![]() Ms Johnson said it was something she related to. Even with the option to pay £15 each month for four months, some campers have had to forego this year’s trip because of financial difficulties. “We’ve sold 26 pay-down option tickets and we’ve sold 42 regular entry tickets,” Ms Johnson said. ![]() ![]() But the uptake figures suggest campers now do need to stagger their payments. “We never had this before – we never needed it,” she said. Ticket sales for entry and activities have been slower this year and Ms Johnson also introduced a ClearPay payment option for the first time to help struggling campers spread the costs over an extended period. “It was for black women like me who didn’t have money to go anywhere, couldn’t afford to go out to nice dinners or go to the theatre or go on holidays to take care of our mental wellbeing.”īut the significant increase in cost, which Ms Johnson said she is having to pass down from facilitators, has prompted her to announce this year will be the last camping trip she will organise. “I wanted it to be a financially accessible trip,” Ms Johnson said. The price has increased from £15 when the group started in 2018 and can go up to as much as £120 in 2023 with activity add-ons. To cover her costs, Ms Johnson, who does not run BGCT for profit, charges campers £60 for the most basic package – base rate entry fee. She told i she is having to shut the group down because of prohibitive prices. Tianna Johnson, who created Black Girls Camping Trip (BGCT), an event for black women and non-binary people to experience the great outdoors, tweeted last month that she had seen prices rise by 265 per cent at one campsite since 2018. Opinion | Wild camping on Dartmoor has shaped my life – a deal must be struck for the next generation 21 January, 2023 The Dartmoor wild camping ban has snatched away access to England's beauty 13 January, 2023 My £25-per-night Cotswolds holiday – and five ways to have a UK winter break for under £50 15 December, 2022īut for those who opt for camping because it is cheap, the increases are significant in the context of rising energy bills and food prices. ![]()
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