The Festival Of Scouting & Guiding
About The Festival
The UK Festival of Scouting and Guiding offers unique opportunities and experiences, bringing together 6,000 young people and their leaders to have fun, be joyful, make noise, celebrate, create friendships and experience great adventures. The sheer size of our festival allows participants to engage in activities and discoveries that they might not have encountered otherwise in their lives.
Our festival theme focuses on sustainability and the protection of the environment in which we live, encouraging participants to become champions of change, positively make a difference to the world they will grow up in and create a more sustainable future.
Our Festival
Festival KIST
As a member of our Kent International Service Team you can expect to enjoy our festival whether experiencing the delight on a participants face as they take part in an aspect of the festival you are delivering, making new KIST friends, or kicking back and enjoying life in our purpose built staff & leader hub.
Festival Fun Days
Five days of activities with everything you have come to expect; from throwing a tomahawk, electric carts, nerf wars, yoga, roller skating, driving experiences, funfair, field sports, jump bag, bushcraft, 4x4, archery...the list goes on
With 100's of activities daily and our evenings packed full of fun the only problem you will have is finding time to sleep.
Our Festival Firsts
The worlds largest inflatable maze | Scouting's first immersive festival stage & arena | Mega ball pit | Scout Partners discovery & exploration of our world | Frontier Sapiens' Film Festival
Global tree planting | INTO Films |Global Water Project
Sustainability:
Our Theme Our Goal
Sustainable practices support ecological, human, and economic health and vitality. Sustainability presumes that resources are finite and should be used conservatively and wisely with a view to long-term priorities and consequences of the ways in which resources are used.
Our festival captures this ethos in all we do, and we are delighted to be able to promote good practice through WRAP and our Recycle Now actions.
EVERY WASTE PRODUCT leaving our site from lost property to left over food will be recycled.
We are delighted to be working with Countrystyle Recycling to help our journey in becoming a carbon neutral festival.
Please take the time to discover how, with our partners, we hope to make our ambition reality.
Our Journey to Become Carbon Neutral
Our journey begins with you. We invite you to join us in our commitment to responsible practices, aiming to reduce our festival's carbon footprint whenever and wherever possible. Please explore our journey capture tool to learn more. It's estimated that our festival could generate 100 tonnes of carbon emissions.
While there's no single answer to our impact on the world, collectively, we can take action to minimise our footprint on the planet.
We're excited to announce our partnership with Treeapp, a leading tree-planting organization in the UK. We encourage all of you to participate in this initiative, which supports communities in Tanzania and aligns with several Scouting for SDG's goals. Treeapp's projects focus on woodland restoration, rehabilitating species at risk of extinction, enhancing biodiversity, and creating employment opportunities for local communities.
In the near future, thousands of trees will be planted in the Usambara Mountains in northern Tanzania. This initiative aims to restore the native tree population in Terrestrial and Inland Waters Protected Areas. The Usambara Mountains are particularly vital in Treeapp's efforts, as they play a crucial role in providing water supply and hydropower to local communities in Tanzania.
"The festival of Scouting and Guidings' commitment to reducing their environmental impact aligns perfectly with Treeapp's mission to restore and protect our planet's vital ecosystems. We're thrilled to partner with The Festival on this journey towards sustainability. Recognising the importance of addressing environmental concerns within the event industry, The Festival sets a commendable example of responsible stewardship. Together, we can make a meaningful difference for our planet."
- Cassie Daley, Marketing Manager at Treeapp
Our Partners & Supporters
Thank you so much to everyone involved in orangizing KIJ22. My son has never been this positive and excited when returning from a trip away. He has not stopped talking about all his adventures and can't wait for 2025.
via Facebook
Ingrid
What an absolutely fantastic event! Thank you for all your hard work. Seeing the pics & videos then listening to my kids recount the activities and fun they had has been a joy. Roll on 2025!!
via Facebook
Sarah-Jane
I would like to personally thanks all the poeple that have given up their time to make this amazing week for our young people!
via Facebook
Vanessa
Testimonials
The length of our festival from East to West.
1K
How many people will be at our festival.
10K
Our previous event, reached over 100,000 people worldwide via our social channels.
100K
The number of individual activity sessions available at our festival for participants.
1000K
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If you are curious about joining the KIJ family as a member of the team then check out our staff roles for 2025!
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