A lot of people have seen the Jamboree campsite map posted on the Official website. I didn’t like that it didn’t give much perspective of how large the site really is so I composed this map with the above as an overlay and satellite imagery as the base.
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Many moons ago a Buckinghamshire Guide Unit, Hughenden Valley Guides asked for my assistance leading at the Scouting Centenary Camp in Bucks. I quite happily accepted the offer for 2 reasons; the most important being ‘fun’ and the second as a tale for afterdark on a Scout camp in the future. …read more »
To cleverly order the exact amount of kit for the World Scout Jamboree attenders orders were taken from every Unit and person for what they wanted from a catalogue of items, anything from cufflinks to neck-ties was available to order. The orders were taken a whooping 6 months earlier and today we finally get the first of our kit with the World Scout Jamboree Brand on.
…read more »Many members of Go Jamboree have been counting down from 718 days (EuroJam till WSJ) so with this being the last day of a 3 digit countdown the excitement will grow that little bit more than usual.
The 21st World Scout Jamboree is a once in every 4 year opportunity, similar to the Olympics, except that this event is extra special, we are also celebrating the 100 Year anniversary of the first camp at Brownsea Island held by Lord Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell in 1907 with 22 boys. Now a century later there are members in practically every Country and territory across the globe with memberships numbering near 29 million! …read more »
In an aid to raise Funds for her Jambo-fee Merry has organised a Disco near enough to Saint Patrick’s Day for the theme to be green. Since the Disco has been done with some help from her Ranger Guide unit my fair lady will be there, and having beautiful red hair you know she’s going to look good dressing in theme!
…read more »So I’ve gone off to Bristol to get myself setup for University restarting next week and I decide to look up some old friends. Despite missing an update on the ol’ address thing I managed to eventually track them down.
We chat for a while catch up, show off all our new gadgets and find out what each other is doing this year and make plans to go down the pub. Dave’s invited some fellow students from another house to join us and when they arrive low and behold one of them is wearing a World Scout Jamboree T-Shirt! Talk about a small world, and to make things even smaller one of her friends that she has brought with her is a Cub Scout leader …read more »
Over a year ago at the European Scout Jamboree there was an epiphany, the
