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2007 was a special year where every one of
our 17,000 members across the County took up the opportunity
to celebrate the Centenary of Scouting and to look to the future of Scouting.
We obviously had the 21st World Scout Jamboree “in our backyard” but 2007 was more than just a Jamboree.
If you add together every UK person who attended the World Scout
Jamboree, there were another 49 people who did not, so
the Centenary of Scouting was for everyone to celebrate through
local events and with the whole Scouting family.
During May of 2007, Centenary Camps enabled every member of scouting across the UK to spend a weekend under canvas. Thurrock and Chelmsford Districts posted their photos online.
1st August 2007 - 8am
On 1 August 1907, Scouting's Founder Robert Baden-Powell blew his kudu horn on Brownsea Island at 08:00 to open the world's first Scout camp. Soon thereafter, Scouting began to quickly spread around the world and now exists in 216 countries and territories.
100 years to the day, on 1 August 2007, every Scout, from every WOSM country, marked the Centenary and looked to the past, present and, most importantly, the future of Scouting.
Scouting's Sunrise in Essex
This was a great opportunity for every member in Essex to celebrate Scouting's Sunrise, whether it was with your Group or District event we all showed that scouting is alive and ready for the next 100 years!
With four and a half units of Scouts and Guides from across Essex, we sent our largest group of youngsters to represent the county to a World Scout Jamboree And with the fact that the 21st World Scout Jamboree was held on our doorstep, at Hylands Park, Chelmsford, those youngsters had the chance to welcome the world to Essex.
For the youngsters, this was a once in a lifetime event and they will spent some busy months before they arrived fundraising for fees and team building at unit camps to ensure they were ready for their 12 days of adventure with over 40,000 people from nearly every country in the world.
Click here to experience Sunrise with Colchester Estuary...
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Essex was the proud host...
The Centenary of Scouting was time
for everyone to celebrate and Essex was especially proud to
welcome the world to Chelmsford where the biggest ever World
Scout Jamboree took place at Hylands Park over the summer
of 2007. Photo Galleries
Take a look at the fun our units had while preparing for the event, both during unit camps and at fundraising events and also what they got up to at the World Scout Jamboree.
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Throughout the World Scout Jamboree Scouts from Essex told their Jamboree story on the County Website by writing a blog (an online diary). To read their blogs visit the Essex 2007 Blogs.
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