Practical
Practical Poland notes for the 2027 World Scout Jamboree
The practical half of the World Scout Jamboree 2027 Poland guide: published dates, the birth-date age line, the Bulletin 1 fee table, and a packing list drawn from what that fee does not include. If your contingent handbook is newer, follow the handbook.
World Scout Jamboree 2027 Poland guide
This page is not official
Bravely Field Notes is not the Organising Committee, not ZHP, and not WOSM. Nothing here enrols you, quotes a binding fee, or replaces a circular from your National Scout Organization.
Use the links on the Resources page, especially jamboree2027.org and Bulletin 1, before you act on a date or a price.
Schedule
The camp itself runs from 30 July to 8 August 2027. The host also publishes the days around it for the service team and for departures.
The table below follows this site’s earlier reading: the service team leaves on 10 August. A host knowledge-base page describes that departure on 11 August, with meals through breakfast that day. Ask your contingent which text it is using. This notebook has not picked a winner. Host knowledge-base page on the Jamboree
- 27–28 July 2027
- International Service Team arrives.
- 29 July 2027
- Contingents arrive.
- 30 July 2027
- Opening game and ceremony. The camp is open.
- 1 August 2027
- 120 years of Scouting.
- 8 August 2027
- Closing ceremony.
- 9 August 2027
- Youth contingents depart.
- 10 August 2027
- International Service Team departs.
Ages
Bulletin 1 describes youth participants as people born after 30 July 2009 and on or before 30 July 2013.
The same bulletin describes International Service Team members, Contingent Management Team members, and Adult Patrol Leaders as people born on or before 30 July 2009.
A patrol is nine youth plus one Adult Patrol Leader. Four patrols form a unit. The Head of Contingent cannot also be an Adult Patrol Leader or a member of the International Service Team.
A public dates page on the host site words the age band a little more loosely. Where the two differ, ask your National Scout Organization which text it is using.
Registration
Participants join through their National Scout Organization. This website has no registration form and cannot hold a place.
Heads of Contingent work with the host on allocations. Individual Scouts do not apply to the Gdańsk office on their own.
Getting ready, as of November 2026
This note is for a patrol, a leader, or a family planning the 2027 World Scout Jamboree in Poland. It is not a contingent handbook. If your Head of Contingent has a newer date, follow that date. worldscoutjamboree2027 does not take a payment and does not hold a place.
Dates Bulletin 1 still prints
Bulletin 1 printed a payment and registration calendar. The rows below are that calendar, marked against 2 November 2026. Bulletin 2 came out in April 2025. Bulletin 3 was published on 5 December 2025, and the host’s note on it says deadlines were updated. This page has not seen a public list that replaces the dates below, so it does not invent new ones.
| Date | On 2 November 2026 | What Bulletin 1 said |
|---|---|---|
| Already past | Contingent deposit of 10 percent, unless the early-bird deposit was already paid. Bulletin 1 said missing it put the allocation at risk. | |
| Already past | One adjustment of the approved allocation, up to 10 percent. | |
| Already past | Second payment, 20 percent. | |
| Already past | Start of personal-data upload for the International Service Team, the Contingent Management Team, and Adult Patrol Leaders, and the start of IST job choice. The timeline in the same bulletin also names special-needs registration for each patrol. | |
| Already past | Third payment, 30 percent. | |
| Still ahead on that calendar | End of IST registration and job choice, on the Bulletin 1 timeline. | |
| Still ahead on that calendar | Upload of participant personal data. | |
| Still ahead on that calendar | Fourth payment, 40 percent. Bulletin 1 said this last instalment is reduced for contingents that secured the early fee. |
Fees in Bulletin 1
Bulletin 1 published participation fees in Polish złoty, by World Scout fee category A to D. The participant columns include the Adult Patrol Leader. The other pair is the International Service Team and the Contingent Management Team.
| Category | Early, participant | Regular, participant | Early, IST and CMT | Regular, IST and CMT |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | 1500 PLN | 1600 PLN | 1350 PLN | 1440 PLN |
| B | 3000 PLN | 3200 PLN | 2700 PLN | 2880 PLN |
| C | 4500 PLN | 4800 PLN | 4050 PLN | 4320 PLN |
| D | 6000 PLN | 6400 PLN | 5400 PLN | 5760 PLN |
Bulletin 1 asked for an early-registration allocation form by 1 July 2025 and a 30 percent deposit by 1 September 2025. That early-bird deadline has passed as of October 2026. Read the early columns as history unless your National Scout Organization says the rate still applies.
