Scout leader off to join jamboree (From Swindon Advertiser)

Scout leader off to join jamboree

3:00pm Thursday 1st April 2010 in

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SCOUT leader Aimee Mollart has been chosen to represent the UK out of 100,000 adult volunteers at the 22nd World Scout Jamboree in Sweden next year.

Aimee, 20, from Highworth, will be part of the International Service Team.

“It is very exciting,’’ she said. “I wanted to experience a big world event like this.’’ Aimee attended two selection days in Nottinghamshire when she had to compete in different tasks, such as a wide game where her team had to track down objects hidden around the site via clues.

“Another task was we were all given different jobs and told we were travelling in an air balloon that was going to crash unless we threw someone out so we had to decide who was to go,” she said.

“The days were all about getting to know each other and team building so they could see whether we would be suitable.’’ The jamboree runs from July 27 to August 7 next year, in Rinkaby, near the town of Kristianstad, in south Sweden.

Aimee has been in Scouting for nine years and is a Beaver Scout leader with the 1st Highworth Scouts and the Thorpe Acre troop, in Loughborough, where she is currently at university studying maths.

The jamboree will host 30,000 Scouts from all over the world.

The key theme for the 2011 is nature and the jamboree aims to use the natural environment as a learning tool.

Aimee said: “We will be living in a field in tents. They want to take Scouting back to basics.’’