We would love to invite you to our next residents meeting on Thursday 15th May at Llanrhidian Community Hall at 18:30. If you’d like to attend, please RSVP here. We’d love to see you there!This will be an opportunity to:

• Discuss our plans for 2025

• Follow up on all the points raised in our last meeting and give you updates on actions taken

• Cross reference any complaints from last years event and check we have solutions in place where possible 

• Gather your feedback on how we can further improve the festival’s impact on the community

• Answer any questions you may have

If you would like to attend, please RSVP here - we would love to see you there!

We believe in giving back to the community that makes Love Trails Festival possible. The Love Trails Community Fund is our commitment to reinvesting in the local area, by supporting young people, protecting the environment, and improving access to movement and nature.

This fund is more than just financial support; it’s about creating meaningful, long-term change. By working in partnership with local schools, organisations, and with local residents, we aim to empower individuals and provide lasting opportunities for young people in Swansea and Gower.

To kick off the Community Fund we are delighted to be inviting some of the children from Llanrhidian Primary School to Love Trails Festival. We're excited to bring learning to life through movement, nature, and culture. As well as hosting sessions on their curriculum launch day, we’re also inviting pupils to a day at Love Trails Festival 2025, with a hands-on experience that allows curiosity, well-being, and a love for the outdoors. Pupils will be immersed in a festival environment, packed with opportunities to learn, explore, and be inspired.

If you have any ideas on how we can dedicate our time and resources to help the Love Trails Community Fund, please get in touch with us! 

If you are a local business, we would love to help promote what you do to our Love Trails community. We not only wish to promote this for the time of the live event, but also for when guests extend their stay, or come back to visit the Gower on future holidays (our feedback survey confirms they very often do!) 

Our website has over 178,000 unique users with 2.3 million page views over the course of a year, we have an email database of over 46,000 with a combined social following of 74,000. We hope with this reach we can really help drive awareness of your business.

If your business or organisation aligns with our values, you will be featured alongside other local businesses here: www.lovetrailsfestival.co.uk/local-businesses

Please Apply Here if you would like us to speak to you about promoting your business or idea. 

Dedicated Residents Email 

We have a dedicated residents email address: residents@lovetrails.com

Please email us any ideas, feedback or concerns you may have and we will be back to you as soon as possible 

Resident’s communication broadcast

With the aim of improving our direct communication with local residents, we have set up a specific resident contact list. If you or anyone you would like to add their email to our contact list, please share this link with them: https://form.typeform.com/to/iqMl7OaB . This will be to communicate things such as:

• Future residents meetings

• Future resident ticket information

• Information on the one way system

• Temporary speed limits and road crossings 

• License details and site opening times

• All the safety measures we are taking

• Initiatives taken to minimise disruption and maximise positive impact on the Gower and Wales more widely. 

• Requests for your input on ideas and planning 

Litter sweeps

We make a very conscious effort to ensure there is no litter, including a full site sweep and beach clean. If you have any litter concerns at all, please let us know the exact area / location and we will send someone to ensure it is covered (residents@lovetrails.com). Please note, there may be other events going on in the area which contribute to this but we will do our absolute best to ensure we leave what we touch just as we found it! Any signage placed for trail running at Love Trails Festival is used with our logo & description, so you will always know if something belongs to us (as opposed to another event) 

Thank you for welcoming us to your beautiful area. 

Thank you to those who purchased a 2024 resident ticket! Together we raised £1000 which was donated to Wales Air Ambulance. We raised a further £1160 to the Gower Society through our friends & family ticket scheme. 

Local residents in the catchment area of Love Trails Festival are eligible to festival tickets in 2025. If you're on our resident database list you'll have received an email on how to access yours. This has helped us manage numbers fairly and ensure tickets go to those who signed up within the window. It’s important for us to keep things as fair and transparent as possible for everyone in the community.

We really value our relationship with you as the local community, and hope you get to enjoy Love Trails Festival as much as we enjoy hosting it!

If you have a query regarding sound levels, please rest assured we have a dedicated sound team who during live event, work across the area, testing sound levels to ensure we are within the guidelines and licensing terms. If you are concerned that this is not being adhered to, please send your exact address and we can look into this. Sound is very much dependent on wind direction as well as a number of other factors but our team is constantly monitoring the levels in order to mitigate as much disruption as possible for locals. We do appreciate that by virtue of being a festival with music, this could cause an inconvenience for some members of the community and we thank you in advance for your patience and understanding for the period of our event.

Under our event license, amplified and live music is permitted at the following times: Thursday 10th July until 00:00, Friday 11th July until 01:00, Saturday 12th July until 02:00, Sunday 13th July until 23:00. We’ve appointed specialist noise consultants, Joynes Nash, to monitor sound levels and help minimise disruption. 

If you have concerns about noise during the festival, you can call us directly on: 07399 052 363. Please note: this number is for phone calls only. For messages or general queries, please email us at: residents@lovetrails.com

One-Way System & Traffic Management Plan

We understand traffic can be a concern and appreciate your patience as we work to minimise disruption. With approval from Swansea Council and Swansea Highways, we’ve put a detailed traffic management plan in place to help things run safely and smoothly for both residents and guests.

One-Way System

To reduce congestion during our busiest arrival times, a one-way system will be in operation between Leason and Llandimore. Public and school buses will continue to run in both directions as normal.

Ingress (arrival): Thursday 10th July 12pm–Friday 11th July 11:30pm

Traffic westbound only from Leason to Llandimore. A signed diversion route for eastbound traffic from Llanmadoc to Oldwalls will direct vehicles southbound on Kyfts Lane, then eastbound via Burry Green. Residents heading west from Oldwalls to Llanmadoc are advised to please use this route in reverse to avoid queueing near the festival site.

Egress (departure): Monday 14th July 8am–12pm

Traffic eastbound only from Llandimore to Leason. Westbound traffic from Oldwalls to Llanmadoc will follow the same diversion in reverse.

Temporary Speed Limits & Road Crossing

For everyone’s safety, temporary speed limits will be in place between Leason and Llandimore, and near Stembridge Farm. Trained marshals will manage the road crossing between the festival site and the campsite. These measures will be active from 12:00 on Thursday 10th July to 12:00 on Monday 14th July.

Additional Safety Measures

To keep things moving and minimise disruption, we’ll have clear signage and traffic marshals throughout the area. The one-way system is designed to prevent bottlenecks on the narrow stretch between Weobley Castle and Llandimore. We hope this keeps local traffic flowing and supports both residents and businesses. Thank you in advance for using the diversion if you're travelling during this time.

If you would like to volunteer at Love Trails Festival, we'd love to hear from you! Please fill in our volunteer application form here and let us know you're from the local area so we can offer a role that suits you. If you'd like to do something specific, or have any ideas on how you can be involved that would benefit the local residents we'd love to hear them! 

As a team of trail runners and outdoor lovers, creating an ethically conscious festival is at the heart of everything we do. From reducing our environmental impact to promoting sustainable practices, we’re committed to making a difference. Find out more about our sustainability efforts by visiting our Sustainability page here.