Are you busy preparing your caravan for the coming season of outings and holidays? Then you’ve probably earned yourself a breather while you catch up on some of these the latest UK caravan news headlines.
Meet the winners of the Owner Satisfaction Awards 2025
The awards season has kicked off with one of the most telling of them all, the Owner Satisfaction Awards, revealed by Practical Caravan magazine on the 18th of February in an event co-hosted by the Camping and Caravanning Club.
Whether you’re interested in buying a new or pre-loved caravan – or simply curious to discover what others think of the one you own – here is a brief listing of some of those best-liked by recent customers:
Manufacturers of new caravans
- Hull-based British manufacturer Coachman and the Slovenian company Adria scooped the gold awards;
- the Swift Group, Bailey, and Elddis/EHG all claimed silver awards;
Manufacturers: pre-loved caravans
- Coachman won a gold award in this category too, along with Lunar, the Swift Group, and Bailey;
- Elddis/EHG won the silver award;
Best manufacturer – new and pre-loved caravans combined
- it probably came as no surprise, therefore, that Coachman won the coveted gold award for the overall best manufacturer in both new and pre-loved categories;
- Bailey, the Elddis Group, and the Swift Group all claimed silver awards.
There were also prizes for the best-supplying dealers of both new and pre-loved caravans.
Approved Workshops Scheme award winners announced
An event sponsored by the National Caravan Council (NCC) recently recognised companies participating in the Approved Workshops Scheme for caravan services.
This year’s top award for Fixed Workshop services went to Kirk Caravan Services of Lanark, Lanarkshire, in Scotland, while the winner of the category for mobile services went to Kurts Mobile Caravan Services, based near Thirsk in North Yorkshire. Both workshops have been members of the Approved Workshops Scheme for many years.
Finalists in this event were also largely old hands in caravan services and included:
- JB Caravan and Trailer Services of Staffordshire (which won the Approved Workshop award in 2021 and 2023, and was a finalist in 2022);
- Cara-Fix Midlands, of Staffordshire (the winner of the 2022 competition and finalist in 2021 and 2023);
- Tourer Techs Caravan Services of Highbridge in Somerset (winner of the top award in 2023); and,
- Caravan Motorhome Care Services, of Bristol.
Simpler Recycling: what you need to know
In an announcement on the 7th of February, the Caravan and Motorhome Club lent its unequivocal support to the government’s sustainability campaign called Simpler Recycling.
The Simpler Recycling campaign in England follows a successful trial in Wales and introduces standardised separation and collection of materials for recycling – replacing the hotchpotch of schemes run by different councils throughout the country.
In keeping with the initiative, the Caravan Club is setting up new waste and recycling areas – prominently near site entrances – where members can separate their waste into the appropriate recycling bins ready for collection by specialist waste processors.
The Great Caravan, Motorhome and Holiday Home Show is called off for 2025
Caravanners in the north east of England in particular are likely to be disappointed by the news that this year’s Great Caravan, Motorhome and Holiday Home Show has been cancelled, announced Practical Caravan magazine on the 31st of January.
The show is organised by the Hull and East Riding Caravan Manufacturers Association (HERCMA) which gave scant details about its reasons for cancelling the event – other than a reference to the “financial challenges currently being faced by manufacturers within the leisure sector”.
Past events have attracted more than 22,000 visitors and the organisers stressed that the recent cancellation would not necessarily mean the end of the show for all time.