Paganfest brings together everyone under the pagan umbrella in a castle woodland to celebrate in ritual, weave magic, honour the sacred and keep the old ways alive with speakers, music, tarot, drumming, healing, workshops, a magical market and more. Please find loads of information below to help you arrive safely, timely and with minimal anxiety. The grass in the parking field is quite long so ple
ase take care, also the site is beautiful and natural and comes with uneven ground, plants, sticks and other things found in nature. Please be careful and take responsibility for yourself and your belongings. We have an incredible team of volunteers running this event, if you need anything look for those with high viz jackets on. Just in case the card machines struggle to work, please bring some cash with you to spend on food, gifts, readings, treatments, if you wish. All talks, etc are included in the ticket price. Important Information for North Wales PaganFest 2024
Who are we? Pagan tree moot is a moot run from the Grosvenor hall in Mold on the 2nd Friday of the month. The team are Kate, Mel, Viv and Alli,as well as our kitchen witch Jane. We have been running since January 2020, hosting rituals, workshops and talks. We have been chatting about running an outdoor event for some time, so we teamed up with our lovely friend Vanessa Warrington at Halkyn Castle Woods to bring you “North Wales PaganFest”
The festival aims to bring people together in a safe and beautiful space to celebrate “all that is pagan” together. We strongly believe in community and wish that you all have a comfortable and enjoyable day. We are so humbled by the support from you all, as well as the support from our speakers, traders, workshop hosts, musicians, fire dancers and our volunteer team. There will be a tombola and donation buckets on site for raising vital funds for Our chosen charity this year, Jacksons animal rescue. How to find us: -We are located at Halkyn Castle Wood. You access us:
westbound off the A55 between the Northop and Halkyn
exits. The exit is for the Travelodge and Burger King. Pop ‘Travelodge Halkyn’ into your SatNav. (post code may not get you here!!)
Drive as if going into the Travelodge car park and you will
see the sign for Halkyn Castle Wood and our “North Wales PaganFest” banner
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Car parking – Car parking is available in the field immediately adjacent to the festival site. When you enter the driveway for the site, you will find our car park attendants who will greet you and direct you to park your vehicle. The car park will open at 8.45am to allow for all our guests to arrive, check in for wrist bands and be on site for the opening rite at 10am. You can enter the site when you arrive, but note that everything officially opens at 10am
There is some disabled parking within the festival site, please make the car park attendants aware if you need to use this and you will be directed to the area. Toilets: there is a toilet block on site this includes a disabled toilet, and two portaloos. Dogs: -the festival site has been carefully risk assessed for dogs and it has been decided that only support dogs are permitted on site. Any dogs on site must be kept on a lead due to the nature of the site being woodland and containing a lot of wildlife. If you are bringing a support dog, please e mail [email protected] prior to the day. Chairs: -there will be seating in the main areas where the talks and workshops are held, as well as picnic benches. If you have your own camp chair or picnic blanket, please do bring them 😊
Drums:- please bring along drums on the day for the rituals. Should you wish to store your drum for the day, you can do this at the information tent, where a wrist band can be attached with your name on. This tent will be manned at all times. First aid:-
There will be first aiders on site throughout the day, the main contact points are the cherry fire circle and the info tent near the toilet block. You can alert one of our many volunteers should you require first aid, who will call first aiders to you. Your lead first aiders for the day are Kate Johnson and Vanessa Warrington. Should they be required the following places are the nearest to the site:
Minor Injuries: Holywell Community Hospital CH8 7TZ 01352 711833
A&E; Bodelwyddan Hospital Rhuddlan Road. Bodelwyddan. Rhyl. LL18 5UJ. Food:
On site catering will be provided by Ffres catering – they will be providing a menu which covers vegan and vegetarian as well as meat-based dishes. There is no WiFi on site so please bring CASH in case card machines don’t work! You are also welcome to bring your own picnic. We have a tea/coffee stand and a lovely cake stall too. There’s a fresh lemonade stall and cold drinks. There are two water points for drinking water on site – volunteers can direct you to these points. Talks/workshops – all the talks, activities and workshops are included in the price of the ticket. There is a small charge for materials for the following workshops -Willow’s jewellery making, the arrow break ceremony at the god tent and Kimberley Morgan’s witch ladders. These charges are payable to the workshop holder on the day, should you not have the right money, a paypal payment can be made to Paypal.me/pagantree. There are readers and practitioner stalls who also charge. Money-
There is no cash machine on site. Please bring some CASH with you in case card readers don’t work! The following places are nearby:
Northop Community Shop post office, cashback, groceries, newspapers, alcohol, etc. High St. CH7 6BQ Sat 7am – 12.30pm
Pentre Halkyn Shop and post office, cash back, open: Sat 7.30-7.30pm
Premier Stores, cash back, Northop Hall. 6am – 10pm everyday. CH7 6HS
Morrisons Supermarket, cash point. Connahs Quay CH5 4UP 8am – 10pm
Stalls: our marketplace is host to 50+ amazing stalls with a variety of Items from local hand crafts, witchy wares and everything in between. There are also 3 tarot readers, a healer, and a local distillery selling gin and mead. Raffle: we will have a lovely raffle on the day, don’t forget to visit our info tent to have a look at the prizes and grab yourself a ticket
Weather- whilst we hope for a sunny day, all our talks and workshop areas are under cover. If it its sunny, don’t forget your sun cream! Should you have any further questions, please e mail
[email protected] or text/whatsapp kate on 07890 646870
By purchasing a ticket and attending this event you agree to abide by the terms and conditions of the site. These can be found on www.halkyncastlewoodevents.com
