Category: Summer Gathering 2025

Travel Planning Guide for Summer Gathering 2025

How to get to the Earth First! Summer Gathering 2025

Site location
The closest train station to the site is Fishguard & Goodwick in Pembrokeshire, Wales. From the station, the site is a 15 minute bus ride to another town, which will cost about £6.70 for a single. There’s then a 40 minutes 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. The exact location of the site will be announced on this website a few days before the gathering.

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 will rise closer to time):
London to Swansea: National Express 4h 50m, £11.90.
London to Cardiff: Flixbus 3hr 50m, £4.99; National Express 3h 40m, £8.90.
Birmingham to Cardiff: Flixbus 4hr 05m, £8.99; National Express: 2h 40m, £11.00.

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 18th July – advance coach prices quoted will rise over time, so be sure to book ahead of time.

Earth First! Summer Gathering 2025

Save the date: 2025 Earth First! Summer Gathering!

The 2025 Earth First Summer Gathering will be from 6th –11th August in Wales! It is a gathering of the radical ecological movement, a chance to catch up with old friends, forge new connections and get stuck in with making ecological revolution a reality. We’ll post more information soon, but you can expect five days of engaging workshops, important discussions, great music, delicious food and living, breathing green anarchism.

The nearest train station is Fishguard, Pembrokeshire. The exact location will be announced closer to the time (it’s a bus ride and then a 40 min walk/car shuttle from Fishguard). More detailed travel information is available here