Boardmasters Festival 2025 ends, and 58,000 fans head home. A huge amount of abandoned camping kit, including whole tents, chairs, sleeping bags, and more, are left for the volunteer clear-up workers to sift through. Salvageable equipment is donated to homeless charities. Visitors tend to leave equipment as it is less bothersome than to re-pack and carry home. Traditionally, the event organizers clear the site within days, restoring the fields to their original pristine quality.
Local Surfer Luke Skinner made history, winning the Open championship title for the second year running. The event brought an estimated 175,000 extra people to Cornwall this year. Extra police, Transport staff, and security watched over the crowds. making sure the only controversy this year was from acts on stage with political messages, and acts withdrawing for political reasons. Watergate Bay, Cornwall, UK