How to get to the Earth First! Summer Gathering 2025

Site loca­tion

The gath­er­ing is being host­ed by the Brithdir Mawr Hous­ing Co-op in Pem­brokeshire, Cym­ru. The what3words for the entrance to the camp is unleashed.pancakes.bless.

The clos­est train sta­tion to the site is Fish­guard & Good­wick in Pem­brokeshire, Wales. From the sta­tion, the site is a 15 minute bus ride (T5 or 404) to New­port, Pem­brokeshire, which will cost around £4.40 for a sin­gle. There’s then a 40 minute 1.8miles/300ft ascent walk up a qui­et road to the site. We’ll organ­ise as many shut­tle runs for peo­ple and/or lug­gage as pos­si­ble.

If you have access needs and require a guar­an­teed shut­tle run, we will have a site phone num­ber pub­li­cised clos­er to the time which you can get in touch with to make arrange­ments.

Get­ting to Fish­guard
To get to Fish­guard & Good­wick sta­tion, there are direct trains from Man­ches­ter, Cardiff & Swansea. Try a web­site like book.splitticketing.com to get cheap­er advance tick­ets.

If you can’t afford to make the whole jour­ney by train, you could get a direct coach from sev­er­al major cities like Birm­ing­ham, Bris­tol or Lon­don, to Cardiff or Swansea,  from where you can then get a train to Fish­guard.

Off-peak return trains (price will stay the same):
Cardiff to Fish­guard: £42.80 (£28.50 with a rail­card).
Swansea to Fish­guard: £30.10 (£20.00 with rail­card).

Coach options (prices are one-way and will rise clos­er to time):
Lon­don to Swansea: Nation­al Express 4h 50m, £16.90.
Lon­don to Cardiff: Flixbus 3hr 50m, £8.49; Nation­al Express 3h 40m, £15.90.
Birm­ing­ham to Cardiff: Flixbus 4hr 05m, £8.99; Nation­al Express: 2h 40m, £11.00.

This is an non-exhaus­tive list, so be sure to look out for oth­er options. One sug­ges­tion for a longer, but more scenic route is to take the train from Birmingham/Shrewsbury to Aberys­t­wyth, then the T5 bus along the coast to New­port, Pem­brokeshire.

When to arrive and leave
Wednes­day 6th August is the day for peo­ple to trav­el to the site and help with set­ting up, ready for the pro­gramme to start at 9am on Thurs­day 7th. The last pro­grammed day is Sun­day 10th, but we ask peo­ple trav­el back on Mon­day 11th, as this is our pack­down day and we are all crew, so help­ing with logis­tics is both appre­ci­at­ed and encour­aged.

Trav­el & lift­shar­ing chat
There is an Earth First! trav­el plan­ning chat on sig­nal for peo­ple to ask ques­tions, and ask for & offer lifts. Please con­tact us on insta­gram or by email to get the invite link

Last updat­ed 28th July — advance coach prices quot­ed will rise over time, so be sure to book ahead of time.