SUPER IMPORTANT INFO ⚠️

VCO 2025 - All the info you need!

From tonight we won't be able to reply to emails as we are all now busy at the site building the event, however this is all of the information you need to know for this weekend 

If you can't find your ticket - Please don't email us and instead please search 'Vegan Camp Out' in your emails (including junk/spam) and if you still can't find them - someone will be able to find them on the door don't worry!

Address for everyone arriving:

Google Maps - SG7 5JX - Then look for event signage

what3words - spurted.signed.jammy (more accurate and you can then have it go through Google Maps!)

Time to arrive - The car park opens for everyone (except VIP) at 12 midday Thursday or Friday (depending on if you have a Thursday pass) with the campsite opening at 1pm and the arena opening at 2pm. If you have a VIP add-on then you may come from 10am. Please do not come before these times as this risks causing traffic issues on the roads, which then means everyone has to wait longer to get in than they would have.

Please have just your vehicle/parking pass ready for scanning on arrival. If you haven't bought one online - you can pay on entry for £25 (weekend) or £15 (day ticket) - Card only!

Once you've parked your vehicle - Please follow signs for the ticket exchanges and make sure to have your weekend tickets up on your phone (or printed) ready for scanning

The latest time you can arrive to the festival is 10pm on Thursday or Friday and 8pm on Saturday or Sunday. The festival ends at 2pm on Monday which is when everyone needs to have left by (you may also leave on Sunday evening if you need/prefer)

Trains / Shuttle bus - Please get the train to Hitchin station. From there you can then get the shuttle bus from there direct to the venue! These tickets can be bought from here in advance (they will be more expensive on the day). Times below:

Thursday - Hitchin Train Station to VCO - 12, 12.50, 1.40, 2.30, 3.30, 5, 6, 7, 8

Friday - Hitchin Train Station to VCO - 12, 12.50, 1.40, 2.30, 3.30, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

Monday - VCO to Hitchin Train Station - 9.30am, 10, 10.30, 11, 11.30, 12, 12.30, 1, 1.30, 2, 2.30

Thursday / Extra day entry - There are still a few Thursday entry tickets available from this link here. These have to be ordered in additional to your weekend tickets (you can still buy them now even if you already have your weekend tickets). This gives you a whole 24 hours longer at VCO for just £25 + b/f - an extra day to camp, socialise, eat food and 10 exclusive DJ sets are happening on the Thursday!

Glamping & Pre-Pitched camping - You will be checked in by the specific company you are booked with and they will be there to help you. There are private showers and toilets in this area. You must also have a regular VCO festival weekend ticket too and not just a Glamping/Pre-Pitched booking (this is purely an accommodation add-on)

Families - There is a section of the car park for families which you can park your car or motorhome in (as long as you have the correct parking pass). In family camping there will be an area with a marquee, inflatables, kids games, your own showers/toilets, facepainting and your own food vendors / coffee!

Motorhomes - If you have a motorhome, you can park it in the general motorhome section, the family motorhome section or accessible parking. Please just make sure you have the correct motorhome parking pass (separate to your festival ticket!)

Day Tickets - You can come from 9am Saturday or Sunday. Latest entry is 6pm on both days. You must leave by midnight on either day and you can't camp. You can buy a day parking pass on arrival for £15. If you're with children, you may still visit the family activities in the family camping field

VIP (Hosted by Clive's Purely Plants) - There are still a few VIP passes left at this link. You can come from 10am Thursday or Friday (depending on if you have the Thursday pass). You must have both a full VCO festival weekend ticket as well as your VIP add-on (the VIP add-on does not grant you entry to the festival, this is purely the VIP add-on). There is a designated VIP camping area also with your own toilets/showers. In the VIP zone there is a private bar, food vendor, seating/beanbags, music/DJ sets and games! This area is a very short walk from VIP camping. VIP is strictly 16+ (however we have told people who have recently had babies that they can still enter - but no young children or teenagers). You also have a 2025 festival T-Shirt included as part of your VIP add-on (which will be emailed to you separately tonight/tomorrow). The T-Shirt barcode email can be exchanged for the actual T-Shirt from the VCO merch stall (located in the stalls in the arena) any time from when the arena opens at 2pm (you may pick your size in person). A reminder that each person in your group must have a VIP add-on in order to have early entry, access to VIP camping/VIP zone or the festival T-Shirt

Merch - We have an official VCO merch stall on site (located at the left of the stalls area when you first walk into the arena). This will have 2025 Festival T-Shirts, old year T-Shirts and hoodies for sale, as well as beanies, joggers/sweatpants, hats, mugs, stickers and badges! If you have pre-ordered a T-Shirt or hoodie - this is where you pick it up from also (using the merch barcode ticket you will have received via email). Merch is also where you can drop off any lost property (or ask for any lost items). Buying merch massively helps us as a festival to continue - so thank-you!

Bars/Drinks - There are bars in the arena, food court, VIP and The Jungle. We work with our bar providers to give you some of the cheapest drinks prices seen at UK festivals this summer! Buying drinks from the bar supports the future of the festival! You can't enter the arena with alcohol (on drinks) you have brought with you (you may fill up your water bottle for free once inside the arena using our water stations!)

