Common Ground 2022 will be the next IFM-SEI international camp to be hosted by Woodcraft Folk in the UK. We’ll bring together thousands of children and young people from across the world for ten days of camping, cooperation, and friendship on 29 July-08 August 2022. This will be the first IFM-SEI international camp since Welcome to Another World in 2016. The camp will take place at Kelmarsh Hall in Northamptonshire, England.

•  We guess there will be about 2,000 participants - but there could be up to 3,000 people taking part!
•  The early bird booking deadline is 1 December 2021 - put it in your diary now!
• There is a tiered participation fee which is £105, £155 or £205 depending on your world region.
• The camp will take place on 29 July-08 August 2022 in Kelmarsh Hall, UK
• There is a strong focus on the participation of younger children in the camp and lots of efforts to make it inclusive for under 12s
• Visas will become a priority only in April 2022 and visa support letters will be available from then
• This will be a truly international camp with people coming together from Asia, Africa, Latin America, Middle East and Europe
•  There are 13 exciting programme areas such as Rainbow, Cooperation, Migration and Environment, Media and Arts
• We will be camping, cooking and looking after the site together and everyone from a three-year old to a veteran leader will help to live our cooperative camp life together
• To get a feel for the camp, watch our short video with subtitles in EN/ES/FRA here

Everyone at Common Ground will camp in a village and each village will be made up of at least one Woodcraft Folk group and one international group. International partnerships bring new friendships and opportunities to live and educate together before, during and after Common Ground. International delegations will be paired with a Woodcraft Folk group with whom you will share activities, experience and fundraise to help towards your participation fee, visa and travel costs. Some organisations may already have international partnerships and that's great, just let us know. If you don't have an existing partnership please contact us at international@commonground.camp as soon as possible to organise this! You will need to tell us if you want to come and who you would like to partner with before December 2021 at latest.

The theme for Common Ground is international friendship and solidarity. In keeping with this, IFM-SEI and Woodcraft have applied for external grants to offer some funded places and a travel budget for young people who need this. We intend to fill these places first, so do check the International Projects section of the Common Ground website to see if your MO is a partner. If the participant numbers grow, Common Ground will also aim to offer an additional solidarity budget centrally. But this will depend on camp fees raised and the final budget available. Delegations will have to fundraise some of the costs with their partner group in the UK and we have lots of advice and support about how to do this. It's important to start early though!

There is a dedicated Common Ground website that has all of the information you need to know and all of the updates will be posted here. Click the button below to check it out!

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