Join us from Friday 21st to the 23rd June 2024 for the eighth Yestival, a celebration of ideas and inspiration with trailblazing, seed-planting and change-making speakers, outdoor workshops and a sense of adventure designed to set you on a new path.
Set in Lincolnshire at the Big Sky Hideaway, a renewables-powered camping farm, Yestival is a gathering of stories where everyone is welcome and respected. The idea of fulfilling our potential is the aim and it’s the perfect setting to enjoy an outdoorsy weekend alongside making new friends, hatch new plans, recharge and (re)ignite every seed of positivity you've ever felt.
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Yestival is a celebration of community, positive mindset and adventurous thinking.
Hidden away behind a screen of woodland in the Lincolnshire countryside, Yestival is a weekend full of talks, workshops, walks, discussions and games during the day, then inspirational lectures, a bit of comedy and chilled out music at night. This is a festival with an emphasis on discovery, inspiration and discussion, rather than drinking and partying.
Our motto, SayYesMore, is a reminder of human potential and our power to make it count. We're also really proud to be the UK's first ever single-use plastic free festival, and we've managed this three years in a row now. Everything's possible if you think a little differently and have a group of good, supportive people around.
We look forward to seeing you in June!
As well as our standard Yestival tickets we take donations to go towards Kindness of Strangers tickets, for folks who would love to come to the festival but can’t afford it. If you know someone who would benefit from a Kindness of Strangers ticket please let us know
Our Yestival photographers, Anna Pumer and Todd Lawton are BRILLIANT!
“Yestival was and is beyond words. So much has come out of it. It’s just mind blowing!”
A note for Families and Parents: There is NO DreamCamp this year
Camp Yestival is a much smaller affair than the Yestivals of the past. We have a brand new site to enjoy and are slowly re-growing our team after the pandemic. While children are welcome we won’t have a dedicated programme (or catering) for tiny humans and therefore we’re not going to be offering children’s tickets.
We’ll be concentrating on talks and events geared towards adults and we’d naturally love you to be able to enjoy and focus fully on your Yestival experience at the same time as respecting the time and energy dedicated by our speakers.
Why are we doing this? Beyond the lack of bandwidth to provide for kids this year, Yestival has always provided the running costs for SayYesMore, and with far fewer tickets this year we need to maximise the return, hence keeping tickets all the same price. We’re still rebuilding after the pandemic.
We don’t take this decision lightly, kids have always been a big part of previous Yestivals but we’re ready to try something a bit different this year. We asked the advice of the parents on our wider team of volunteers, and they all said they’d still come to Yestival, and in some ways it would be a good excuse to find babysitters!
Talking of babies, we’re more than happy for really little ones to come along with the understanding that if they’re feeling grizzly and vocal you take them off away from any talks going on, for the sake of everyone’s enjoyment. Babies are of course free of charge before they’re properly running (if they can properly run, this may not be the right festival for them and the other guests).
Thanks so much for understanding our position. We hope parents can still find a way to come along.
Get a feel for the Yestival vibe through last year’s photos
THE FIELD OF DREAMS
Check out this 8min film made about Yestival 2016 by the amazingly talented Ben Arthur.
FROM YES TO YESTIVAL: THE BACKGROUND STORY
Since Dave Cornthwaite turned his personal SayYesMore motto into a wider enterprise in 2012 it remained an organic, positive idea.
People began to act on the message, heading out and achieving adventures, starting businesses, quitting jobs (that they hated), fixing things, simplifying their lives. They’d often send in images wearing SayYesMore shirts in epic places.
At the beginning of Summer 2015, Dave decided that rather than take on an adventure of his own, he’d remain in the UK and see how many of his Facebook audience he could turn into real friends.
And thus the SayYesMore Summer Series was born. Once or twice a week Dave would invite people to take a train out of London, spend time with a group of strangers and camp out under the stars. They came, in their hundreds!
Yestival is a celebration of this Summer’s success and a chance to have one big campout before the Winter sets in.
The Yestival Philosophy
Designed around the SayYesMore ethos of creating small lifestyle choices that add up to big changes, Yestival 2018 was our fourth big event, and an opportunity for a community of like-minded, driven people to come together in order to investigate options for personal and social positive change.
With a host of speakers, talks, activities and seminars covering topics as diverse as adventure, finding work we love, kindness, bravery, community building, freedom, environment and passion projects, it was a celebration of over four hundred people in a little field near London for a weekend of camping and life-changing discussion.
This wasn't a music festival, although there were plenty of tunes in the evenings. And it wasn’t a drinking festival either - it was a chance to take things to the next step while surrounded by nature, good people, and a determination to break down fears and make the most of life, regardless of what's happened in the past.