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The Eastern region event was a Christmas Dinner at the Three Counties Asylum near Hitchin. At least that's what it used to be called in less enlightened days. It's now part of the Bannatyne Leisure empire and called The Orchard and is next to their health spa. The buildings, from the Victorian era, are stunning and the restaurant is in what was the chapel. Apparently there was a real scandal there some years ago when the resident vicar married someone forty years younger. The Orchard is a great

This year marks a personal milestone. I will be celebrating my fortieth! Birthday? No, that has long passed! This year is my fortieth anniversary of becoming a Naturist! I did not want this celebration to pass unrecognised, so I asked my husband if we could retrace my steps and go to where I first stripped off and ran into the sea, so I could do it all over again. But as an older lady, I must admit, I did not run as fast as last time! Four decades ago, I was a staff member on a seconda

Almost 500 naked guests filled Splash Landings Hotel and Waterpark at Alton Towers last weekend - and had blast! There were stretch classes, yoga, guided tours of the Alton Towers gardens, crafts, indoor archery, life drawing, body painting, waterpolo, aquarobics, a mad quiz and even madder bingo! Zoo Lab brought snakes and other creatures and got up close and personal with us and we danced the night away to live music. Best of all was the joy of being amongst our wonderful, relaxed communi

500 Naturists will descend on Alton Towers' Splash Landings Hotel and Waterpark this weekend for our thirteenth annual naked weekend. It's a complete sell-out! The theme park is closed at this time of year but BN members have the run of the entire Hotel and Waterpark. Clothes are not needed anywhere from 6pm on Friday night until midday on Sunday. In addition to all the fun there is to be had in the waterpark, guests will enjoy sports and exercise classes, quizzes, life drawing, live bands

Last weekend Naturist Team GB headed to the International Naturist Federation (INF) Swimming Gala in Paris.... Well done to the team who retained our standing as second in the world with a massive 24 gold medals and a whopping 40 medal haul in total!

It was great to be back at Oasis Beach Pool in Bedford last weekend for another Waterpark event. Around 120 Naturists from all over came to have a fun session in the pool and on the slides.   The event was recently revived by a member from the Eastern region contacting the pool directly and once permission was granted, the British Naturism Event Team took it on from there and made it happen – a perfect example of how some BN Team Work with a push from a local member can really make a differe

Early October saw our second venture to the land of the south folk - Folkcafe near Bury St Edmunds, and again it was a sellout. 37 guests attended and enjoyed starters of sharing platters of mediterranean treats. This was followed by either beef and barley-bean casserole or lentil and aubergine bake and finished off with chocolate torte or apple and almond cake, both served with ice-cream. The food was delicious, the venue was delightful and the company and conversation convivial. There wa

Naturists came from all over the UK coming together to help shape the future of BN. On Saturday around forty members from our Eastern and LASER regions met at one of the oldest sun clubs in the UK, The Sunfolk Society, established in 1931, for a Vision Day. It was the second in the series and and was designed for feedback and discussion rather than presentation based. Most of the time is given to members to collaborate and have their say.  We also held our AGM - another opportunity for

A great weekend was had by all in Amsterdam for the BN-organised weekend to Spa Zuiver. It's a huge and amazing place with multiple saunas, pools, hot tubs and relaxing areas with a hotel in the same building and restaurants and bars. Needless to say, swimming costumes are banned in the spa area. Our group also spent time in the city, as our photo shows, enjoying unseasonably warm weather. Two more such weekends are planned for 2020. Keep an eye out for details.

The summer may be coming to an end, but Naturist events in the UK keep going... Keep an eye on our various event listings and find details of fantastic gatherings happening soon, including nude evenings at top waterparks, hotel weekends (including the best one of the year at Alton Towers), overseas holidays, and hundreds of regular swimming sessions where a costume is not needed! See you there!   The BN event ticket sales website Big Days Out The BN website calendar

Of all the places I thought I’d be having a conversation about what motivates me as a Naturist and the finer points of our legal rights, the bar at the Corrour Station House probably wasn’t at the top of my list… The idea for the Highland Wilderness and Walking Weekend, which took place on the Corrour Estate in the central Highlands of Scotland in July, seemed perhaps too ‘specialist’ when I came up with it in 2018. Would people really be interested in a weekend staying in a very remote you

Eighteen radio interviews in one day! The BBC's General News Service picked up this story and decided it was worth covering. They promoted the idea to all BBC local and regional radio stations and for two solid hours we were interviewed, one by one, by a variety of presenters and shows - some recorded, some live on air. Later, a few more stations, including BBC Radio 5Live, who broadcast nationally, asked us to speak.  It was a great platform for us to promote Naturism in the UK (which

