World Scout Jamboree 2007

The 21st World Scout Jamboree is a gathering of Scouts from around the world, for 12 days of adventurous activities, memorable events, and international friendship in a campsite big enough to accommodate tens of thousands of young people.

The 21st World Scout Jamboree will be hosted by the United Kingdom, in celebration of the Centenary of Scouting. It will take place at Chelmsford Hylands Park in Essex, from 27th July to 8th August 2007.

The theme of the 21st World Scout Jamboree in 2007 is “One World, One Promise” – which captures the aspirations and hopes of young people for the future. 40,000 young people will camp, live and work alongside each other. They will come from a variety of different cultures, backgrounds, and religions. Together they will celebrate what unites them, and learn what they can do together to help build a better world.

2007: One World One Promise

Why 2007?

2007 will mark 100 years of Scouting. In 1907, Lord Baden Powell ran his experimental camp, on Brownsea Island on the South coast of England, for 20 young London boys from different social backgrounds.
By 2007 over 500,000,000 women and men from most of the countries and cultures in the world will have promised to live by the Scout Promise and Law.
2007 is an opportunity for us to demonstrate the unique value of Scouting to the world and to celebrate the achievements of 100 years of Scouting.
2007 is the dawn of a new century of Scouting. We should celebrate the future of Scouting and look to how we can improve it to meet the needs of even more young people, their families and communities world-wide.
2007 also marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of our founder, Lord Robert Baden Powell, who was born on 22nd February 1857.

How can you celebrate?

2007 will be a whole year to celebrate with no one single date being the sole focus.

Contribute to the Gift for Peace project. This project will be the main focal point of 2007. All National Scout Organizations will be invited to offer a Gift for Peace to celebrate the Centenary of Scouting. Each Scout, you, your Unit, your Group, can be part of this programme by getting involved in concrete projects aimed at building a better world. Work on these projects will start in 2005.

Examples of Gifts for Peace:
- projects to encourage sustainable development
- projects to encourage the implementation of Human Rights
- projects to promote education and health
The results of these projects should be highlighted in national events organized to celebrate the centenary of Scouting, for example at the Sunrise ceremony on 1st August 2007 (see below). They will be documented and prominently displayed in the Global Development Village at the 21st World Scout Jamboree, the 2007 Centenary Jamboree.
Celebrate the dawn of a new century of the Scout Movement with the Sunrise ceremony on 1st August, 2007, 100 years from the day when Baden Powell first blew his Kudu horn to open the first ever Scout camp on Brownsea Island. This day should be used as a focus to highlight the achievements of Scouting. As the sun rises Scouts will be asked to make a symbolic gesture to demonstrate their commitment to the spread of Scouting and its ideals.
Celebrate locally and nationally significant dates such as the founding of Scouting in your country or local Scout unit.
Hold camps, religious ceremonies and special activities to mark this occasion.
Participate in the Join-in-Centenary activities.