A small campsite in Sweden. A home for us, and a welcome for you.

We’re a young family with two children and a cat, planning a small campsite in Sweden. A few places to stay, woodland nearby, hot showers and a personal welcome. We’re inviting you to help bring Noorderwoud to life.

Our first milestone: €5,000

We’re starting with the first €5,000 towards Noorderwoud: a home for our family and a small campsite in Sweden. It’s part of our €200,000 total working plan. Come along for the search, the decisions and, one day, the first welcome at the gate.

Our plans and project notes have a home of their own. Come and have a look around: Visit our website · Read our blog

We’re still looking for our own place. The cover is a stock photograph, chosen as inspiration for the setting we hope to find.

We want to make a home in Sweden and run a campsite together. To spend more of our days outside, grow some of our own food and make a living by welcoming people to a place we care for ourselves.

We picture a few furnished tents and camping pitches beside the woods. A vegetable garden taking shape. An old table, sanded and ready for another summer. The cat will probably claim the best chair before the first guests arrive.

The kind of place we’d love to find.

Arriving after a long drive, knowing there’s a warm shower and somewhere comfortable to sit. Having room for the children to explore while you finish a cup of coffee. Being welcomed by someone who lives there and knows the place. Those are the things we want Noorderwoud to get right.

We’d keep it small enough to look after ourselves, with woodland nearby and good places to visit within reach. Over time, we want to add things we’ve grown, repaired or built.

What your support would help create

The first €5,000 will help build a fund for finding our place and working through the practical questions: property visits, inspections and local advice when the right opportunity comes along. Anything we set aside stays with the home and campsite project, ready for the next step. We’ll share what each next step needs as the search takes shape.

We’re working towards €200,000 to buy a place and get a small campsite started. These are working figures, with taxes still to be worked out. We’ll refine the balance as we find a property, check permissions and obtain quotes.

• Around €70,000 — a house and land, purchase costs, inspections and essential work.

• Around €70,000 — the first guest accommodation, camping pitches, toilets, showers, water and basic facilities.

• Around €40,000 — moving and getting established, including €24,000 for twelve months of our family’s private living costs.

• Around €20,000 — platform and payment fees, contingency and costs still to be worked out.

The home and campsite would belong to us or our company. We would run it as our family business, with the aim of earning our living from welcoming guests. Contributions would be voluntary gifts towards that project; ownership would remain with us or our company.

A smaller start, or a little more time

If we raise less than €200,000, we may begin with fewer places to stay or save the donations towards a later start while we build up the remaining budget. Money set aside will stay reserved for the home and campsite project described here. We’ll choose the scale and timing once we know what the available funds can realistically support.

Donations will be paid to the bank account of the organiser behind Project Noorderwoud, for our family’s project. We’ll keep a separate record of money received, spent and set aside. Preparation can include property visits, inspections, professional advice and permission applications before a purchase. The family living allowance is for getting established in Sweden.

We’ll share a project and spending update at least every three months, including while funds are being saved for a later start. We’ll explain significant changes before committing money to them.

If we decide the project cannot go ahead, we’ll stop fundraising, publish what has been spent and what remains, and work with GoFundMe to arrange refunds of unspent donations. Preparation costs already incurred will be included in that account. GoFundMe’s rules and any applicable donor rights will continue to apply.

Come along as it takes shape.

We’ll share project notes about the places we’re considering, the choices we’re making and what things cost.

When practical work begins in Sweden, we plan to share an occasional YouTube series. From getting the place ready to restoring furniture and preparing for the first guests, you’ll be able to see what your support is helping to create. Written updates will continue throughout, including when plans change or take longer.

From our project notes — 25 October 2026

A closer look at Finnsta.

We’ve been comparing property listings online. Finnsta 713, near Fränsta, is one example: a 66 m² home on 3.1 hectares, advertised at 390,000 SEK. The published forest report lists about 1.9 hectares of woodland. A visit and assessment of its suitability for camping would come next.

At our planning rate of 11.1 SEK to €1, that is about €35,100. Within the €70,000 property allowance, that would leave roughly €34,900 for purchase costs, inspections and essential work.

The listing describes a kitchen, a shower room, a wood-burning stove and an outbuilding. It also lists a private well and wastewater system. We’d need to establish their condition and capacity for guests, the permissions required, and realistic local demand before deciding whether a campsite could work there.

The asking price was checked on 25 October 2026; the euro figure uses a planning exchange rate rather than a bank quote. We would take these questions to the agent, the municipality and local specialists.

Finnsta 713 — agent’s listing and forest report: Finnsta listing and forest report

Be part of the beginning

If Noorderwoud sounds like your kind of place, we’d love to have you along. You can help us get started with a contribution or by sharing the page.

The family behind Noorderwoud

Cover photograph: Jonas Eriksson / Unsplash.