National Camping and Caravanning Week 2023

Wednesday 17th May 2023

This year’s National Camping and Caravanning Week will run from 29th May to 4th June.

The week is an annual celebration of camping, touring and the incredible outdoors. For 2023, The Camping and Caravanning Club is hosting an immersive campsite experience at busy city centre locations around the UK for an event called Outjoyment Live.

Outjoyment Live highlights research published in The Outjoyment Report, which was carried out by a team of academic experts from Liverpool John Moores University and Sheffield Hallam University. The study revealed those who go camping are happier than those who don’t, with a study of 10,992 people finding 48 per cent of campers feeling generally happy almost every day compared to just 35 per cent of non-campers.

The Outjoyment Live events feature a bespoke sensory pod containing a campsite setting complete with the sounds and smells of the countryside. Visitors can step inside the sensory pod and listen to a special meditation podcast with Club President Julia Bradbury before switching off from city life and tuning into the relaxing sounds of the campsite.  

The Pod will travel to the following cities for Outjoyment Live:
• 25 May: Bullring, Rotunda Square, Birmingham
• 31 May: Tudor Square, Sheffield
• 2 June: Argyle Street, Glasgow
• 6 June: St David’s Shopping Centre, Cardiff

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For more information, interview opportunities or images contact us.  

Notes for Editors
1. The Camping and Caravanning Club is 122 years old and is the UK’s oldest and largest Club for all forms of camping.
2. The Club has a campsite network of nearly 100 Club Sites around the UK, together with more than 1,200 Certificated Sites that can accommodate up to five caravans or motorhomes a night together with up to ten tents.
3. Outjoyment – a blended word of outdoors and enjoyment – is the feeling you get when you’re immersed in the sights and sounds of nature.
4. To download a copy of The Outjoyment Report visit www.theoutjoymentreport.co.uk.
5. Share your own moment of Outjoyment: post a photo of time well spent in the incredible outdoors for the chance to win one of ten Go Outdoors vouchers worth £100. Whether you are joining the Club at Outjoyment Live, pitching up on one of our campsites or taking a walk in your local park, we just want to see what Outjoyment means to you. Search #HappierCamping for inspiration. To enter post your image and tag @thecampingandcaravanningclub or @campandcaravan and include #HappierCamping.
6. Join the Club from £48 a year. Club members get up to 30% off pitch fees with further discounts for over 60s. What’s more, members get discounts in retail stores, on days out and attractions www.campingandcaravanningclub.co.uk/membership. 
7. Get involved: for the latest news, information and inspiration from The Camping and Caravanning Club, and to engage with those who’ve enjoyed holidays with the Club, visit www.facebook.com/thefriendlyclub or check out our Instagram page www.instagram.com/campandcaravan. 
8. To view the Club’s comprehensive video directory, visit www.youtube.com/thefriendlyclub.