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Welcome to Merseyside Scout County’s webpage for World Scout Jamboree's! 
Merseyside has a long tradition of sending young people and adults across the world to attend World Jamborees and is looking forward to the next Jamboree in Japan in 2015.

The 23rd World Scout Jamboree will be hosted in Kiara-Hama, outside Yamaguchi, in Japan and will take place between 28^th July and 8^th August 2015.

The theme for the Jamboree is Wa - A Spirit of Unit – find out more at the official 23rd WSJ site

Who Can Participate?

To be a participant at the 23rd World Scout Jamboree in Japan 2015, you need to have turned 14 but not yet had your 18th birthday at the start of the camp. That means you must have been born between 25 July 1997 and 27 July 2001.

Merseyside Involvement

The Merseyside Jamboree Archive

Merseyside has a long tradition of sending scouts to World Jamborees. To celebrate this, we have started to build an archive of each unit that has contained scouts from Merseyside. Click a link below to read about some of our past units. If you attended a jamboree as part of a Merseyside/North west Unit and would like to add your memories/photos to these pages please get in touch by e-mailing webmaster@merseysidescouts.com

• 22nd World Scout Jamboree,Sweden, 2011
• 21st World Scout Jamboree,UK, 2007
• 20th World Scout Jamboree,Thailand, 2003
• 19th World Scout Jamboree, Piquarquin, Chile, 1998-99
• 18th World Scout Jamboree,Netherlands, 1995
• 17th World Scout Jamboree,Korea, 1991
• 16th World Scout Jamboree,Australia, 1987/88
• 15th World Scout Jamboree,Canada, 1983
• 14th World Scout Jamboree,Norway, 1975

Get Involved

Thank you for showing an interest in the 23rd World Scout Jamboree, Kiara-hama, Japan, 2015.

More information will be released shortly, in the meantime, please take a look through some of the photographs from the 2011 World Jamboree in Sweden