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CAMPING can offer a great financefriendly family holiday.

Sites where you are given a pitch for your own tent are most popular but glamping is a hit with families who don’t want to lug around all the kit.

Wild camping is the backto-basics version but is only really legal in Scotland and areas of Dartmoor National

Park. Anywhere else, you should seek the permission of the landowner.

The essentials include a tent, tent pegs, a sleeping mat or airbed, pillows, a stove and cookware, a water carrier, torch and camping chairs – plus bin bags to take your rubbish home! For

GLASTONBURY, which will be livestreamed this year, got a £900,000 grant as part of the Government’s £400million Culture Recovery Fund that will help to secure its future.

Radio 1’s Big Weekend will also be online in May, while the British Summer Time Hyde Park event in July has been cancelled.

But festival-goers can enjoy events later in the year including family-friendly Camp Bestival, from July 29 to August 1 in Lulworth, Dorset, with Sophie Ellis-bextor and Groove Armada, and Creamfields in Daresbury, Cheshire, from August 26 featuring Carl Cox and Tiesto.

Parklife is still on in Manchester in September, as well as the Reading & the lowdown on kit, including tent size, check out gooutdoors.co.uk. For places to stay, pitchup.com lists thousands of UK sites, while coolcamping.com has details for stays in tipis, glamping tents and lodges.

For something a little more unusual, Blackberry Wood, near Ditchling, East Sussex, has a fairy tale treehouse and a converted double decker bus and helicopter.

Or you can rent a dome or hobbit pod at Camp Katur, near Ripon, North Yorks, where the family can also enjoy a treetop trail.

And if your kids love the Wild West, Pinewood Park near Scarborough has cabins like wagons from a Western.

FEST FOOT FORWARD: Camp Bestival crowd in 2019

Leeds Festival and

Rewind, both in August.

And All Points East in London’s Victoria Park has been moved from its usual spot in May to late August.

It is not yet clear if the Notting Hill Carnival will take place – but the BBC Proms in September looks likely.