Our annual Trailer Park competition returns for 2025!

We are on the hunt for creative teams to invent, design, build and host their own caravan or mobile structure at Latitude. The most jaw-dropping and inspiring ideas will be given pride of place in the festival, joining the bustling metropolis of our beloved Trailer Park, located in the forest by the Waterfront Stage and a firm favourite for seasoned Latitude goers.

What’s more, we’re offering bursaries to help bring your amazing ideas to life!

Artists, architects, designers, theatre-makers, performance groups and creators of all sorts, with an appetite for what makes a festival really sing, will be given an opportunity to let their creative hair down. Up to 20 grants (ranging between £500 and £3000) are being offered, for designing, building and presenting your own Art Caravans.

And that’s it – you turn a caravan (or a vehicle/trailer with wheels that can come and go) into something implausibly wonderful, and we will give it a home from home, in Trailer Park.

Your design proposals will be read by our judging panel, and we’ll choose the best ideas and work with you to bring your designs to life. If all goes according to plan, you’ll be allowed to bring up to 10 friends and collaborators to help you activate your caravan (and you’ll get to stay in the Performer’s Campsite!)

The deadline for entries is Saturday 1st March, so it’s time to get creative!

Things to remember

• These grants are not for your labour; they are for materials or skills that you do not have! We are looking for projects that stand on their own as installations, independent of performances or activities, although these may well accompany and complete the installation. They do not need to be roadworthy, but it would definitely help if they were. Most importantly, they need to be safe. They need to be about the design of the exterior as well as the interior, and applicants should think about lighting as the area operates late at night as well as during the daytime.
• Please note that this project will require a significant time investment, and the ability to meet firm deadlines, and is going to need to be fuelled by artistic and practical passion.
  The number of crew passes permitted to host your venue for the duration of the festival is 10, and these include camping  in the Performer’s Campsite.
• In your application – the process is very straightforward and not at all taxing – think about your visuals as well as your words. We prefer sketches as well as CAD drawings, but sketches more so. A good visual presentation really is the key to our hearts. Your budget need only be a few lines of indicative spending.
• You do need to be free for the weekend itself, and to deliver your entry onto site, ideally the weekend beforehand.

Past submissions

To give you a sense of the company you might be keeping, some of the incredible ideas that have materialised in past years are listed below. Have a look because they will give you a sense of scale and expectation.

• To Let – A team of real estate agents try to sell a decrepit caravan to passers-by.
• Caravan Club Extravaganza – the front side folds down to become a cabaret stage for performances.
• Terrible Terry’s Jail – A caravan with jail bars on the windows for misbehaving festival goers, who then have to find the escape plan.
• Quizivan – a game show quiz complete with sparkly-suited host in an open-sided caravan.
• Narnia – into a caravan… and out the back is a snowy kingdom.
• Gangsta Granny – A collection of senior ladies knitting everything that moves, and serving tea to a hip-hop soundtrack.
• Pirates of the Caravean – a conversion into a theatrical pirate ship full of raving peg-legs
• Cable Car – a caravan reworked into a cable car in the Alps, perfect for an Apres Ski party
• Glam Pigs – a glamorous suburban scene, inhabited by gorgeous, sassy, very vain pigs
• Carantula – a small car suspended 10 feet in the air – by 8 steel spider legs
• Calvin DeCline – A crestfallen designer launches his latest cologne ‘Regression for Men’ on a makeshift catwalk

This is for kitchen table dreamers, not for clipboard professionals. It’s for artists and designers, and for clowns and theatre-makers (and those drawn to silliness rather than those looking to strut). Spectacular contraptions and comedic performance are sexier than a DJ in a caravan. This competition is for those who have longed for a trap door into the community that makes festivals, to try something daring and creative, and not to have to pack in your job to do so. It’s so much fun working – particularly at Latitude, amongst all festivals  – with a collective of pals with a deadline and then suddenly, immediately, a giant audience before you. If you are even slightly tempted, take the plunge. Hands-on making is becoming rarer, so seize the moment.

– Hugo & Roz Jellet, Trailer Park Creative Producers

How to enter

Click the application link below.

Please read our FAQs and our T&Cs

If you still have questions, email trailerparkcaravanchallenge@gmail.com.