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If you are considered taking to the kids to a family friendly do love to try out all of the many family friendly festivals in the UK. I can’t imagine a year without planning a weekend of fresh air, glitter, magic, dancing …. oh and not forgetting lugging that festival trolley through an uneven woodland area! Here are a selection of BEST family friendly festivals 2024!
Best Family Festivals UK 2024: at Glance;
- Just So Festival
- Camp Bestival Shropshire
- Camp Bestival Dorset
- Kendall Calling
- Elderflower Fields
- Timber Festival
- The Big Feastival
- The Brit Fest Cheshire 2024
- Camp Kindling
- The Green Man Festival
- Gloworm Festival
- Trentham Live
- Nozstock 2024
- Latitude 2024
- Bluedot 2024
- Deer Shed Festival 2024
- Gone Wild with Bear Grylls Festival 2024
- The Long Road Festival
- Chagstock Festival
- Standon Calling Festival
- Shambala Festival
- Gone Wild Festival
Best family friendly music festivals
A family friendly music festival is a great opportunity to introduce the kids to live music and entertainment, not to mention street food, and family friendly outdoor activities, workshops and crafts!
We love any opportunity to throw out the routine, throw on the sequins and glitter, and dance the weekend away, and there are so many AMAZING family friendly festivals in the UK this year – you will be spoilt for choice.
We have listed the best family festivals in the UK for 2024 with a huge choice of outdoor activities, child friendly workshops, live music, shows and entertainments.
Wondering if you can survive a festival with little kids? Yes you absolutely can. Festivals are amazing with kids and provide a great opportunity to get the kids outside camping, dancing, practising circus skills and making flower garlands. There is so much on offer for kids of all ages. They will have the time of their lives.
The one piece of advice I could give you when attending a festival with kids, is to not be a slave to the programme. We often wander around aimlessly and I love it that way. I don’t get hung up on timings and possibly leaving areas that the kids are enjoying – just to get to the next destination.
Wondering what to pack for a festival? you may find this post on packing for a festival with kids helpful!
Best family friendly festival for kids
We have listed some of the BEST family friendly festivals in the UK for families for 2024. We will continue to update this post as news of the festivals kick in, and also if there are any cancellations. Do check with individual festivals for up to date information too.
If you have a campervan (you don’t need a Campervan to enjoy these festivals though!) then you may also love Awesome vanlife festivals in the UK
If you can’t make a family friendly festival this year, why not create your own kids’ festival themed party in the back garden!
Best Family festivals to take the kids in 2024
So without further ado, here is a list of the BEST family festivals to take the kids in 2024. We have listed the festivals in Month order.
Family festivals in the UK May 2024
Elderflower Fields – Sussex – The family festival 2024
24th to 27th May 2024
If you are looking for a wild weekend family adventure, with music, sports, nature and the arts, then head to Elderflower Fields.
Elderflower Fields is a small, safe and friendly family festival, designed especially for those with young children. The festival is all about spending time immersed in nature, letting kids be a little bit wild and free, and enjoying great food and the arts together with friends.
We loved Elderflower fields – read our review here
For prices and ticket availability for Elderflower Fields South
Festivals to take the kids – July
Timber Festival, The National Forest
5th, 6th 7th July 2024
Timber Festival is back for 2024 with new sounds, innovative ideas and a fresh energy! Jump into an incredible forest festival, with music, crafts, wellness workshops, and circus skills.
Read our Timber review 2019
The Brit Fest Cheshire 2024
5th 6th 7th July 2024
The Brit Fest is a celebration of all things British; music, culture, cars, food, drink, sports, entertainment and more!
Line up includes Scouting for girls, Fleur East, Paul Young, Bonnie Tyler, Kim Wilde, and Heather Small.
You will find food and drink, a vintage fairground, free family cinema, and the great British tea party and much more!
Noztock The Hidden Valley Festival
18th to 21st July 2024
Nozstock was founded by a fun-loving family and their friends and is now an established family event.
