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The event will start on the 27th of [[July]], meaning that the 40,000 camping participants will be celebrating the Scouting Sunrise in one place. | The event will start on the 27th of [[July]], meaning that the 40,000 camping participants will be celebrating the Scouting Sunrise in one place. | ||
While this is not the largest encampment of Scouts ever held (over 50,000 young Scouts camped in | While this is not the largest encampment of Scouts ever held (over 50,000 young Scouts camped in Birkenhead at the [[3rd World Scout Jamboree|''Coming of Age'' Jamboree]] in [[1929]]), it is expected that the large numbers of day visitors and the many concurrent camps around the world will make this the largest Scouting event since the movement started 100 years earlier. | ||
== Join-in-Centenary == | == Join-in-Centenary == |