Festival is set in the stunning Raehill Meadows of Dumfries, Scotland, from the 11th-14th June. A boutique festival, with over 250 acts performing across 9 stages, bringing you live music, dance, cabaret, burlesque, circus skills, theatre, cinema, a children’s arena, healing space, fun and games and much more.
This years children’s arena they will be taking you under the sea to the land of make believe, swimming and surfing with sea creatures, sailing with pirates and flying with gulls.
Eden will have workshops for children to make pirate flags, fish masks, scuba packs and much more. The Forest Skills team will be leading woodland crafts and bushcraft skills, including campfire cooking and herb walks, and making jewellry, nature art and willow crafts.
The Toddlers Dome is also returning with books, toys and dressing up and on Saturday you can seek out clues for the lost treasure and on Sunday the kids will claim the festival site as their own, when they make some noise on the colourful parade.
We are giving one lucky the reader the chance to win a family ticket for four weekend passes to Eden Festival on 11th-14th June. Camping is included, must bring your own tent.
WIN! Family tickets to Jimmy’s Farm Sausage And Beer Festival
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Family tickets to Jimmy’s Farm Sausage and Beer Festival 25th-26th July 2015, Suffolk
Two days of music, food and top notch children’s entertainment on Jimmy’s farm
We have TWO family tickets (without camping) for Jimmy’s Farm Sausage and Beer Festival to give away. Just enter via the rafflecopter widget to to be in with a chance of winning. Each family ticket gives entry for two adults and two children to both days of the festival. So you’ll be able to see headline acts including Toploader, Athlete and Cbeebies stars Justin Fletcher and Mr Bloom.
Of course there are also lots of foody treats on offer with chef demos, a sausage eating competition and a whole host of food stalls, including vegetarian options. Festival goers can also enjoy all the farm’s usual attractions. (Please note – this prize doesn’t include camping, travel or food)
Jimmy’s Farm Sausage and Beer Festival won a Festival Kidz Silver Award in 2014 if you want to know more see our review and this years factsheet.
Best Family Festivals 2015
Tweet #BestFamilyFestivals2015
Here are our top picks for 2015!
Whether a festival is good for you depends on what music you’re into and what other things you like doing at festivals, as well as the age of your kids. If you are new to festivals with kids, you may want to read our guide to Choosing the right Family-Friendly Festival.
We have included our affiliate links in the listings – if you click “Buy Tickets Now” you will go straight to the ticket page for your chosen festival. You will not pay anything for this but the festival will give us a small commission to keep Festival Kidz up and running – so please use them!
WIN! A family ticket to 3 Wishes Faery Fest!
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A family ticket to 3 Wishes Faery Fest 19th-21st June 2015, Cornwall
Festival Workshops – junk4funk
junk4funk makes Musical Instruments out of rubbish such as pizza boxes and plastic bottles. junk4funk runs workshops in schools and festivals across the country, and would love to be involved in more.
I had the opportunity to interview the owner/director, who wishes to bring his mix of craft, music and recycling to more music festivals. Read more…
WIN! A family ticket to Elderflower Fields!
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A family ticket to Elderflower Fields 22nd-25th May 2015, East Sussex
This competition has now closed.
Click here for further info about this fabulous family festival
Families’ Choice Award 2014
Congratulations Lakefest!
This year we are giving out a new award – the Families’ Choice Award. This is awarded entirely based on the number of votes from our followers. We had an amazing response of nearly 600 votes, 276 of which were for our winning festival, LAKEFEST!
Congratulations to Lakefest!
In second place were the Fairyland Trust events – Fairy Fair and The Real Halloween, followed by Just So and Green Gathering tying for third place.
See our 2014 Gold and Silver Award winners!
Win! A Family Ticket to Blissfields – 3rd-4th July 2015
If like me, you are feeling a little bit sad this week because you’re not at Glastonbury – here’s something to cheer you up!
Blissfields still has tickets available. And we have a family ticket to give away!
https://www.facebook.com/festivalkidz
Please get your entries in by Thursday 25th June!
Read more…
WIN! A Family Ticket to Larmer Tree!
WIN! WIN! WIN!
A family ticket to Larmer Tree, 14th-19th July 2015, Wiltshire/Dorset
We have a family ticket to the amazing Larmer Tree festival to give away!
The family ticket is for two adult and two youth OR two child tickets from Thursday 16th to Sunday 19th July, including tent camping and a multi-day parking pass for the four nights.
This year’s line up is amazing, including Tom Jones, The Levellers, Jimmy Cliff, Bill Bailey – enough entertainment to suit anyone’s tastes! For the full line up see their website.
It’s in a gorgeous location, has some of the best facilities on the festival circuit, and has so many different workshops for children you’ll find it difficult to choose what to do!
Larmer Tree won a Festival Kidz Gold Award in 2014 and 2013 if you want to know more see last year’s review and this year’s factsheet.
WIN! Family tickets to Jimmy’s Farm Sausage And Beer Festival
WIN! WIN! WIN!
Family tickets to Jimmy’s Farm Sausage and Beer Festival 25th-26th July 2015, Suffolk
Two days of music, food and top notch children’s entertainment on Jimmy’s farm
We have TWO family tickets (without camping) for Jimmy’s Farm Sausage and Beer Festival to give away. Just enter via the rafflecopter widget to to be in with a chance of winning. Each family ticket gives entry for two adults and two children to both days of the festival. So you’ll be able to see headline acts including Toploader, Athlete and Cbeebies stars Justin Fletcher and Mr Bloom.
