Its been the first full day of activities today. 

With so many activities on offer at Poacher 2022, you would think lunchtime would give you time to catch your breath. Not so! Lunchtime activities take place every day from 1pm to 1:30pm in the main arena. 

Here we are… Poacher 2022! Kicking off our weeklong festival, the opening ceremony has started us off with a bang. Circus Fest led the parade into the main stage, with the subcamp team towering over us all as they walked in on stilts, showing off their amazing skills - which I am sure they will pass on to their participants. In the middle of the celebrations we were treated to a surprise jamboree proposal, congratulations Dave & Claire! As Folk Fest finished filling in the main stage area, all 5,500 participants were ready for the start of one of the first Jamborees since 2019. 10,000 people will pass through Poacher over the next week making it the 20th biggest settlement in Lincolnshire.

Every day throughout Poacher 2022, JamFM are broadcasting live telling stories from around the site. 

The majority of the Scouts and Guides who are pouring into Poacher today are here for their very first Poacher jamboree, but there are also plenty of veterans on site who have attended our jamboree in the past. For some, such as Adrian Robson of T-Rex ESU, their first Poacher was in 2017. Now camping on the Wonder Fest subcamp, he returns “looking forward to the activities I couldn’t do last time” such as the Subaqua diving school.

Louise from Broughton Guides and Rangers looks back fondly on her experiences of Poachers past.

We have some exciting changes planned for Poacher 2022's subcamps!

At the end of Poacher 2017 the organisers all breathed a sigh of relief – the event had been a real success, now we could take a well-earned break! But as the site cleared and the big clean up began we started to talk about “next time.”