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Vanlife Eats Big Picnic 2026

Name: Vanlife Eats Big Picnic 2026
Start: 2026-08-28
End: 2026-08-30
Location: Dummer Down Farm, Dummer, near Basingstoke, Hampshire, RG25 2AH

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28-30 August 2026

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Dummer Down Farm, Dummer, near Basingstoke, Hampshire, RG25 2AH, Dummer

Vanlife Eats Big Picnic 2026

Vanlife Eats Big Picnic is a three-day campervan and vanlife food festival held at Dummer Down Farm, a rural Hampshire venue near Basingstoke at the end of August. Combining the vanlife community spirit with a celebration of food, street food traders, and outdoor dining, the event brings together campervan and motorhome owners for a late-summer long-weekend festival at a picturesque Hampshire farm setting.

Dummer Down Farm is set in the rolling Hampshire countryside south-west of Basingstoke, easily accessible from the M3. The Big Picnic format — combining the social aspects of a vanlife camping weekend with a curated food and music programme — makes it a distinctive event in the UK campervan calendar, appealing to the lifestyle-focused segment of the vanlife community.

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Dummer Down Farm, Dummer, near Basingstoke, Hampshire, RG25 2AH, Dummer, United Kingdom

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