Of course there are also lots of foody treats on offer with chef demos, a sausage eating competition and a whole host of food stalls, including vegetarian options. Festival goers can also enjoy all the farm’s usual attractions. (Please note – this prize doesn’t include camping, travel or food)
Jimmy’s Farm Sausage and Beer Festival won a Festival Kidz Silver Award in 2014 if you want to know more see our review and this years factsheet.
WIN! A family ticket to 3 Wishes Faery Fest!
WIN! WIN! WIN!
A family ticket to 3 Wishes Faery Fest 19th-21st June 2015, Cornwall
WIN! A family ticket to Elderflower Fields!
WIN! WIN! WIN!
A family ticket to Elderflower Fields 22nd-25th May 2015, East Sussex
This competition has now closed.
Click here for further info about this fabulous family festival
WIN! A Family Ticket to Common People Festival
A Grand Day Out from the Bestival Team
We’ve teamed up with the Bestival crew to offer a family ticket to the first ever Common People; a brand new two-day metropolitan adventure, set in the leafy, green surrounds of Southampton Common. Put together with love by the acclaimed Bestival family, there will be lashings of the team’s unique magic, mayhem and merriment unifying party lovers across the south coast and beyond, for a truck load of bank holiday high jinx this 23rd & 24th May.
Common People’s stellar inaugural line-up features headliners Fatboy Slim and Grace Jones and fantastic music including De La Soul, Jaguar Skills, DJ Yoda, George the Poet, Plastic Mermaids,Funky Little Choir, and Mr Motivator on Saturday. And Clean Bandit,Band of Skulls, Years & Years,Kitty, Daisy & Lewis,Slaves,The Cuban Brothers, Craig Charles and West End Kids on Sunday.
Bestival’s creative team will be flexing their visionary muscles, taking the spirit of Bestival to the heart of Southampton, transforming the common into a world of wonder with a host of fantastical fun, daytime diversions, amusements and good times for one and all
With a host of some of the most exciting underground electronic music the world has to offer, Saturday will see Junk at the controls with sets from Dusky, Huxley, Wayze & Odyssey, Dense & Pika and more. And Switch take over on Sunday with Chicago house legend Derrick Carter, Seconcity, Rob da Bank, and more. We’ll also have Southampton’s illustrious Joiners adding to the mix in our news bands area the Uncommon Stage,and plenty more fun & games to boot.
All you have to do to win a family weekend ticket is follow the instructions below!
a Rafflecopter giveaway
Facebook: Facebook.com/commonpeoplefestival
Twitter: @cpeoplefest
Instagram: @commonpeoplefestival
Non-camping event
* Family tickets are for a maximum of two adults and two children aged 17 or under.
For more information please see our Factsheet on Common People.
TICKET INFO: For day or weekend tickets head to: ticketline.co.uk/common-people
WIN! A family ticket to Eden festival!
WIN! WIN! WIN!
A family ticket to Eden Festival
11th-14th June 2015, Scotland
Eden Festival is set in the stunning Raehill Meadows of Dumfries, Scotland, from the 11th-14th June. A boutique festival, with over 250 acts performing across 9 stages, bringing you live music, dance, cabaret, burlesque, circus skills, theatre, cinema, a children’s arena, healing space, fun and games and much more.
This years children’s arena they will be taking you under the sea to the land of make believe, swimming and surfing with sea creatures, sailing with pirates and flying with gulls.
Eden will have workshops for children to make pirate flags, fish masks, scuba packs and much more. The Forest Skills team will be leading woodland crafts and bushcraft skills, including campfire cooking and herb walks, and making jewellry, nature art and willow crafts.
The Toddlers Dome is also returning with books, toys and dressing up and on Saturday you can seek out clues for the lost treasure and on Sunday the kids will claim the festival site as their own, when they make some noise on the colourful parade.
We are giving one lucky the reader the chance to win a family ticket for four weekend passes to Eden Festival on 11th-14th June. Camping is included, must bring your own tent.
Best Family Festivals 2015
Tweet #BestFamilyFestivals2015
Here are our top picks for 2015!
Whether a festival is good for you depends on what music you’re into and what other things you like doing at festivals, as well as the age of your kids. If you are new to festivals with kids, you may want to read our guide to Choosing the right Family-Friendly Festival.
We have included our affiliate links in the listings – if you click “Buy Tickets Now” you will go straight to the ticket page for your chosen festival. You will not pay anything for this but the festival will give us a small commission to keep Festival Kidz up and running – so please use them!
Festival Workshops – junk4funk
junk4funk makes Musical Instruments out of rubbish such as pizza boxes and plastic bottles. junk4funk runs workshops in schools and festivals across the country, and would love to be involved in more.
I had the opportunity to interview the owner/director, who wishes to bring his mix of craft, music and recycling to more music festivals. Read more…
Families’ Choice Award 2014
Congratulations Lakefest!
This year we are giving out a new award – the Families’ Choice Award. This is awarded entirely based on the number of votes from our followers. We had an amazing response of nearly 600 votes, 276 of which were for our winning festival, LAKEFEST!
Congratulations to Lakefest!
In second place were the Fairyland Trust events – Fairy Fair and The Real Halloween, followed by Just So and Green Gathering tying for third place.