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🌟 Adventurers, it’s the news we’ve all been waiting for... JUST SO IS BACK IN 2026! 🌟

We can’t wait to welcome you back to the magical world of Just So! For three glorious days, escape the ordinary and step into a fantastical celebration where anything is possible.

Get Friday 21 - Sunday 23 August 2026 in your calendar and set those countdowns running. Only 465 days to go...

🎟 Pre-sale tickets go on sale on bank holiday Monday 26th May exclusively for mailing list subscribers! Make sure you're signed up to grab yours before anyone else – and at the cheapest price. Join the mailing list via our link in bio!

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Say hello to our new areas for Just So 2026! 🌞

We’ve been squirrelled away for over a year, dreaming up, sketching out, and delightfully reimagining what Just So will be next summer! We’ve taken all the bits we adore about Just So and cooked up a new layout, full of brand new areas as well as some old favourites (with a twist).

The festival will unfold across 13 different areas, grouped together into four Just So neighbourhoods:

🎉 Hoo Ha - The joyous central hub of Just So! Come together to eat, dance, and celebrate.

🎨 Craftivism - A place for making, creating and learning, full of curiosity and experimentation.

🌊 Shifting Sands - Meet us by the lake at this place of strange and ridiculous ritual, home to a quite spectacular party!

✨ The Spellbound Forest - A beloved and magical part of Just So, with curious characters and whispered tales.

We'll be sharing more details about each of these new areas in the coming days, so stay tuned Adventurers! x

#JustSoFestival #FamilyFestival

Say hello to our new areas for Just So 2026! 🌞

We’ve been squirrelled away for over a year, dreaming up, sketching out, and delightfully reimagining what Just So will be next summer! We’ve taken all the bits we adore about Just So and cooked up a new layout, full of brand new areas as well as some old favourites (with a twist).

The festival will unfold across 13 different areas, grouped together into four Just So neighbourhoods:

🎉 Hoo Ha - The joyous central hub of Just So! Come together to eat, dance, and celebrate.

🎨 Craftivism - A place for making, creating and learning, full of curiosity and experimentation.

🌊 Shifting Sands - Meet us by the lake at this place of strange and ridiculous ritual, home to a quite spectacular party!

✨ The Spellbound Forest - A beloved and magical part of Just So, with curious characters and whispered tales.

We'll be sharing more details about each of these new areas in the coming days, so stay tuned Adventurers! x

#JustSoFestival #FamilyFestival

Say hello to our new areas for Just So 2026! 🌞

We’ve been squirrelled away for over a year, dreaming up, sketching out, and delightfully reimagining what Just So will be next summer! We’ve taken all the bits we adore about Just So and cooked up a new layout, full of brand new areas as well as some old favourites (with a twist).

The festival will unfold across 13 different areas, grouped together into four Just So neighbourhoods:

🎉 Hoo Ha - The joyous central hub of Just So! Come together to eat, dance, and celebrate.

🎨 Craftivism - A place for making, creating and learning, full of curiosity and experimentation.

🌊 Shifting Sands - Meet us by the lake at this place of strange and ridiculous ritual, home to a quite spectacular party!

✨ The Spellbound Forest - A beloved and magical part of Just So, with curious characters and whispered tales.

We'll be sharing more details about each of these new areas in the coming days, so stay tuned Adventurers! x

#JustSoFestival #FamilyFestival

Say hello to our new areas for Just So 2026! 🌞

We’ve been squirrelled away for over a year, dreaming up, sketching out, and delightfully reimagining what Just So will be next summer! We’ve taken all the bits we adore about Just So and cooked up a new layout, full of brand new areas as well as some old favourites (with a twist).

The festival will unfold across 13 different areas, grouped together into four Just So neighbourhoods:

🎉 Hoo Ha - The joyous central hub of Just So! Come together to eat, dance, and celebrate.

🎨 Craftivism - A place for making, creating and learning, full of curiosity and experimentation.

