Name: Shambala Festival 2025
Start: 2025-08-21
End: 2025-08-23
Location: a secret location near Market Harborough

Shambala Festival 2025

Thursday 21st to Saturday 23rd August 2025
a secret location near Market Harborough, Northampton, Northamptonshire, England MAP
not yet on sale

Daily capacity: 15,000

Last updated: Mon 26th Aug 2024

This great family friendly festival promises four days of fun, with a large kids area, masses of workshops, woodland antics, crazy carnivals, roaming theatrics, and everyone in fancy dress. There's no separate arena from the campsite, and there's no restriction on alcohol.

This year's Shambala will be held at a secret location on Bank Holiday Weekend from Thursday 21st until Sunday 23rd August 2025 with the site usuall closing on Monday at Midday.

The festival is expected to have 44 separate areas ranging from music, to poetry, yoga, dance, and a whole lot more.

Line-up

No acts have been confirmed for 2025 yet.

Tickets

Tickets are not yet on sale.

In order to convince more visitors to ditch the car and join by bike, coach or train a 'sustainable travel package' will be priced £30 cheaper than a general entry ticket at all tier levels.

Visitors will again be given the option to make a 'Pay it Forwards' donation, a;; of which will be used to create full access packages for those on low incomes in the local area.

Recycling Deposit

Shambaholics are expcted to be charged a refundable deposit of £10 per booking. Simply exchange a bag of recycling at the event for £10 cash or a festival pack!

Vegetarian

Shambala 2023 was fully-vegetarian with what is offered from the trader stalls. Attendees were welcome to bring their own food to cook for themselves.Expect the 2024 edition to follow a similar 'policy'.

Bottled-water-free festival

Instead of being able to buy bottles of water festival goers are being asked to bring a reusable bottle which they can refill with free filtered water available at all of bars on site. Festival organisers enthusiastically predict this will reduce waste by an estimated 10,000 plastic bottles.

This year Shambala are also offering 'bottles for life' from their ticket page.

Green credentials

In 2023 the festival hoped to once again be 100% powered by renewable energy, by the wind, sun, waste veg oil and pedalling! Lot's more eco initiatives are expected to be on site too.

Kids activities

Each year Shambala offers a wealth of kids activities with a full and diverse program of activities for all ages, such as trampolines, inflatables, music workshops, circus skills, art tent with full programme each day, play equipment and swing-boats, festival newspaper team, puppet shows, cinema, co-operative games, a kitchen academy, DJing, magic, and even a bedtime story tent. Many activities will have themes around cultural awareness, and the environment.