These numbers are a reading of Bulletin 1, not an invoice. Bulletin 3 was published on 5 December 2025 and the host said deadlines in it were updated; this table does not invent a new price. This site never collects a fee.
Bulletin 1 describes that fee as covering the campsite, programme transport, meals, drinking water, stated transfers, shared cooking gear, limited medical care, and a kit. It does not cover personal tents, sleeping bags, medicines, or hospital costs. Read the bulletin, and the Poland guide on this site, before you budget. Your National Scout Organization can add travel and insurance on top.
A packing list from the gaps
Bulletin 1 says the participation fee does not include personal tents, cots, or sleeping bags, and that medicines and hospital costs sit outside the fee. The lines below are this notebook’s reading of those gaps. They are not a packing list issued in Gdańsk.
- A tent, a sleeping bag, and a sleeping mat you can carry. The host describes shared cooking equipment for the unit, not a personal tent.
- Layers for a Baltic summer: a daily average around 17°C, wind, and rain on about seven days a month, in the same bulletin’s sketch.
- Medicines you already use, in their original packs. Do not assume the camp clinic replaces a prescription.
- The papers your contingent names. This site does not know which passport, visa, or insurance rules apply to you.
- A little Polish złoty for anything the fee does not buy. Your association’s invoice is usually in your own currency and can add flights and insurance.
If your leader hands you a different list, pack that list.
Questions to take to your organization
This practical page cannot answer these for your contingent. Ask before anyone pays.
- Are you sending a contingent to the 2027 World Scout Jamboree, and who is the Head of Contingent?
- Which birth-date text are you using: Bulletin 1, a later host page, or your own circular?
- What does the invoice add on top of the złoty participation fee, and has a later bulletin replaced Bulletin 1?
- Who books flights, insurance, and any visa, and what happens to money if a Scout withdraws?
- Where do safeguarding concerns go? Not to this website.
The island
Camp life is on Sobieszewo Island. The host puts the site about twenty minutes from central Gdańsk, on the Baltic.
Check-in, day visitors, and media are described as downtown, separate from the sleeping site.
Bulletin 1 sketches July and August as a daily average around 17°C, highs around 21°C, humidity around 55 percent, and rain on about seven days a month. The Baltic shore is windy. Pack layers, not only a summer shirt.
Travel and visas
Fly into Gdańsk Lech Wałęsa Airport (GDN), or come by rail. High-speed trains connect the region with Warsaw. Your contingent will publish its own arrival plan.
Poland is in the Schengen area. Visas, invitations, and passport rules are a matter for your National Scout Organization and the Polish authorities. This site does not give visa advice.
World Scout Jamboree 2027 Poland guide: from Warsaw and the airport
Safe from Harm
The Jamboree follows the World Organization of the Scout Movement Safe from Harm approach, plus the host’s own rules and your contingent’s code. This website is not a place to report a concern. Use your leaders and the official channels.
Organiser’s office
The Organising Committee is a foundation of ZHP. Its office address, email, and the phone number printed by the host are below. The registered seat is Za murami 2-10, Gdańsk.
L. Mierosławskiego 15, 80-430 Gdańsk, Polandinfo@wsj2027.pl
+48 58 58 59 007
Write to info@wsj2027.pl for the camp. Write to this notebook only through the contact page.
Fee table and age limits read from Bulletin 1 in October 2026. Bulletin 3’s public note (5 December 2025) says later deadlines exist. Confirm before you budget or recruit.