The Best Family-Friendly Festivals In The UK 2023/2024
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Get your suncream out, there is a fantastic summer of music, food, comedy and so much more coming up in 2023 as the festival season starts in earnest.
Get your summer entertainment sorted with our guide to the UK's biggest and best family friendly festivals.
With fun for all the family including top music stars and kid-friendly fun, entertainment and activities these festivals will suit music lovers, craft fans and foodies alike.
Festivals, epecially festivals designed to appeal to the whole family, are fast becoming one of the most popular ways to spend your great British summer, so let's dive in and find the best kid friendly music festivals in the UK this summer!
Top Tip: Many of the biggest and most popular summer festivals in the UK sell out really fast - so it's best to get in early. Plus many of the festivals offer earlybird deals which can save you lots of money on your festival tickets.
- The Big Feastival
- CarFest
- Let's Rock Festivals
- Teddy Rocks
- Geronimo Festival
- Elderflower Fields
- The Big Retreat Festival
- Wychwood Festival
- Fantasy Forest
- Standon Calling
- Nozstock The Hidden Valley
- Camp Bestival Dorset
- Latitude
- Kendall Calling
- Wilderness Festival
- Camp Bestival Shropshire
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Date: 25th - 27th August 2023
Location: Alex James' Farm, near Kingham, Oxfordshire
This foodies delight, held annually at Blur bassist and cheesemaker Alex James' farm in the Cotswolds, and always features a stellar line-up of bands - after all Alex James has some pretty good contacts in the music industry!
For the kids there is fun from their favourite stars of kids TV and fim, plus animals, a funfair, crafts, tree climbing and much more.
This year you can see The Vaccines, Rick Astley, Example, Melanie C, Freya Ridings, Katy B, Baby Queen, Alice Merton, New Hope Club, The Cuban Brothers, Duke and DJ sets from Hot Chip and Faithless.
Date: 25th - 27th August 2023
Location: Laverstoke Park Farm, Hampshire
Created by TV and radio star Chris Evans, CarFest was founded to help raise funds for UK Children’s Charities. CarFest is now the largest family fundraising festival in the UK.
As well as bands and DJs guests include comedy stars, writers, cooks, actors and even Basil Brush!
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Date: May - August 2023
Location: Various
The Let's Rock festivals 15 family-friendly events across the UK with the best of 1980's artists. The line up is different at every gig, from Wales to Scotland, Belfast to the North East and Yorkshire to Berkshire.
Big names that you can see this year include T'Pau, Nik Kershaw, Boomtown Rats, Space, Janet Kay and OMD.
2024 Family Friendly Festivals
Here are the 2024 festivals that have already been announced.
Date: 3rd - 5th May 2024
Location: Charisworth Farm, Blandford, Dorset
The first family festival of the year, Teddy Rocks, is a family friendly event raising money for Teddy20, a children's cancer charity. You can camp on site in a tent and there are glamping options.
The music is an eclectic mix of rock, electro, acoustic, dubstep, drum and bass, and everything in between.
Date: Arley Hall 23rd - 26th May 2024
Location: Arley Hall, Northwich Cheshire
The Geronimo festival is the UK's largest festival for children - in fact, it is described as "Glastonbury for kids" and it features top kids TV stars and family friendly bands.
Plus all the family can have a go at arts, crafts, circus skills, animals, inflatables, science shows and masses more.
Date: 24th - 27th May 2024
Location: Ashdown Forest, East Sussex
Elderflower Fields is the perfect first festival for families with kids. With family friendly music acts and woods full of kids activities including skateboarding, climbing, slacklining, parkour and many more adrenaline pumping experiences.
The kids can chill out after all that exhilaration with Arts Camp, crafty activities, the brilliant science dome, silly sports and all hte family can refuel with the wonderful food and drink vendors.
Tickets are on sale, performers will be announced in the autumn.
Date: 24th - 27th May 2024
Location: Lawrenny, Pembrokeshire
Get back to nature in the wilds of West Wales. Reconnect with yourself, the people you love, and the things that simply make you smile. Have fun, nourish your soul, and restore your body.
Date: 31st May - 2nd June 2024
Location: Cheltenham Racecourse
The Wychwood festival is one of the UK's most popular kid-friendly festivals,with top name music acts plus majorettes, parades, silly sports, circus school and street theatre. It is know for it's friendly, homely atmosphere and top music line-up.
For all the family there is dance and arts workshops, a circus school and a programme of talks, debates and comedy for all ages.
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Date: 19th - 21st July 2024
Location: Sudeley Castle, Cheltenham
Fantasy Forest, the popular family-friendly festival, is a weekend packed full of lively entertainment, unique experiences, fantastic food and drink, and much more. Enjoy a magical weekend of fun, live music and entertainment at one of the Cotswold’s most well-known castle and grounds.
The full programme will be announced soon.
Date: 25th - 28th July 2024
Location: Standon Lordship, Hertfordshire
At Standon Calling you can expect a fun-filled plethora of daytime activities and performances for babies, kids and teens in dedicated spaces, as well as interwoven into the festival’s programming.
Date: 18th - 21st July 2024
Location: Rowden Paddocks, Bromyard, Herefordshire
A blissful family festival that caters to all ages with activities that little ones can enjoy, as well as entertainment for teens, students, seasoned festivalites, party-starters and grandparents.
With live performance, comedy, arts workshops, spoken word, games and after-dark, experimental cabaret, with a splash of late-night disco.
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Date: 25th - 28th July 2024
Location: Lulworth Castle, Dorset
Camp Bestival is the family friendly version of the grown-up Bestival festival and this one has as much for the adults as the kids, with headliners from the best of rock and pop as well as top DJs.
For the kids there is lots of entertainment for the including stage shows, vintage fairground rides plus lots more fun and games all over the site.
Date: 25th - 28th July 2024
Location: Henham Park, Suffolk
Latitude is one of the big daddies of the festival world, as famous for it's varied food selection and glamping tents as for it's top name line of big name music acts.
For younger kids there is a dedicated area with country activites, while 12-16 year olds can enter another world of music, media, technology, fashion, wildlife survival skills and assault courses suspended in the trees.
Date: 1st - 4th August 2024
Location: Lowther Deer Park, Lake District
This family oriented festival held in the picturesque Lake District features a stellar lineup of bands across four stages, along with a beer festival, cinema and disco.
There are a whole host of activities for children of all ages, including yoga, theatre shows, inflatables, circus workshops face painting and more!
Date: 2st - 4th August 2024
Location: Cornbury Park, Oxfordshire
Wilderness is a four-day boutique festival spanning Music, The Arts, Food and Wellbeing, all set amidst the idyllic surroundings of Cornbury Park, Oxfordshire.
The mix of music, crafts and kids activities make it perfect for families.
Date: 15th - 18th August 2024
Location: Weston Park, Shropshire
The second leg of the popular Camp Bestival Festival which is all about spending time together with your loved ones and a host of like-minded families, playing, dancing, relaxing and exploring in the glorious outdoors, while getting to watch the best music, theatre, comedy, and all manner of jaw-dropping spectacles.
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