A shout out to Bare Necessities Tour and Travel, the world's leading providers of nude cruises, who are kindly sponsoring three big  British Naturism events this year - at Blackpool, Nudefest and Alton Towers - tickets now on sale for the latter! We are very grateful for sponsorship support which allows us to add activities to the evens which otherwise may not be possible.  Bare Necessities run three or four cruises each year and are currently taking bookings for: Western Caribbea

It’s great to announce that we had one of the busiest national galas in years take place at Aylestone Leisure Centre near Leicester. Around 60 swimmers took to the pool for an evening of both competitive an ‘have a go’ swimming. That’s the real attraction of the BN Gala. Nobody is expected to be the next Olympian and whilst it’s hard not to notice there are some are better swimmers than others - it’s about taking part, having fun and challenging yourself. It’s all official - British Naturis

It's our last full day today at the UK's biggest Naturist festival. Around 500 guests have enjoyed a packed programme of activities including sports, health and well-being, art and crafts, music and entertainment, talks and workshops, naked trips to local venues including a cider farm, a steam train, dining in a pub and a house and garden.  We've been welcomed by the local community with many companies and people coming in to run sessions. BBC Radio Somerset's Andy Bennett even broadcast hi

Members from all points of the South West region gathered at Lower Poulza Post naturist camping and caravan site, situated on a working farm, near Bude in Cornwall over the weekend for the annual Rally. With lovely weather a bonus, the weekend started with smiles and high expectations of a relaxed and friendly couple of days, and from the beginning to the end that’s what you got.  We gathered on the Friday evening for a glass of bubbly around the campfire and new friendships were soon made or fr

The Great British Skinny Dip returns to the UK today, and we've got venues across the country throughout the month of July. Where will you go? Choose from beaches, lakes, rivers, pools, outdoor lidos, Naturist clubs, and campsites, in:   Aberdeenshire Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Cheshire Cumbria Dorset Durham East Lothian East Sussex Glamorgan Gwynedd Hertfordshire Norfolk Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Som

The Hertfordshire naked dining revolution started by Robert Finney last year goes from strength to strength. In the latest dining experience we went back to the great We R Cakes restaurant, near Knebworth. This time it was with a Moroccan theme and the head chef once again showed she can do the double. Not only was the quality of the food really high but the quantity was fantastic. Nobody could possibly have left hungry! The Round the World theme was continued having had Greek, Chinese, Italian

One of the very few negatives of attending British Naturism events is the come down - the back to reality feeling you get the moment you put your clothes back on and return to a clothed world... particularly so after a weekend like our British Naturism Woodland Weekend in the Lake District where you can embrace two days in one of the most beautiful areas of the UK. This year's event was another great success. With almost double the numbers, and yet still not cramped or crowded due to the be

If you are reading this and you are a member of British Naturism then you should feel proud of yourself for that decision. Your membership and subscription fee allows us to do our work on behalf of all Naturists. Thank you. If you are reading this and are not a member, or have allowed your membership to lapse, we hope that the information in this article will help you to make the easy decision to join and get many more benefits AND be part of a vibrant, meaningful community. It costs l

There was a time you might have waited all year for a Naturist related item on the BBC but now they all seem to have turned up at once! It started in January with a short series on BBC3 called “The Naked Truth”. Four fifteen minute documentaries about completely different subjects but all filmed naked with little censorship. The series featured episodes on tattoos, loose skin, male body image and amputees. The BBC blurb said “The Naked Truth gives a voice to young people as they share their reve

A superb video of the good people of BN member club Desford Swim was launched on the BBC News site this weekend. (Seems the BBC really can't get enough of us...) Our thanks to them for helping to raise the profile in such an excellent, sensible, calm way and for coming up with their 'Women in Naturism' initiative in the first place AND having the foresight (and good sense) to issue a press release so that everyone got to hear about it. Most praise of all though for the members of the club f

At the end of May, the NKD youth and families festival returned to Dorset for a weekend of parties, minimalist camping, holi paint fights, and basking in the intense sunshine.  As an event designed for Young British Naturist (YBN) members and recent YBN graduates, now bringing their own families with them, the tone is quite different from that at our other events.  NKD shows how the portfolio of British Naturism events is diversifying to target different groups, so if organised Naturism has not

Please forgive the cheesy title of this article, but it is a direct quote from BBC 1's Have I Got News for You TV show where last week, the guest publication in the 'Missing Words' round was our very own BN Magazine. It didn't come as a surprise - we'd been approached by the Beeb some weeks before and signed a licence to allow them permission to use it on the initial programme and repeats, including on other channels that they sell their programmes to. So, yes, inevitably, there were giggle

Saturday, 13th April saw British Naturism return to one of its most popular swimming venues, Waterworld in Stoke.  Naturists have been visiting Waterworld for over 20 years, and it is easy to see why. Waterworld is one of the best water parks in the UK and are always fantastic hosts. The staff are friendly and the café open for when people need a brief break from the many, exciting slides. It is a sign of how naturism in the UK is growing right now, that this weekend welcomed the largest nu