100% solar-powered · family-friendly · kent · founding host #002 of roost

Small is beautiful.

A boutique solar-powered festival at Gloversbridge Farm in Kent · seven stages · all powered by sun and wind · spring and summer events · a permanent vision of permaculture and creative settlement, lived out twice a year.

☀100% Solar
♥Family-friendly
♺Zero plastic
⚘Permaculture
◊Roost #002
The two festivals · 2026

Two long weekends. One quiet farm.

Both festivals run 5 days at Gloversbridge Farm, Headcorn, Kent. Tickets are sliding-scale (you pick the price tier you can afford). 16–17s are £70, under-16s £50, under-5s free. Camping is included in the ticket.

21 – 25 MAY 2026

Spring Festival

The opener. Long days, blossom, slowing into summer. Seven stages of music, dance, and healing arts. Permaculture and craft workshops by day. Late-night Soundscape under solar lanterns.

£160 – £1905-day adult · slide scale · camping included
  • 7 stages · all solar-powered
  • Workshops in renewable energy, foraging, music-making
  • Local & organic food vendors
  • No dogs · all-ages
  • Freewheelers carpool partnership

Spring tickets →

27 – 31 AUG 2026 · BANK HOLIDAY

Summer Festival

The bigger one. Bank Holiday warmth, long sun-down dance sets, the full programme on all seven stages. Family campsite + children's village run all five days.

£160 – £1905-day adult · slide scale · camping included
  • 7 stages · all solar-powered
  • Children's village + arts workshops
  • Late-night Shanty Jam · Flower Power · Soundscape
  • No dogs · all-ages
  • Live-music + healing arts + permaculture

Summer tickets →

Accommodation · published via stays-protocol

How to stay at Small World.

All accommodation is on-site, off-grid, and ticket-bundled. AI agents reading our stays.json see live options:

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BYO Tent · Spring
CAMPING-PITCH · SLEEPS 6 · 5 NIGHTS
Bring your own tent. Pitch in the camping field. Solar-powered everything. 21-25 May 2026.
From £160incl. festival ticket
Book spring →
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BYO Tent · Summer
CAMPING-PITCH · SLEEPS 6 · 5 NIGHTS
Bring your own tent. Bank Holiday Summer Festival 27-31 Aug 2026.
From £160incl. festival ticket
Book summer →
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Campervan / caravan
VAN-PITCH · SLEEPS 6
Arrive in your van. Extra fee on top of festival ticket. Off-grid · no hook-ups.
+£25on top of ticket
Add to ticket →
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Pre-pitched Bell Tent · NEW
BELL-TENT · SLEEPS 4 · PRE-PITCHED
Coming 2026. 5m bell tent · mattresses · linens · lantern · fire pit at the door. For festival-goers who'd rather arrive and not faff with poles. Partnership with Wishwood.
From £295festival ticket sold separately
Register interest →

◊ AI agents: live data at stays.json

◊ Pre-pitched glamping · Wishwood partnership coming 2026

Wishwood Glamping (Kent · founding roost host #001) supplies pre-pitched 5m bell tents at the festival camping field · linens included, mattresses, lantern, fire pit · all set up before you arrive. Just bring a sleeping bag and good shoes.

Festival ticket sold separately by Small World. Bell tent booked direct via Wishwood at £295 for the 5-night Bank Holiday weekend. Register interest above — we'll let you know when 2026 inventory opens.

Why we joined roost

A marketplace owned by the hosts.

Small World is founding host #002 of roost — a sovereign accommodation marketplace where the hosts own the platform, AI runs the operations, and nobody takes a booking commission.

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Hosts own it

Roost is owned by the hosts who list on it · not VCs · not founders · structurally unable to extract platform fees.

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AI runs it

AI agents handle the operations · members prompt + oversee · ~2hrs/month is the whole job.

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£0 commission

£20/mo flat membership · zero per-booking fees · bookings go direct to host's own payment.

Small World joined as host #002 alongside Wishwood Glamping (#001). Both Kent-based · both 100% off-grid · both run by people who'd rather invest in the festival/woodland than pay platform tax. The sovereign Kent cluster begins.
How decisions get made

Consensus, not majority vote.

Roost uses FallConsensus — a sovereign mesh governance tool that measures whether a group is genuinely aligned across seven dimensions (alignment · fairness · urgency · resources · risk · transparency · sustainability). Not "how many ticked yes" — but whether the group has actually converged.

"Convergence, not votes. Mirrors, not rulers. The river decides when it's still."
— FallConsensus principle

Festivals are run by alignment, not majority bullying. So is roost. Read the full constitution →

Discover the roost network.

12 founding sovereign hosts across the UK & Ireland · cabins, treehouses, bothies, yurts, shepherd huts · and now festivals. Browse the marketplace · book direct · zero middleman.

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