🌊 Shifting Sands - Meet us by the lake at this place of strange and ridiculous ritual, home to a quite spectacular party!

✨ The Spellbound Forest - A beloved and magical part of Just So, with curious characters and whispered tales.

We'll be sharing more details about each of these new areas in the coming days, so stay tuned Adventurers! x

#JustSoFestival #FamilyFestival

Say hello to our new areas for Just So 2026! 🌞

We’ve been squirrelled away for over a year, dreaming up, sketching out, and delightfully reimagining what Just So will be next summer! We’ve taken all the bits we adore about Just So and cooked up a new layout, full of brand new areas as well as some old favourites (with a twist).

The festival will unfold across 13 different areas, grouped together into four Just So neighbourhoods:

🎉 Hoo Ha - The joyous central hub of Just So! Come together to eat, dance, and celebrate.

🎨 Craftivism - A place for making, creating and learning, full of curiosity and experimentation.

🌊 Shifting Sands - Meet us by the lake at this place of strange and ridiculous ritual, home to a quite spectacular party!

✨ The Spellbound Forest - A beloved and magical part of Just So, with curious characters and whispered tales.

We'll be sharing more details about each of these new areas in the coming days, so stay tuned Adventurers! x

#JustSoFestival #FamilyFestival

🌞 The first Just So programme announcement has landed! 🌞

Last summer we pressed pause for a rare year off after 15 years of Just So - to reimagine, reinvent, and dream. We’ve spent the past year creating a whole immersive world for you to step into, and we can't wait to share it with you!

We’ve got incredible music headliners, storytelling around the crackling embers of the campfire, enthralling theatre and performance, relaxing yoga and wellbeing sessions, hands-on craft workshops, and new Just So traditions.

Take a look at our link in bio for a taster of what’s to come in 2026!

MUSIC: @hyde_family_jam @klonkmusic @kingzepha
STORYTELLING: @ian.douglas.125 @magic_lantern_shadows
THEATRE & PERFORMANCE: @festivalofthrift @dizzyodare @ascensiondanceuk @pizzey_ @alison_duddle
YOGA & WELLBEING: @movewithruthie

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3 months to go! Not being dazzled by the delights of Just So in 2025 has made us even more impatient to get back to the absurd, where the impossible leaves you at the gate ✨

Expect joyful play, vibrant music, breathtaking circus, captivating performances, and glittering magic round every corner 👀

A selection of photos from over the years, special shoutout to the owl in waiting….we’re about to have a hoot!

🌞 Fri 21 - Sun 23 August 2026
📍Rode Hall Estate, Cheshire
🎟 Final tickets on sale now

#JustSoFestival #FamilyFestival #JustSoBack

3 months to go! Not being dazzled by the delights of Just So in 2025 has made us even more impatient to get back to the absurd, where the impossible leaves you at the gate ✨

Expect joyful play, vibrant music, breathtaking circus, captivating performances, and glittering magic round every corner 👀

A selection of photos from over the years, special shoutout to the owl in waiting….we’re about to have a hoot!

🌞 Fri 21 - Sun 23 August 2026
📍Rode Hall Estate, Cheshire
🎟 Final tickets on sale now

#JustSoFestival #FamilyFestival #JustSoBack

3 months to go! Not being dazzled by the delights of Just So in 2025 has made us even more impatient to get back to the absurd, where the impossible leaves you at the gate ✨

Expect joyful play, vibrant music, breathtaking circus, captivating performances, and glittering magic round every corner 👀

A selection of photos from over the years, special shoutout to the owl in waiting….we’re about to have a hoot!

🌞 Fri 21 - Sun 23 August 2026
📍Rode Hall Estate, Cheshire
🎟 Final tickets on sale now

#JustSoFestival #FamilyFestival #JustSoBack

3 months to go! Not being dazzled by the delights of Just So in 2025 has made us even more impatient to get back to the absurd, where the impossible leaves you at the gate ✨

Expect joyful play, vibrant music, breathtaking circus, captivating performances, and glittering magic round every corner 👀

A selection of photos from over the years, special shoutout to the owl in waiting….we’re about to have a hoot!

