HARM REDUCTION

We are very happy to again have a wide offering of Harm Reduction services at Earth Frequency Festival 2025. Two services are teaming up to ensure we can provide the best quality care and education at our festival. We have The ConsciousNest team returning for their 8th year, which will have a home base at the festival and roaming volunteers helping everyone requiring non-medical support and care. Hi-Ground will be returning for their second year supplying free educational and safer partying resources to all our interested patrons. 

The ConsciousNest is a community-run harm reduction service which aims to provide an educational, conscious and safe alternative space within the music event community. The services that will be offered at Earth Frequency festival 2025 are harm reduction education and support-focused drop-in spaces. Across all areas, we hope to install healthy and positive alternatives whilst educating young people to make informed and conscious decisions when partying in a friendly and non-judgmental manner.

The harm reduction information space is run by the Hi-Ground team who are also qualified in social work, drug and alcohol services, youth work and people with a particular interest and passion for harm reduction in music festivals. The aim is to provide lots of resources and engage in conversation with patrons to reduce the risks involved with alcohol and drug consumption and educate partygoers on how to be safer while having fun.

ConsciousNest is a support space which aims to assist with patrons’ wellbeing and provides engaging activities by the crew for people to stimulate communication, connection and creative healing. Anyone is welcome into this space 24 hours a day during the festival if they require support, a friendly chat, somewhere to lie down, a cup of tea or water. This space is run by qualified youth AOD outreach workers, registered nurses, art therapists, community services, suicide intervention training, mental health first aid, arts psychotherapies and people with experience in holding space for others during difficult times. 

The final service the ConsciousNest will offer at the festival is a roaming cooling and caring team who will look after hydrating patrons with water and fruit, keep an eye out for the general well-being of people on the dance floors and provide on-the-spot harm reduction information and party safe items such as earplugs, condoms, water and fruit.