The festival’s ethos is about bringing play to everyone, in whatever form it can. Nozstock believes in the value of not only entertaining, but in participation and contribution. Nozstock The Hidden Valley is 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.
Bluedot Family Friendly Festival
Cancelled for 2024.
Chagstock Festival
Cancelled for 2024.
Standon Calling Festival
Cancelled for 2024.
Camp Bestival Dorset
25th to 28th July 2024
Camp Bestival is one of our favourite family festivals of all time and we first went in 2016 with our two girls (I was heavily pregnant!). There is so much to do for all the family and the line up for 2024 is EPIC!! Paloma Faith, McFly, Pete Tong, James Arthur and Sophie Ellis Bexter to name a few.
Expect loads of activities, including self portrait painting, rummage re fashion, silent disco, singing, skate boarding, space camp and much more!
Latitude Festival, Suffolk
25th – 28th July 2024
Head over to Latitude for a weekend of discovery set within the stunning surrounds of Henham Park. Let your curiosity guide you through the very best in music, dance, comedy, poetry, theatre, literature, podcasts, family activities and wellness.
The line-up includes Kasabian, Keane, Duran Duran, Nile Rogers and Chic, Rag n bone Man, and the Darkness.
Deer Shed family friendly festival
26th to 29th July 2024
Deer Shed festival is held at Baldersby park, Topcliffe, N Yorks and is back for 2024. There is so much for festival goers of all ages including amazing music, a comedy programme, talks, shows, theatre, cinema, morning raves, outdoor crafts, a spacey- science tent, workshops, sports, wellbeing, wild activities, a dedicated Under 5’s zone – and loads more!
Head over to Deer Shed to book your tickets.
BEST family friendly festivals in August
Kendall Calling, Lake District
1st to 4th August 2024
Kendall calling is a family friendly festival back for 2024, welcoming festival goers of all ages to the fields. There is plenty on offer too, from craft workshops, to live theatre shows, to giant inflatables! The line up includes Paolo Nutini, The Streets, Sugar Babes, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds and the Reytons.
The Green Man Festival
15th to 18th August 2024
The Green Man Festival is an independent music, science and arts festival held annually in the Brecon Beacons, Wales. People of all ages are welcome at Green Man and there’s a host of activities to keep them entertained all weekend! There is a children’s area for the tiniest of tots bursting with workshops, music and mischief. The teenage area has DJ workshops, fire shows, filmmaking fun, T-shirt designed and loads more. There are also a films, and yoga sessions and workshop zones for kids, teens and families.
For Tickets book here
Camp Bestival Shropshire
15th to 18th August 2024
Designed by families especially for families, Camp Bestival combines all the fun of a fantastic family camping holiday with everything you’d expect from an idyllic and action-packed festival adventure. The line up for 2024 is epic, with Faithless, Paloma Faith, McFly, The Magic Numbers and many more!
For the kids, Junior Jungle, Mister Maker, Mr Tumble and Big fish Little Fish will get the kids dancing away!
Expect loads of activities too including Roller rink dance classes, silent disco, Stand up paddleboarding, and big build woodland tribe plus much much more.
Read all about our weekend at Camp Bestival last year here!
Trentham Live, Staffordshire
15th to 18th August 2024
We visit Trentham gardens regularly with kids as it is a great Staffordshire day out with kids. Trentham Live is back with a great line-up of artists in a unique lakeside setting.
Thursday 15 August – to be confirmed
Friday 16 August – Jess Glynne supported by Sam Tompkins
Saturday 17 August – Manic Street Preachers
Sunday 18 August – Busted with Special Guests
Just So Festival, Rode Hall Cheshire
16th 17th 18th August 2024
Voted the best family friendly festival in the UK, Just So festival is a weekend mischief, mayhem, and magical moments creating memories to last a lifetime! This festival is perfect for younger children, and is bursting at the seams with music, performance, food fights, anarchic play, and imaginative worlds. There are no hidden costs – all the activities come at no extra cost.
