ScOUTing IS Fun OUTside

Just to give all an idea of how a part of Scouting works in Europe, I attend a 4-day Whitsunday Weekend Intercamp every year. This event attracts approximately 2500 Youth and Leaders and 250-300 IST (Intercamp Service Team members); total around 3000 each and every year. This has been going on now for 42 years and is hoisted each year by another country. http://www.intercamp.info/en/geschichte/

The cost of participation is (and has been for the last 10 years) €15.00. Of course each group supplies its own transportation and food. Intercamp supplies the fun and program http://www.intercamp.info/en/interaktiv/fotos/

Presently the Countries involved are The Netherlands; Germany; United Kingdom; Canada; United States of America; Belgium; France; Czech Republic; Poland; and Switzerland. The Intercamp is hosted by, and takes place, in a different Host Country every year (when Canada, the UK and USA host the Intercamp, it always takes place somewhere in Germany).

OH, and by the way all of the Intercamp Committee are volunteers, as are the IST and leaders. There are NO staff from any Country involved at any level. Each Country approves a National Representative to the Committee to be responsible for ensuring thet that Countries BPP is complied with, and to be responsible for their own registered Youth.

I often wonder why it would be such a great problem to organize this sort of thing in Canada; it does NOT have to be Nation-wide; several Provinces could do it...(Oh well just a dream of mine).

I am the National Representative for Canada