Tuesday, 17 January 2023 15:33

The Big Retreat Festival: get your outdoor fix!

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Your next outdoor festival fix is waiting for you this June with The Big Retreat Festival (1-4 June). 

With over 300 carefully curated attractions, this Festival is set in a forest iddle, just off the Pembrokeshire coast.  Dedicated to wellness it offers over 300 carefully curated attractions including a plethora of outdoor experiences. 

Big Retreat

Learn how to whittle a spoon from a tree trunk or acquire foraging and bushcraft skills from leading experts in the field.  If you’re looking for personal inspiration, then huddle around the camp fire and listen to heart-warming tales from the UK’s leading adventurers and sports men and women.  Learn how to paddleboard in the beautiful Cleddau Estuary or take a wild swim with Cath Pendleton, the Merthyr Mermaid and Ice Swimmer.  Get to know the Pembrokeshire National Park via guided nature walks or go bird watching with the urban birder, David Lindo.  Feeling creative?  Sign up for the environmental art programme where you’ll make art out of nature.  Whether it’s earth energy talks or exercising your green fingers in the gardening sessions, there’s plenty to get your teeth into.  Prices start from £65 pp for one day to £220 pp for a weekend camping ticket.  Find out more: The Big Retreat Festival 

Organiser and Founder, Amber Lort-Phillips, says: "Tickets are selling fast and we can't wait to make more memories, laugh lots, try new things and soak up some much-needed positive energy.  Healing vibes are rooted in the festival's enriched site here in Pembrokeshire as it was once a peaceful retreat for people to escape to after WWII and recover.  We're all seeking calm as we battle through our daily struggles so will welcome this soothing power, enhanced by the fantastic line-up and record number of artists booked."