🌞 Fri 21 - Sun 23 August 2026
📍Rode Hall Estate, Cheshire
🎟 Final tickets on sale now

#JustSoFestival #FamilyFestival #JustSoBack

3 months to go! Not being dazzled by the delights of Just So in 2025 has made us even more impatient to get back to the absurd, where the impossible leaves you at the gate ✨

Expect joyful play, vibrant music, breathtaking circus, captivating performances, and glittering magic round every corner 👀

A selection of photos from over the years, special shoutout to the owl in waiting….we’re about to have a hoot!

🌞 Fri 21 - Sun 23 August 2026
📍Rode Hall Estate, Cheshire
🎟 Final tickets on sale now

#JustSoFestival #FamilyFestival #JustSoBack

3 months to go! Not being dazzled by the delights of Just So in 2025 has made us even more impatient to get back to the absurd, where the impossible leaves you at the gate ✨

Expect joyful play, vibrant music, breathtaking circus, captivating performances, and glittering magic round every corner 👀

A selection of photos from over the years, special shoutout to the owl in waiting….we’re about to have a hoot!

🌞 Fri 21 - Sun 23 August 2026
📍Rode Hall Estate, Cheshire
🎟 Final tickets on sale now

#JustSoFestival #FamilyFestival #JustSoBack

3 months to go! Not being dazzled by the delights of Just So in 2025 has made us even more impatient to get back to the absurd, where the impossible leaves you at the gate ✨

Expect joyful play, vibrant music, breathtaking circus, captivating performances, and glittering magic round every corner 👀

A selection of photos from over the years, special shoutout to the owl in waiting….we’re about to have a hoot!

🌞 Fri 21 - Sun 23 August 2026
📍Rode Hall Estate, Cheshire
🎟 Final tickets on sale now

#JustSoFestival #FamilyFestival #JustSoBack

3 months to go! Not being dazzled by the delights of Just So in 2025 has made us even more impatient to get back to the absurd, where the impossible leaves you at the gate ✨

Expect joyful play, vibrant music, breathtaking circus, captivating performances, and glittering magic round every corner 👀

A selection of photos from over the years, special shoutout to the owl in waiting….we’re about to have a hoot!

🌞 Fri 21 - Sun 23 August 2026
📍Rode Hall Estate, Cheshire
🎟 Final tickets on sale now

#JustSoFestival #FamilyFestival #JustSoBack

3 months to go! Not being dazzled by the delights of Just So in 2025 has made us even more impatient to get back to the absurd, where the impossible leaves you at the gate ✨

Expect joyful play, vibrant music, breathtaking circus, captivating performances, and glittering magic round every corner 👀

A selection of photos from over the years, special shoutout to the owl in waiting….we’re about to have a hoot!

🌞 Fri 21 - Sun 23 August 2026
📍Rode Hall Estate, Cheshire
🎟 Final tickets on sale now

#JustSoFestival #FamilyFestival #JustSoBack

Pitcher this! Turning up to Just So Festival, car roomy, spacious, with no clinking clanking of pegs in the boot...and that’s only if you’ve remembered them. All because you booked a boutique or pre-pitched tent ⛺️

Important: Boutique camping must be booked separately from your weekend festival tickets. Once you’ve purchased your weekend tickets, book your boutique accommodation directly with one of the providers 🌳

Get pitch perfect by visiting our website 👩‍💻

https://justsofestival.org.uk/camping/boutique-camping/

Pitcher this! Turning up to Just So Festival, car roomy, spacious, with no clinking clanking of pegs in the boot...and that’s only if you’ve remembered them. All because you booked a boutique or pre-pitched tent ⛺️

Important: Boutique camping must be booked separately from your weekend festival tickets. Once you’ve purchased your weekend tickets, book your boutique accommodation directly with one of the providers 🌳

Get pitch perfect by visiting our website 👩‍💻

https://justsofestival.org.uk/camping/boutique-camping/

‘Remember we were plant, root and tree’ 

Mud Plant Rave is a new immersive outdoor arts performance designed to reconnect audiences with the living plant world 🪴 Drawing on ritual, rave culture, communal celebration, and sensory play, it invites you to step out of the everyday and into a shared experience with plants, soil, water, and one another.

