FAQ's

Applications to join the Scouts Aotearoa contingent to the 26th World Scout Jamboree will be open from July - October 2025. After we receive your application, we’ll check your membership with Scouts Aotearoa and have a chat with a Kaiārahi who works with you (for youth, ideally your section Kaiārahi; for adults, ideally your group Kaiārahi). We’ll then confirm whether your application has been successful.

Note that for Patrol Kaiārahi there will also be an additional interview stage.

Check out the eligibility details here for more info. If you’re still unsure, send your questions to us in an email to worldjamboree@scouts.nz.

We really want the fee to be great value for money and are working hard to achieve that. We’ve set the fee at a more conservative level due to exchange variances and unknown flight costs this far out.  We hope to be able to bring the cost down a bit but we won’t know if we can achieve that until we’re able to start making payments and lock the actual costs in.

Participants and their whānau rated the fee for the last World Scout Jamboree highly for value for money. We are following a very similar approach with the fee, primarily with adjustment for additional cost (e.g. higher travel cost due to more flights required to get to Poland).

First of all, make sure you’re eligible and then submit an application! Here are some things you can work on once we’ve confirmed you’ll be a member of our contingent:

• Check out the fee payment schedule here and make a fundraising plan if you need one

• Make sure you’re comfortable walking long distances - you’ll be walking kilometres each day around the World Scout Jamboree site

• Do you do your own clothes washing? You’ll need to while we’re away so make a head start and figure out how to get your clothes nice and clean!

• Practice your cooking skills - you’ll be cooking your food on site so you’ll appreciate your cooking skills later!

• Learn a bit about Poland, their culture, history, and language

• Great question! The itinerary will be confirmed later once we’re close enough to be able to start making bookings. We expect to spend a bit of time travelling in Poland, as well as hopefully a couple of nearby countries before and after the World Scout Jamboree.

• Have you got any ideas about where you want to go and what you want to see? Send them in an email to our Logistics Manager at morgan.french-stagg@worldjamboree.scouts.nz

• Our Patrol Kaiārahi are great people who have experience attending big events, navigating challenges, and supporting, coaching, and mentoring young people. They will work together to support our youth participants with additional support from our Contingent Management Team. We’re pleased to have continuity from previous World Scout Jamborees so we’ll use that knowledge and work together to make sure we’re prepared for a wide range of possibilities. We also have wider support from Scouts Aotearoa we can draw on if we need it.

• For IST participants, we’re hoping to appoint an IST coordinator at a later date to help with providing additional support and acting as a conduit with our Contingent Management Team.

• The World Scout Jamboree also provides support to participants through Listening Ear and other services through their onsite medical services.

• If you have any specific questions, feel free to send an email to worldjamboree@scouts.nz and we’ll get back to you.

The trip will be about 4 weeks long. This includes:

• Orientation: we’ll spend a couple of days getting to know each other and preparing for the trip before we depart

• Pre-Tour: making the most of our travel across the world, we’ll explore Poland and some nearby countries on the way

• World Scout Jamboree: camping with 50,000 people for 10 days in an extraordinary event

• Post-Tour: Celebrating the adventure and our last couple of days and travelling home

The exact dates will be confirmed later. This is because we can’t book any flights till we’re less than 12 months out and we’ve confirmed who’s coming on the trip of a lifetime with us!

We don’t yet know what roles they are recruiting IST to help with - this information will be available in 2026. From our experience with previous World Scout Jamborees, there will be a wide variety of roles available to suit your skills and experience such as running activities, providing admin support, and supporting catering services.

It will likely be sometime in 2027 that you will find out your allocated role

You need to have a reasonably good level of fitness. This is an active trip and there will be times where we do lots of walking, for example:

• While on Pre-Tour, there could be days where we walk 10+ kilometres exploring a city

• With 50,000 people camping, the World Scout Jamboree site will be big! You might be walking 15+ minutes to get food (IST), or maybe 30+ minutes to get to an activity. We don’t know where everything will be yet but we need to be prepared for the distances.

You should be comfortable walking these distances to make sure you’ll have the best time possible

Check out the role descriptions here for more info on these roles!