Read why we love the Just So festival 2018 and what we thought of Just So festival 2019!
For tickets and prices for Just Ao Festival 2024
Camp Kindling
16th to 19th August 2024
Camp Kindling is described as a summer camp for families, with 100 magical activities included, and 50 amazing performances. With music including Dj Gok Wan, Junior Jungle, Dick And Dom out little festival goers will be dancing all night!
Activities include mountain boarding, lego robots, cheerleading, bug box building, quad biking, afrobeats dance and much much more!
For tickets, activities and ticket prices
Glowworm Festival 2024 – A family friendly festival for 2024
16th to 18th August 2024
This family friendly festival is a wonderful family festival set in the beautifully green Holme Pierrepont Country Park, Nottinghamshire. The Gloworm Festival is a 3 day Festival that has been especially created for grown ups and their little people.
The Gloworm Festival believe that children are the most important people in the world, which is why this event is aimed at families with Children aged 0-13, with plenty for teenagers and grown ups to enjoy too.
The Big Feastival, Cotswolds – the family friendly foodie festival
23rd to 25th August 2024
So if you are looking for an alternative to Glasto, but add in LOADS of delicious food, then head to the Big Feastival. The Big Feastival is held in a secluded Cotswolds farm.
The line up included Becky Hill, Ministry of Sound Classical, Ella Henderson, Jax Jones, Joel Corry, and the Cuban Brothers.
We headed to The Big Feastival with kids and LOVED it.
For Tickets and prices
Gone Wild Festival – Devon
22nd to 25th August 2024
The Gone Wild Festival is the ultimate family adventure with non-stop activities for all the family including paddleboarding, archery, adventure obstacle course, climbing, tree climbing and so much more!
If you have a budding adventurer then this festival is definitely for you!
Music includes James, The Feeling, Ocean colour Scene, and Sam Ryder (and much more!)
There is also a Gone Wild Festival in Norfolk too.
for more info and tickets
Shambala Festival
22nd to 25th August 2024.
Shambala is a wonderful family friendly festival taking places over the August Bank Holiday Weekend at a stunning secret country estate in Northamptonshire.
There is plenty on offer for families with a kids’ field jam packed with entertainment and activities. There are plenty of arts and crafts on offer and circus skills including hula hooping bike tracks and trampolines.The kids will love the sand pits, climbing areas, crazy golf, swinging chairs and fairground. And don’t forget the popular bedtime stories with cocoa in the Family Camping Yurt. There is also face painting, music making and toddler games and workshops making it an awesome family friendly festival for 2024.
For more information and tickets
The Long Road Festival
23rd to 25th August 2024
This festival was a sell out last year and returns at Stanford Hall, Leicestershire over the bank holiday weekend. This country music festival includes Russell Dickerson, American Aquarium, Andrew Combs, Angie K and Brown Horse amongst many others!
Expect a selection of U.S. inspired street food , alongside all your traditional festival favourites dotted across the whole site. Bring along the whole family for hot dog eating and hot wing contests, games of dodgeball or even a spot square dancing! For the littlest members of the crew, there is a full programme of activity over at Lil’ Possum County, including arts and crafts, ugly cake competitions, kids’ tractor racing and so much more.
For tickets and more information
Gone Wild Festival with Bear Grylls
8th to 11th August – Norfolk
The Gone Wild Festival is set to be an incredible family friendly festival for 2024 with some amazing outdoor activities! Think paddleboarding, archery, climbing, nerf combat, adventure obstacle course, fossils workshops and so much more. The Line-up is equally awesome with Sam Ryder, Ocean Colour Scene, The Feeling, and Jake Shears plus inspiring speakers including Bear Grylls, Sir Randolph Fiennes, and Mark Ormrod.
There is Gone Wild Festival in Devon too!
So there you have some of the BEST UK family friendly festival for 2024 to take the kids. Pack the glitter, flower garlands, bubble machines and dance the night away with your littles. Memories to last a lifetime!