Treehouse Festival – Eco Building and traditional skills festival In Norfolk UK

10th to the 15th of August 2026 | Creating Community and Learning Forgotten Skills

What is Treehouse Festival?

Creating a community for a week and learning and teaching traditional and forgotten crafts and skills.

Treehouse Festival is a week-long event of green fields camping around an Iron Age round house. You’ll have the opportunity to learn skills that you would never normally get the chance to have a go at. You will be part of the preparation and the eating of delicious vegetarian and vegan meals – often using locally-sourced ingredients. You can get involved in crafts, talks, eco building projects, live acoustic music nights and camp fires.

Skills:
There are no ‘demonstrations’, every workshop is interactive and gives you the opportunity to get your hands dirty and have a go. From blacksmithing to green woodworking, glass blowing to weaving, you can come and spend an hour or the whole week mastering skills with the opportunity to continue on when you get back home. You can take home your creations. People have made everything from baskets to swords!
There is no extra cost to have a go, it’s all included when you buy the ticket.

Community:
There are only 100 tickets available for Treehouse Festival because we believe small is beautiful. The community is created by preparing food together, working on a big project or sitting around a camp fire and this is a big part of what makes Treehouse so great. Ideas are shared, skills are taught and laughs are had.

The week is entirely catered for and the price of the food is included when you buy the ticket. Everyone is part of the cooking and washing up.

Eco building:
The festival came from a community of people creating a big Treehouse in an old oak tree, afterwards came an Iron Age roundhouse – all made from skills we had learnt at the festival and materials we had gathered from nearby fields (or skips!). Each year is the opportunity to be part of a big building project using hand tools to create an eco-structure. Something that will stay put and become a location for a craftsperson for future years of Treehouse Festival.

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Why is it called “Treehouse”?

The Festival grew out of a group of friends deciding to build a real treehouse in their spare time. Every summer they’d spend a week or so camping out at Brandon House Farm, working on the treehouse’s spiral staircase, its balcony, or its roof. More friends came along to join in–after all, it sounded pretty fun. Eventually even more friends came, who didn’t particularly want to build but wanted to enjoy the camping and community spirit that quickly became something very special.

Soon, the week of camping became its own entity, while the magnificent tree house continued to be built and thus the Treehouse Festival was born.

Sadly, the treehouse–made by young people in their own time, with their own initiative; created from entirely recycled materials, a long way from anywhere; that had engendered a sense of community and a can-do attitude in countless young people–was ordered to be removed by the South Norfolk Council.

Rather than mourn its loss and change the name of the Festival, we decided to keep the name and let the Festival be a celebration of our departed treehouse, and the special community spirit it brought us.

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Everything else you need to know

When is the 2026 Treehouse Festival?
Dates for the next Treehouse Festival are 10th of August to 15th of August 2026. You are welcome to arrive after 3pm on Sunday the 9th of August, but catering and workshops don’t start until the morning of Monday the 10th.

Treehouse Festival will finish at the end of the 10th of August, but you are welcome to stay until the Sunday morning and there will be a simple breakfast available.

What is the cost?
EARLY BIRD: It’s £250.00 per person for 16-25 year olds and then £349.00 per person for everyone aged 26 and over. £125 for children 6 to 15 and £75 below that. This includes access to all workshops, and a fully catered week of food! The only cost is if you want to buy a drink from the bar or a fancy coffee and cake from the café. Early Bird pricing will finish in January.

Can I pay in instalments?
Yes. This is available on the final page of the booking form with ‘ClearPay’ (not affiliated with us), which allows you to spread the cost over 4 instalments. Its interest free unless you are late with payments.

What if I need directions?
There is a detailed directions page

What do I need to bring?
There is a page with everything you need to bring. This also gets emailed out when you book in.

Are children welcome?
Yes, children and families are very welcome. In fact, there are forest school style workshops available for children of various ages which take place each morning.

