Announcements

JULY 14th 2026

We give you... HEAL Festival – The Gathering - September 11th - 12th 2026

We've been quiet for a while, but with good reason.

After much thought and discussion, we've decided to make some exciting changes to this year's festival format.

Like many of you, we've been feeling the impact of the challenges facing the world right now. On top of that, one of our valued team members is currently battling cancer, and our focus is on supporting them and their family during this difficult time.

With community at the heart of everything we do, we've decided to move away from our usual general admission ticket system. Instead of a standard entrance fee, entry to Heal Festival – The Gathering will be free with an optional charitable donation.

This allows us to keep the spirit of the festival alive while making it more accessible, inclusive, and community focused at a time when many people are facing their own challenges.

Every donation, no matter the size, will help support three incredible charities: Lingen Davies Cancer Support, COPE Mental health and the Rural Charity. Your generosity will make a real difference while helping us continue to bring people together and create a meaningful experience for everyone involved.

Imagine a festival packed with multiple zones, multiple music genres, amazing food, wellbeing experiences, entertainment, and a fantastic family day out,  all for an optional donation.

Bring your family. Bring your friends. Bring your positive, feel good energy.

💚 Nothing but good vibes.
💚 Community.
💚 Connection.
💚 Healing.

We appreciate your continued support, kindness, and belief in what we're building together.

So why are we calling it The Gathering? Because in addition to being free admission, we are inviting new people, organisations, artists, promoters, practitioners, clans, crews, shrews and woodland fairies to come and get involved!

Heal Festival as you know it will return even bigger on the 31st July - 1st August 2027 - unless you prefer The Gathering… or perhaps want both!

First artist to be announced is the mighty EVA LAZARUS, fyre!

Unfortunately due to the format change Starsailor won’t be able to perform this year.

Those who have already bought tickets, an eternal thank you and gratitudes - an email on how to transfer to next years event, partially donate to this years or indeed get a refund is on its way.

Thank you for being part of our journey. We can't wait to welcome you to, Heal Festival – The Gathering and celebrate together.

HealFestival #TheGathering #Community #GoodVibes #FestivalForEveryone

 

JULY 7TH 2026

STARSAILOR CANCELLED FOR 2026

Unfortunately with the format change to this years event to a Free entry show, Starsailor will not be able to perform. We would like to take the opportunity to thank the band for trying to make it work, but the size and epic ness of the show we had planned just cant fit in the new model. We are hoping to bring them to Heal Festival in the future.

LINE UP CHANGE FOR HEAL FESTIVAL 2025
September 9th 2025

Its almost time for this years festival, as tents and equipment are already being loaded into our beloved showground. We have unfortunately had to make an adjustment to the Saturday lineup. It makes us really sad to say this out loud but we are not able to present you with The Fratellis as originally planned.  We have waited as long as possible to make this heart wrenching decision in the hope that ticket sales would reflect the investment in such a huge headline band but even with the worrying trend of people buying last minute tickets taken into account it is not possible for us to fulfill their contract and pay the balance of the fee and put on a sustainable event. This is no reflection on the band who have been more than helpful in trying to get this over the line! 

As disappointing as this is we hope you can still offer the same support and enthusiasm to our non corporate, independent and unsponsored festival, powered mainly by community and kindness along with your highly valued ticket money contributions, by getting behind us and coming to enjoy what is still an amazingly good value lineup for the ticket price you pay.  Keeping the festival affordable has always been our main aim to encourage greater numbers to join our Heal community but in a world where money is tighter and the corporate festival machines corner the majority, without the necessary uptake on our lineup which we expanded to try and offset the industry downturn, sensible decisions have to be made for the greater good, i.e the festival going ahead as planned with still over 120+ acts, multiple stages, attractions and wellness, supporting charity and moving on into the future!

Plans are afoot to rejig the lineup and add some more sparkle where possible, and all 2025 ticket buyers will be offered a super, super, early bird ticket for the 2026 edition, or special gift post event, as a way to offset the disappointment and reward for your loyalty and understanding.

Big love to everyone out there still supporting smaller events, and everyone that has helped Heal Festival on the journey so far! 

See you in a couple of weeks!

Team Heal x

TOM MEIGHAN KICK STARTS THE FIRST WAVE OF ARTIST ANNOUNCEMENTS FOR HEAL FESTIVAL 2024
January 30th 2024

Tom Meighan the former legendary front man of KASABIAN, will be kick starting the first wave of artist announcements for this years Heal Festival. Sporting an impressive back catalogue of instantly recognisable hits with Kasabian combined with new retrospective solo material - Tom following on the back of supporting Noel Gallagher on his huge tour to critical praise, will undoubtedly bring a performance worthy of a legendary frontman.

FIRST FESTIVAL ZONES ANNOUNCED
January 26th 2024
The first zones of Heal Festival 2024 have been announced. These include an upgraded dance zone called the Electric Meadow featuring new and old promoter hosted tents / stages. NEW for 2024 is the Jam.down caribbean village zone, incorporating authentic caribbean / Jamaican influenced cultural food, music and art, and of course the wellness village and main stage both make a return.

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