 | | Scout Leaders Rob, Debs, Paul & Terri. |
Ahead of the 2007 21st World Scout Jamboree for 40,000 young people involved in Scouting and Guiding around the world, the UK Scout Association, who will be hosting this event, have brought together a team of activity experts and enthusiastic volunteers in EuroJam that will provide valuable experience for 2007. Helping to deliver the programme at EuroJam will be 3 Scout leaders from Jersey: Paul Aked; Tim Saunders; and Debbie Dryland. Paul, a member of the Island Training Team supporting adults in Jersey to become recognised Scout leaders and assistants, and Tim Saunders, Scout Leader with the 3rd St. Saviour Scout group, will be joining the Euroville UK pavilion at EuroJam from 6-7 August. One of six European themed activity zones, the UK village will provide insight into the different lifestyles of the region and give young people an opportunity to experience a flavour of the community and culture. As a member of the Pyrenees Sub Camp management team with responsibility for programme, Debbie Dryland, Assistant Scout Leader with the 10th St. Brelade Scout group and the Island's 2007 centenary year of Scouting representative, will be on-site at EuroJam for three weeks, from 25 July to 12 August, helping to finalise the preparations ahead of the participants arrival and the Opening Ceremony on Saturday 30 July 2005. With a community of nearly 1,000 people making their temporary homes on each of the eight Sub Camps at EuroJam, their respective Sub Camp management teams have responsibility for ensuring the health, welfare and happiness of the participants camped there. Twenty countries are currently represented on the Pyrenees Sub Camp and not all of them from Europe: American, Canadian Korean, Kuwaiti and Hong Kong Scouts will live alongside their Scouting counterparts from northern Europe, the Mediterranean and different locations around the British Isles. Debbie's role is to make sure that they take full advantage of the activities on offer, from first thing in the morning until last thing at night. Young people can take part in adventure, team-based sports and games, arts and crafts, interactive science and learning, community projects and spiritual awareness activities, as well as find out about the world at large by meeting and making friends with people of other faiths, cultures and traditions. By taking part at EuroJam, Debbie, Paul and Tim hope to bring back to the Island their experience of being involved in a large scale, international event for a series of local centenary celebratory events being planned for Scouts and Guides throughout the Channel Islands. To help raise awareness about Jamboree, Rob Iskett, Assistant Scout Leader with the 10th St. Brelade Scout group and a member of the International Service Team at the World Scout Jamboree that took place in Chile in 1999, is holding a EuroJam participation day at the Jersey Scout Centre on Wednesday 3 August for local and visiting UK Scouts. To coincide with the Celebrate Europe Day festival at EuroJam, this local event will give Island Scouts an opportunity to meet Jamboree participants on-line and take part in some of the same-day activities. It is hoped that by providing young people with a taster of this year's big Scouting event in the UK, they will be encouraged to attend the 2007 World Scout Jamboree as part of the Jersey contingent of Scouts and Guides that will join with 40,000 others at the height of the World Scout Association's centenary celebrations. | 
