FreeSpirit Community Summer Camp

Wednesday 31st July to Monday 5th August 2024

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Redwood Rare Breeds Farm, Wanstrow (near Frome), Somerset, UK

Heartfelt Creative Community

Be part of an immersive community experience

Five days of living close to nature, drumming, dancing, singing, making music, being creative, children playing, working together, cooking, celebrating ourselves, one another and life…

…and simply pottering around the field relaxing with new friends and old.

At FreeSpirit Camp, we believe that community is everything. We offer an inspiring and creative opportunity for people of all ages to live and celebrate community.

One of the unique elements of our camp is its small and intimate size, meaning you'll get to know everyone and feel part of the community within the first moments of arriving.

It’s the perfect opportunity to relax, unwind and immerse yourself in the uplifting experience of co-creative community living.

There will be an exciting range of workshops in drumming, dance, creative arts and healing. There will also be evening events, as well as ample time for spontaneous happenings to arise throughout the camp.

Join a wonderful gathering of kind, caring, generous, and free-spirited souls who share your values.

Our camp is a place for people who care about community and the environment, who have a deep appreciation for the wonders of life, and who love getting involved and being part of a co-creative community.

If you feel at home amongst kind, generous, and wholesome people, and enjoy camping, sharing food, warm fires, and starry skies, then FreeSpirit Community Summer Camp is the perfect place for you.

Come and join us in making the magic of FreeSpirit!!

The Experience…

  • Deeply Human Experience

    It’s hard to put into the words the richness, quality of experience or sense of togetherness that comes forth at FreeSpirit camp. We feel the community experience is such an important part of what makes us feel alive and fulfilled as human beings, and without it, we are often missing something.

  • Yearning for Connection

    Increasingly we experience our lives as stressful, disconnected from nature, isolating, competitive and even in some cases lacking in meaning. Many of us have a deep yearning for contact, support, community, harmony with nature and the simple pleasure of friendship. When all this and much more is found in the camp environment a very profound transformation can occur. It is not just that we relax and 'chill out', it often feels as if a new (or perhaps an older) way of being is experienced.

  • We Need Community

    When we feel connected and seen, loved and appreciated, involved and included, supported and nurtured, we experience a deeper connection to ourselves and a remembering of who we are. We are social creatures wired for connection and often feel most alive when we are both deeply rooted in ourselves and feeling held within community.

  • Profound Healing

    There is profound healing that comes from this camp and how we approach the community experience. It can be heart-opening, soul-nurturing, wisdom-revealing or simply a great way to meet new people and feel a part of something that is positive and good for all involved. People tend to relax, open up and connect in ways that can seem rare in today's society.

  • The Perfect Balance

    We have a great deal of experience running these camps. They are a perfect balance of organisation and free-flowing spontaneity. We bring people together in a very real & accessible way. You will feel welcomed and encouraged to be part of the community from the moment you arrive, to both bring yourself forth and relax into the support and hold of a co-creative community vibe.

  • Simplicity & Togetherness

    Perhaps with only the thin material of a tent or a van between one person and the next, and between ourselves and the earth, we realise the values of simplicity and togetherness. The closeness between people seems to develop very quickly. It is not easy to hide or be superficially pleasant in this environment, so many people say they feel more real, more themselves, and more able to take risks. With so many new friendships easily emerging.

  • Another Way

    FreeSpiirt camp gives all kinds of ideas about how things could be different in how we choose to live our lives. How we can take care of ourselves, be more community oriented and come back to our connection with the earth and how we care for the environment that we live in.

  • Transformation

    The camps, at their best, offer a space for all of us to feel safe to push our edges and boundaries, and to become more than who we thought we were, to discover aspects of ourselves that we didn't know about. They also offer a great learning space for kids.

What’s Included In Your Ticket…

  • Community Gatherings

    Our interactive morning gatherings, bring everyone together and help create the flow and dynamic of the camp - offering support, inspiring the daily activity and helping organise the camp, e.g. building fires, helping in the kitchen, running a workshop. Many people find the community aspect of the camp to be one of the most powerful attractions.

  • Music, Dance & Celebration

    We offer a range of amazing adult workshops offered by both professional facilitators and participants of the camp e.g. Drumming, Yoga, Dance, Singing, Gong Baths, Yoga Class Improv Theatre, to Storytelling. It's about singing without having to know the words, and dancing however you want to dance.

  • Children's Activities

    An encouraging and safe environment to inspire creative play and independence in children - to make friends, explore and play. We also provide activities like wide games, arts & crafts, bushcraft & wood whittling.

  • Open Programme

    Our inclusive open programme - not only does it have a range of amazing workshops - but also has plenty of free space for anyone to offer and share their passion, practice, wisdom or gifts.  Resulting in a diverse range of creative, playful, informative and healing workshops.

  • Co-creative Community

    At the camp, the community experience is central to the theme. We will eat together, gather around the fire together and look after the camp together, living as a community.

  • Evening Meals

    Our exceptionally tasty and generous vegan and veggie evening meals, bring everyone together, cooked with love by the many hands of the camp. We also offer a suitable children's menu. (find out more)

  • Great Spaces

    A great selection of spaces to meet, hang out and share as well as all the facilities to make your experience warm, dry, comfortable and easy. (find out more)

  • Wood Fire Sauna

    The perfect way to relax and feel deeply cleansed. Enjoy the health & wellness benefits related to the sauna. (find out more)

  • The Land

    The camp is held within the rolling hills of the Somerset countryside on a luscious flat green field on a beautiful piece of land. There are views on one side and woodland on the other, with plenty of space for you to wander around the vast natural landscape with woodlands and lakes. (find out more)

  • Redwoods Rare Breeds Farm

    Set out in the middle in the Mendips, Somerset, between Bruton, Frome, and Shepton Mallet. Redwood Rare Breeds Farm is home to a large selection of rare breed farm animals as well as a farm shop that houses locally sourced fine quality foods.

For People Who…

  • Care about community and the environment

  • Have a deep appreciation for the wonders of life

  • Love getting involved and being a part of a co-creative community

  • Feel at home amongst kind, generous and wholesome people

  • Enjoy camping, sharing food, warm fires and starry skies

  • Are inspired by an assortment of creative, healing & educational workshops

  • Yearn for more time in nature and community 

 Accommodation

Lots of people love the close-to-nature feel of camping, however, if that is not for you, we have a few other accommodation options and a dedicated field for campervans that overlooks a stunning lake. (find out more)

In Their Words…