No one would be here, and Poacher wouldn’t happen, without the 1500 staff that run the event. Many of them have been here for over a week before the event. Nothing can happen without them; everything that you see has been built by the build team; every fence must be placed; all toilets need constant maintenance; all these needs organising.

Bagel is a seven-and-a-half-month-old guide dog in training. Throughout training, guide dogs learn many tasks, including learning how to walk centrally along the pavement, whilst avoiding obstacles along the route, as well as finding crossings, doors and places that are visited regularly. Bagel was sponsored by 92-year-old holocaust survivor Harry, who cycled 900 miles during covid to raise money for Bagel to be trained, hence the Jewish name Bagel. Harry is still cycling and still visits Bagel and his trainer Karine.

Robbie White has graced our stage and social media feeds all week, but who is the man behind the microphone?

The 50/50 team offers 14-17 year olds the opportunity to come to Poacher as a participant for half of the time and a helper on the staff team for the other half which will enable you to build up your work experience and see what Poacher is like from the other side.

It's time to register your interest in becoming a staff member at Poacher 2022! 

This week has been a worrying one, and with new measures introduced to control the spread of Covid-19, Scouting and Guiding face-to-face activities have been called off.

We’re getting closer to Bookings opening for Poacher 2022! We hope you’re as excited as we are! 

As for all Guiding and Scouting events they couldn’t take place without volunteers. Without volunteers at Poacher there would be limited activities, no medical team, no admin function and no leaders to bring and support the participants – there wouldn’t be a Poacher as we know it.

2019 has been a busy year for the Poacher 2022 Senior Management Team and the Senior Leadership Team.