Sun and Moon Festival

Sun and Moon Festival – The Family Wellbeing Festival

14th - 21st August 2016, Plumpton College, East Sussex (South Downs)

Early Bird Tickets available until the end of March.

The Sun and Moon festival ​is known as a 'family wellbeing festival', and with literally hundreds of workshops, classes and activities for both adults and children, it delivers on all levels.

Based in Plumpton College on the South Downs, this location brings the event other advantages, as the organiser Scott Doane explains:

"We have actual buildings as well as nature here. There’s camping yes, but there are also bedrooms, indoor showers, toilets, and more importantly for us – 17 workshops rooms. We’ll convert these into dance studios, yoga and Pilates studios, and other rooms for running the huge number of wellbeing workshops we’ll have going on".

Scott expects ​​there to be something ​​in the region of 400 activities, classes and workshops over the week-long festival period. Being an agricultural college, this remains a very rural and natural setting. There is an animal care center with birds of prey, reptiles and all sorts of animals – something the children coming to the festival will be able to enjoy hugely - with daily visits and animal feeding courtesy of the college.

Scott’s keen to stress the festival’s family aspect: "We aim to have at least 20 different activities for children each day - ranging from football and tennis and climbing, to dance, music and artistic upcycling – and everything in between".

Musically, the festival delivers a diverse (& divine) program, with acts performing across lunchtimes and in the evenings.

A week might seem a long time to spend at a festival, but with so much going on, it might just seem too short as well! The whole concept, in fact, can be viewed more like an activity holiday than a festival. With only 500 people anticipated at the event, it's like you gathered all your friends and family together and decided to spend a week doing everything you possibly could related to wellbeing.

What about prices? Well, festival entry and camping for a week comes in at £160. When you consider this is for a full week, and that many of the sessions at the event would cost £40/£60 on their own - then it starts to look like pretty amazing value. And if you book before the end of March, you get the early bird rate of only £130. Now that’s a good deal.

Rooms and full catering cost a bit more, of course. You can go for the luxury festival version - your own bedroom, 3 incredibly delicious meals per day (vegan, vegetarian & meat options at each meal) and endless workshops to indulge in and learn from - or camp and go self-catering. Both options result in a tremendous week of wellbeing and fun.