WiFi / Phone signal - Phone signal will be very poor on-site so we have several WiFi points on-site for you to connect to. They are marked on the map - in various places in the arena, campsites and VIP zone.

Alcohol Allowance - Each person is permitted to bring 12 cans of beer/lager or 70cl/700ml of spirits or 1500ml of wine (2 bottles) with them for the campsite. Glass bottle spirits are allowed but not glass beer bottles. Buying drinks helps to support the festival as this is usually one of the only ways an event makes money. We purposely make sure our drinks prices are some of (if not - the) cheapest festival drink prices in the country. You must bring your alcohol with you when first exchanging your wristband. Once you have entered the campsite, you cannot bring more alcohol with you if you leave and come back (even if it's for someone else).

Access Customers - This area is closest to the arena. In this area there will be accessible showers and toilets, and a sensory hub (there will also be accessible toilets in the arena also). Once you arrive at the campsite, the Access Team will be ready to greet you. Access day customers, and long-stay access customers can use the disabled access car park located opposite the access camp site - please speak to staff for the exact location. Any issues please use the Access WhatsApp group here to contact El (your disability liaison) - https://chat.whatsapp.com/H0PSG3ck0bY53YqFUdf75S 

BSL - There will be interpreters for the Main stage and Education stage. Information on where to go will be on the booklet handed to everyone on arrival!

Cash/Card - Please bring lots of cash as there aren't any cash machines on-site. Most places take both card or cash

Coffee - There's more coffee this year than ever before! They are marked on the map in this email. There's coffee in general camping, family camping and two in the arena (one of which is in the food strip).

Toilets - These are marked on the map in this email. Not only are we one of the cheapest medium sized camping festivals in the country, but we're one of the only festivals that doesn't charge extra for luxury toilets! All the luxury toilets will be in the various campsites (as this is where people will be using them the most) but there are many standard portaloos in the arena also! As well as the introduction of compost/eco toilets for the first time ever

Showers - These are marked on the map in this email. They are in general camping, family camping, glamping, pre-pitched camping, accessible and VIP.

Dogs - For those that can either leave their dog at home or get a dog sitter, this would be highly appreciated and make things easier for everyone. It may not be an appropriate place for them in the talks which could possibly mean you having to miss out on them. However, if you want to bring them, that's fine, and everywhere outdoors will be fine for them. Please note dogs must be kept on leads at all times and will have to sleep in your tent/caravan with you. Dogs should not be in the music stage or afterparties because of loud noise. Bring a dog bowl in case of hot weather. Cats or Pigs are not allowed because of licensing restrictions.

Weather - As it stands at the time of writing this, there is set to be light rain on some of the days but this may change. Please prepare for all weather - hats/sunscreen, umbrella etc!

Lost Property - Please drop off any found items at VCO merch in the area and also enquire here about any lost items!

Quiet Camping - This is located on the map, just to the right when you come into the general campsite. It isn't something you pre-book, it's just a smaller area that is made for those that want to camp around others that don't want to make noise (once it's full, it's full!)

Solo Campers - This is located on the map also, to the far left when you walk into the general campsite. It isn't marked with anything, it's just a generic area for those who want to camp with others who are going alone!

Prohibited items at Bygrave Woods - all areas:

- Cameras, film, or video equipment with a lens greater than 6 inches

- Drones

- Generators

- Illegal substances or legal highs

- Unrecognisable medication without a doctor’s note or prescription

- Barbeques (including single use)

- Glass beer bottles

- Gas cylinders

- Camping stoves - venue / safety and fire's decision due to extreme dry weather (with the exception of inside motorhomes and campervans). Access Guests will be updated by the Access Team re cooking facilities. Anybody with access needs that isn’t pre-registered is welcome to approach the accessible campsite to discuss cooking arrangements, if you require this for medical purposes

- Campfires

- Candles

- Drugs (including ‘legal highs’)

- Fireworks, flares or smoke cannisters

- Markers, paint or spray cans

- Sky or ‘Chinese’ lanterns

- Sound systems

- Weapons or potential weapons

- Airhorns

- Explosives

- Laser devices

- Loudhailers or megaphones

- New psychoactive substances (NPS)

- Paraffin lamps

- Signs, clothing or materials displaying discriminatory derogatory or offensive messages

- Scooters

- Unofficial hi-visibility clothing/tabards

- Flags and flag poles - these are welcome to be brought into campsites but flag poles will not be permitted into the arena.

Items prohibited in the arena only:

- Aerosols or pressurised canisters

- Alcohol (not purchased from one of the official VCO bars)

- Flares

- Gas canisters

- Knives (including locking knives)

See you all Thursday / Friday!

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Vegan Camp Out 2025 takes place at Bygrave Woods, Hertfordshire August 29 - September 1. Back to a beautiful venue with trees and woodland. A whole extra day for those that want to come early. Later afterparties just like from 2018 - 2022. And a reduced capacity of just 7500 people! 

 Coming from London? - Just 33 mins direct from St Pancras International to Hitchin. Then there's a shuttle bus to the event (Thursday/Friday) and back to the station (Monday)