Our annual Trailer Park competition returns for 2026

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 25 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.

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 one month today, on Thursday 5th March 2026 at 11:59PM – 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 creations we hosted in 2025 are listed below. Have a look because they will give you a sense of scale and expectation.

• The Ryanair Customer Service Desk – where you experience the very best in aviation care.
• CaraVandal – where graffiti is the go.
• The Lil’ Trailer of Horrors – a dreadful story unfolds in the smallest theatre on site.
•  PianoVan – a set of ivories is built into a steampunk trailer.
• The Quickie Chapel – for all your Vegas needs.
• The Confess-a-Van – for the absolving of last night’s horrors.
• Calvin Decline – a cutbacks-tastic catwalk where it’s all gone a bit glittery-jacket, and his nemesis Diamante Bling who has tracked him down.
• The Totally Top Secret and Entirely Unsuspicious Undercover Caravan – a HQ for warmongering fairies.
• Wildflower Fortunes – where flora and tarot meet.
• Fire Garden Birdbox – a Jurassic-scale skeleton-bird that travels the land breathing fire at all who come close to her metal nest.
• Suffolk’s Saucy Seaside – a Southwold-inspired beach party.
• Dark Horse – where festivalgoers can take and develop group photographs using coffee grounds and soda crystals.
• Apres Ski – a real-life alpine snow scene where it is always 4pm.

HOW TO ENTER

Click the application link below. If you still have questions, email trailerparkcaravanchallenge@gmail.com.