Travel Arrangements - Full Weekend

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We will be offering two pickup locations for ​children/young people travelling with us for the full weekend on Friday:

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- Sawbridgeworth Evangelical Church (CM21 9EH) - 4:30pm

- Peterhouse Centre (E17 3PW) - 5:30pm

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Alternatively, parents/carers can drop straight to the Stubbers site at 6:30pm, following the drop off arrangements listed below for Saturday visitors. Please confirm how you will be travelling to Stubbers if you are with us for the full weekend by emailing outreach@rbf.org.uk by Friday 7th July.

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Travel Arrangements - Saturday Visitors

If you child is joining us just for the day on Saturday, please drop them off at Stubbers at 9am. On arrival, park in the large short stay car park by the lake at the end of the driveway, then walk towards the large event field you will have passed on your left as you drove on to the site (surrounded by a green fence). Cross the wooden bridge and follow the signs to the 'Information' area in the first marquee you see - RBF staff will meet you son/daughter there.

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Saturday visitors can then be collected either at 8:30pm after the dinner and the evening session, or at 10:30pm after the evening entertainment programme finishes from the same area where you dropped off. Please let RBF staff know whether you'll be collecting at 8:30 or 10:30 when you drop off on Saturday morning. 

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Food
Friday PM: The festival starts with a ‘Big Picnic’ so young people should bring along a “packed dinner”.
Saturday AM: Breakfast provided by RBF (selection of cereals and toast).
Saturday Noon: Lunch provided by RBF (rolls, crisps, fruit, snacks).
Saturday PM: All young people will be given money to spend at the SOLID Food Court from the on site vendors.
Sunday AM: Breakfast provided by RBF (selection of cereals and toast).
Sunday Noon: Lunch provided by RBF (rolls, crisps, fruit, snacks).

 

Programme
The full festival programme is online at www.solidfestival.org.uk and will be regularly updated over the next few days as the final details about the weekend are released.

 

Spending Money
The SOLID Food Court will be open throughout Friday & Saturday selling a wide variety of different foods and drinks all at subsidised rates so young people can get extra snacks all for less than £5. SOLID Festival merchandise ranging from badges to hoodies will be on sale, most expensive items around £15. Young people can look after their own spending money or give it to a leader in a named envelope to look after.

 

Accommodation
The RBF group will be sleeping in Stubbers ‘Bunkhouses’ which are effectively very large tents with wooden floors and bunkbeds inside. Young people will need to bring a sleeping bag, pillow and if they know they get cold at night an extra blanket. There is access to single gender showers and toilets around a 1-2 minute walk from where the RBF bunkhouses are located on the festival site.

Adventure Activities
For the majority of the day on Saturday our group will have access to a wide variety of adventure activities. We will split into small groups based on which activities the young people would like to have a go at, each with a leader.

 

Supervision
Young people under the age of 11 will be directly supervised by a leader throughout the weekend; over 11’s will be allowed to take part in activities by themselves but always letting leaders know where they are going first and arranging a time to meet back with the main group. The Stubbers site is relatively small and will have 24-hour stewarding. 

 

Faith Stuff
The SOLID Festival does have a Christian element which is expressed in the four ‘Celebrations’ during the weekend which are a mixture of live/recorded music, entertainment/games and short talks from the stage. There are two Celebration Venues to choose from (called ‘Dauntless’ and ‘Expect’). We will take groups along to both venues so young people can pick the format they prefer and our groups will sit together in the sessions. Young people can ‘opt out’ of any activities happening in the venues if they wish to do so, but will need to stay with our group.

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Mobile Phones
Signal can be patchy on the Stubbers site and we would recommend that young people do not bring their mobile phones along, or if they do, give them to a leader to keep locked inside one of their cars on arrival once they have called home so you know they arrived safely. The site is small, very difficult to get lost in, and there are no charging facilities available. Please note that RBF, SOLID and Stubbers can accept no liability if phones or other personal belongings are brought on to the site and are lost/damaged.

 

Medication
If your son/daughter takes any regular medication, it should be handed to a leader when they are dropped off on the Friday in a named bag with instructions for if/when it should be administered. We are happy for young people to look after their own Asthma pumps if they are used to doing this. RBF will be providing First Aiders and the SOLID Festival will also have their own First Aid team available. 

 

Wrist Bands
On arrival, everyone will receive a wristband. Please remind your son/daughter that if they tear or remove their wristband they will be charged to replace it and they must wear it all times while on the festival site.

 

Behaviour
Members of RBF groups will be aware of the high standards of behaviour we expect when we take young people away on any off site activity. For the period of SOLID we will be operating a policy of three strikes then a phone call to request that the young person be collected from the site in Upminster. We hope that the young people will show the appropriate respect to the site, the leaders and the SOLID/Stubbers staff that we will not give out any strikes at all. We do not need to remind you that the possession or use of alcohol, cigarettes and/or illegal substances will result in parents being called to collect young people immediately.

 

Rules

 
•    Be in bunkhouses and quiet by 11pm
•    Go to all Celebrations and sit with the RBF group
•    Eat and drink properly – no skipping meals
•    Listen to the leaders first time
•    Bunkhouses are strictly single sex, all day long not just at night time. Breaking this rule will constitute an automatic strike.

Additional Stubbers Health & Safety rules are available on the festival website: www.solidfestival.org.uk

Kit List
Make sure everything you bring is labelled and please note that LARGE SUITCASES WILL NOT BE ALLOWED. Everything must be packed in soft bags/rucksacks. Remember we are spending a weekend in a field – nobody is expected to look like they are on a magazine cover! Please bring as little as possible as we have lots of kit to fit in not much space…

 

• Stuff to Sleep On/In (Sleeping Bag & Pillow)

• Hat & sunglasses

• Loose fitting clothes (please note this is a camping trip – don’t bring your best stuff!)

• Jumper

• Waterproof

• Appropriate nightwear (it often gets very cold at night even if its been a hot day)

• Trainers

• Flip flops/sandals/crocs to wear inside bunkhouse

• Set of clothes to get absolutely drenched if you take part in any of the water sports activities on Saturday and a carrier bag to put them in afterwards (note we will provide access to changing rooms for day visitors)

• If the forecast is for rain, it will be worth bringing a pair of wellies. These should fit inside your main bag or you should wear them on the journey.

• Toilet bag including:

• Toothbrush & Toothpaste

• Towel

• Hairbrush etc.

• Shampoo/shower gel (shower facilities are provided)

• Suncream

• We will not have access to electricity in our area of the campsite so do not bring hair dryers, straighteners, etc. There are no facilities on the site to charge mobile phones.

• Torch and spare batteries

• Water bottle

• Snack food

• Packed Tea for the picnic on Friday