ISSUE 1 – SATURDAY – 26/7/19 WELCOME – BIENVENUE WILLKOMMEN – KUWAKARIBISHA خوش آمدید
BREAK THE NEWS!
Do you have a story that you think we should be covering in The Winning Post, or on our CamJam social media pages? Then come and find a member of the media team, who should be easy to spot in their bright orange hi-vis, and tell us all about it!
SLIP, SLOP, SLAP
We’re looking to have a very hot and sunny week here at CamJam this year, despite how today’s weather looks! This means that everyone needs to make sure to stay safe and hydrated! Advice from the CamJam Medical Team is: Welcome, everyone, to CamJam 2019! We’ve returned to Slip on a shirt Huntingdon racecourse for our fifth event here! Slop on some suncream (50+ is best!) We’re hoping you’ve got yourselves feeling at home in Slap on a hat your subcamps, and that you’re starting to get to know your new neighbours. We’re happy to welcome contingents not just from across the UK, but also from Canada, Sierra Leone, Pakistan, Denmark, Uganda, France and Luxembourg. We’ve got a packed programme of over 50 fun-filled activities lined up for you over the week, along with lots of other things going on in your subcamps and across the site.
TODAY’S WEATHER
HIGH: 19ºC LOW: 14ºC
Cloudy with some showers
Make sure you’re drinking plenty of water, and keep your bottle topped up by using the taps in your subcamp!
LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE!
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AN OPPORTUNITY FOR REFLECTION
Each evening everyone will have the chance to catch a few quiet moments with our welfare and chaplaincy team in the subcamp headquarters. The team will be around at 20:30 each evening to welcome all young people and leaders to join them and reflect on the events of the day. Anything can be shared with them, whether on or off camp. The sessions will be held in the following subcamp headquarters; Monday at 20:30 in the Pacific Ocean HQ. Tuesday at 20:30 in the Indian Ocean HQ. Wednesday at 20:30 in the Atlantic Ocean HQ. If there is demand, they will hold more, similar, sessions.
BIRTHDAYS
We’ve got a few people celebrating their birthday on the very first day of camp! Our best wishes go to: Jess, 26 – Staff Caroline, 42 – Staff Matthew, 12 – The Foresters Morgan, 11 – 1st Greasley Scarlett, 14 – 2nd & 3rd Lexden Stolz, 19 – St. Laurent
EXPLORER & RANGER CHILL OUT
The Ice House truly is the place to be at Camjam this year. Being managed by Taff (look out for his bright blue hair) and his team, this area is specially designed for fourteen to seventeen-and-364-day year olds to allow them to chill out away from the younger Scouts and Guides. Open from 10am till late every day of the Jamboree. It’s going to be the home for brand new challenges taking place every night, ranging from constructing towers with marshmallows and spaghetti, an elusive baked bean challenge, snow blizzard rescue and of course a 4-person sack race. There will also be a week-long 8-person t-shirt relay with the grand finale taking place at the closing ceremony. Taking part in challenges not your thing? Don’t worry, there’s plenty of other things to check out. There’s a mocktail bar with some classy drinks, a pallet chillout zone and an inflatable corner with its very own ball pool. This is just scratching the surface of the awesome activities you will be able to find here. Make sure to pop down every day to check out the daily notices. Rumour has it that cake and biscuits might be able to buy a five minute visit who may be too little or who was born with the dinosaurs. So no matter what, make sure to check out the Ice House!
THE JAMBOREE BUG For many people on site today, this will be their first ever Jamboree, but there are also lots of people who have seen this site before. These seasoned Jamboree goers have well and truly caught the Jamboree Bug. But what is this mysterious creature and who has the worst case of it on camp? The Jamboree Bug is less of a teeny, tiny creepy crawly and more of that great big nostalgic feeling you get as you drive away from the Jamboree on the last day of an action packed week. From the moment you leave you will already to be excited to come back in 4 years time, and, if like many people, this is too long to wait,
there are plenty of other camps and Jamborees to keep you entertained in the mean time. We need your help to find the worst case of the Jamboree Bug on camp this week. The worst case we have found so far is from Jake on Southern Ocean Subcamp who has been to 10 Jamborees since 2010, with CamJam 2019 being the third time he has visited Huntingdon Racecourse in a row! Maybe you have been to more Jamborees than Jake, know someone who has been to a record number consecutively, or even think the Bug hit you so hard, you’ve spent more days at Jamborees in one year than anyone else at CamJam! If you have a great Jamboree Bug story come and let the media team know so we can help spread the Jamboree Bug across the site. Whether this is your first or your twenty-first Jamboree, we hope everyone leaves CamJam with a bad case of the Jamboree Bug, ready to sign up to your next great adventure.