What about for children under 5?
Children under 5 are welcome in our forest school workshops with an accompanying adult.

What about teenagers?
We have found that young people usually choose to get involved in the crafts by the time they feel they’ve out grown the forest school provision.

How old do you have to be to access the crafts?
Every craft is different but most are either ‘all age with supervision from your grown up’ or 12 years and over.

Is it vegan-friendly?
Yes! All of our meals are vegetarian and many of them will be vegan too. There is always a vegan option.

Are pets allowed?
Treehouse happens on a working farm so generally dogs are not allowed. If you want to bring any other pet along then please email us to see if we can accommodate them.

How much do workshops and materials cost?
These are all included in the ticket price. You could spend an hour learning to thatch or spin wool, or you could get really into it and spend the whole week there. The choice is yours! There’ll be materials and equipment on sale at Root and Branch (our shop and resource centre) so that you can carry on your new found passion at home.

What if I want to relax for a bit and just read about traditional crafts and skills?
Then we have you covered. We have an extensive library of books all about crafts and skills which you can read during the week and even borrow after Treehouse is over (as long as you promise to return them). The library catalogue is here.

Are there any evening entertainments?
Yes there are. In previous years we’ve had bat walks, sea shanty singing around the campfire and bioluminescence tours. There’s also a quiz night, a band night and an open mic night. There’s a bar which serves local beers and other drinks every evening.

Do you accept cards onsite?
Yes! You can pay with card or cash at the shop, the café or the bar.

Do I have to do washing up/food prep etc.?
Yes, but you can choose what you do! The festival isn’t like other festivals. We are creating a community of people that are living, learning and creating together. Chopping vegetables or scrubbing pans is an important part of the experience and the bonding of the group. Believe us when we tell you that washing up is much more fun when you do it as part of a group.

Can I bring a caravan, campervan or similar?
Yes, that’s fine. We encourage interesting and magical caravans, if you have one. There isn’t any electricity or water hookup directly, though there are taps nearby.

Are there showers and toilets?
Most certainly! There are lots of toilets including composting ones, fancy wedding type toilets and disabled toilets. There are sinks with running water also. There are hot showers and pretty much never a queue! All of the water onsite is drinking water.

Can I hire a yurt or bell tent, does it come with a bed… and fancy lights… and electricity?
We are exploring the idea of offering bell tents and yurts that are setup when you arrive. If you are interested in this, there is a box you can tick on the booking page and we will be in touch. We do not yet know of the pricing for this but will post here when we know.

Can I get a refund?
Refunds are only available if we have a waiting list and can reallocate the ticket, and if it’s up to 4 months before the event starts. You will incur a 10% fee if we are able to reallocate. For more info. see the Terms and Conditions

Can I sell my ticket?
If you wish to sell or buy your ticket, to or from a third party, please ensure that you speak to us to transfer over name and allergen information before any money is exchanged – we don’t want anyone to be scammed by fake tickets.

Can I come for just the weekend?
To encourage the community to truly grow together over the week, we’ve decided that the weekend tickets weren’t the best way forwards. We want to create a crafting village filled with friends, and that takes time to nurture. If you want to visit rather than stay all week then drop us an email, we might be able to help!

Can I get a free ticket for volunteering?
Yes we often need people who have skills in plumbing, carpentry or general problem solving or those who are organised and good at spreadsheets! To get a free ticket you will need to be available from the setup days until the end of packdown and of course the week of the event itself. There are sometimes opportunities to pay half and not be there for setup/packdown or working during the week. Get in touch if you’d be interested – info@treehousefestival.co.uk

What is the camping, toilets, showers, kitchen etc. like?
We’ve created a handy page to give you a quick look around the facilities which you can find here.

Where can I find the boring legal stuff?
All terms and conditions, including policies, can be found here: Terms and Conditions. This is liable to grow as we add new policies. The T’s & C’s are the same as on the Ticket Booking.