It is joyful. It is earthy. It is serious and playful at once 🌱

It is a rave grown from the roots and aims to make your everyday better 🪩

Plant yourself deep into the rave at Just So 2026.

Created by the Institute of Thrifty Ideas and produced by Festival of Thrift.

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Captain Adventure Man and the Mega Manta.

Join Just So favourite Mike (from Dizzy O'Dare) as he builds a brand-new show right before your eyes!

Expect games, dancing, balloon silliness, eco-friendly pirates, and a mysterious dancing manta ray. You'll help steer a ship through a wild storm, dive deep beneath the waves, and become part of the adventure...

Can you help find the legendary Mega Manta?

Go check out Mike's Guide to Play on our main page.

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Do you have a potential puppeteer in the house? We’re on the build and need your help.

Get the little critters' hands up in the air and measure them from floor to sock puppeteering hand height. Comment the results below…in centimetres please.

Listen, we’re not after any BFG’s, think more Sophie!

Thanks to Clod aka mischief maker supreme for always being a sock-solid support!

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HERE COMES THE SUN!

A big bright yellow sunshine of a workshop, join us to make suns of all sizes, to contribute to this playful world of yellow rays. You'll be making wooden suns with us toadorn this world and to take away. We can't always keep the clouds away, but with sunshine in your pocket, who cares?! And come back at dusk, as the night draws in, and spend some time in the beautiful, glowing world of suns that we've created.

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Welcome to the Magic Lantern, a curious contraption that travels the land with its crew of storytellers, musicians and puppeteers, telling and collecting stories, lighting up woodlands, bringing laughter to doorsteps and creating magic wherever it goes. Occupied by Jo Douglas and friends.

Catch them light up your festival at Just So 2026.

#JustSoFestival #FamilyFestival #JustSoBack

Welcome to the Magic Lantern, a curious contraption that travels the land with its crew of storytellers, musicians and puppeteers, telling and collecting stories, lighting up woodlands, bringing laughter to doorsteps and creating magic wherever it goes. Occupied by Jo Douglas and friends.

Catch them light up your festival at Just So 2026.

#JustSoFestival #FamilyFestival #JustSoBack

Welcome to the Magic Lantern, a curious contraption that travels the land with its crew of storytellers, musicians and puppeteers, telling and collecting stories, lighting up woodlands, bringing laughter to doorsteps and creating magic wherever it goes. Occupied by Jo Douglas and friends.

Catch them light up your festival at Just So 2026.

#JustSoFestival #FamilyFestival #JustSoBack

Last chance to save on your Just So tickets! At midnight tonight all tickets will go up to Tier 3, our final and most expensive tier.

Book before the clock strikes midnight to save £15 on adult and £10 on child weekend camping tickets. (Or £50 if you're booking for 2 adults and 2 kids!)

Tap our link in bio to book your Just So adventure 🎟

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If you’re bringing your own caravan or campervan like Fifi the Frog, then you better hop to it. Live-in vehicle passes are running low and you need to purchase one when you buy your Just So festival tickets.

Now's your chance to get some before they move up to our Tier 3 bracket on Monday 4th May (Tier 2 live in tickets are £91.50 and then Tier 3 will be £96.50).

Please note: The live in vehicle campsite is in a separate area to general camping. To keep everyone safe, it is not possible for families in tents to camp with families in the live in vehicle area.

All information can be found on our website:

https://justsofestival.org.uk/camping/live-in-vehicles-2/

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