WORLD SCOUT JAMBOREE

The exclusivity of the scarf design was compromised by the emergence of online copies.
This resulted in a change to the UKC scarf design to include a UKC crane on the back as
opposed to the Union flag.
With regards to the survey, there was clear divide in the views and feedback regarding kit across the
UK Contingent. There were a number of positive comments in relation to the kit, and various aspects
of the kit were highly praised by the Contingent in terms of the usefulness / practicalities of the kit
that was provided.
“Kit was generally good and fit for purpose”
“Wicking T was ace, and I don't really like synthetics!”
“The holdalls with wheels were a stroke of genius, made life much easier thank you!”
“The water bottles were life savers”
In terms of the quality of the kit, some respondents were disappointed in the quality of the kit that
was provided. This was mainly concentrated on the holdalls, day sacks, and the water bottles, this is
reflected in the quotes below:
“The bags were poor quality, it's such a shame to receive items that are essentially only good
for one event. Such a waste of resources (and people's money)”.
“Awful quality…our main bags split before we left the house”
Aside from the quality of the kit, the UKC, were positive about the overall amount (quantity) of the
kit that they were provided as part of their issued kit. There were some personal differences in the
opinions about the multiple items of the same kit that were provided:
“Two water bottles per person wasn't really necessary”
Some respondents felt that poor quality kit is a reoccurrence at Jamborees and previous
feedback had not been taken into account:
“…feel like not all of the suggestions were taken into account from previous jamborees, kit
provided was NOT reliable for the intense use as required when taking part in a Jamboree”
“the cargo bag was of poor quality ‐ again!”
“the cargo bags we have had for the last few jamborees are almost single use and throw
away due to poor build quality ‐ this is wasteful and basically a poor investment”
We asked Scout Shops to respond to the Contingent comments regarding the quality of the bags.
‘The few initial issues with these bags were not consistent and the total number of bags with
faults was about 2% which is well within current bench marking for bags of this quality, it also
fitted with the number of contingency bags available for replacement purposes. As this piece of
kit is ‘critical’ the smoothness of the journey it would be worth considering the possibility of
increasing the quality/spend.’
Having then queried Scout Shops about the 2% figure, they made a further comment as follows:
We are fully aware of the quality issues with the cargo bags and both we and the participants
are disappointed that the product was not up to our usual high standard. Although the actual
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