WS camps have been held in West Sussex for more than 40 years and feature as a high point in the County Scout and Guide programme. It is an international experience for young people from around the world, joining in a week of activities together including: water activities, abseiling, climbing, archery, and other adventurous & challenging activities. Plus cultural activities, sub-camp competitions, musical entertainments, social events, live bands, discos, crafts and even more.

All Sections Day is held on the Wednesday of WS camps, where all sections of Scouting and Guiding in West Sussex are invited to visit camp to come and see what it’s all about and to enthuse them to want to attend the next one. 

The invitation is extended to Rainbows, Squirrels, Beavers, Brownies, Cubs, Guides, Scouts, Rangers and Explorers along with their Leaders. 

This is an event for members of Guiding and Scouting in West Sussex.  Parents may join you to make up the adult numbers required to comply with the adult:child ratio, but they need to have a valid Scouting or Guiding DBS.  If extra children accompany Leaders or parents they must be included in your adult:child ratio. 

WSIJ2025 is held at The South of England Showground, Ardingly, West Sussex, RH17 6TL.  On arrival please go to the green gate.  The gate will open at 10.30am.  If you are not all arriving together by coach or minibus, please gather your whole group together before coming to the gate.  Exact registration details will be confirmed nearer the time. The leader will be given the pack of badges for their group, their charities fair tokens and a map of the site.  

Please aim to arrive for 10.30am. The gates will not open before this.  If you get held up on the day and will be arriving after 11.30am please call us.  A contact phone number will be published nearer the time.

Groups should leave from the green gate.  For safety and security of all on site, we need to check out each group as they go off site, and the whole group should leave together.  The gate will be closed during the day and re-opened from 3.30pm until 5pm.  If you plan to leave earlier than 3.30pm or need access back to your car or coach, you will to exit via the blue gate and walk round to the green gate.

If you are being hosted by a group at camp, you may be able to stay later, by arrangement, but must be off site by 7pm at the latest.  Please let us know via the All Sections Day email, [email protected] if you intend to stay later.

• An event badge
• Access to certain activities from 11am-1pm
• Access to the Camp Charities Fair during the afternoon with 25 tokens to spend (equivalent to £5 of 20p’s)
• Access to look around the site and see what a WSIJ camp looks like

• An event badge
• Access to the Camp Charities Fair during the afternoon with the option to purchase tokens on the day
• Access to look around the site and see what a WSIJ camp looks like
• A site map for Leaders

Note: 

• Those aged 3 and under are free.  They will not get a badge and will not be able to take part in any of the morning activities.

Banking cash is getting harder to do, so the decision has been made to pay for tokens in advance which can then be spent in the same way the 20p’s were previously.  The tokens can also be reused for future WSIJ events.  A set amount of £5 was decided on to make it easier for leaders to manage, rather than asking parents how many tokens each child wants.

There will be a limited number of tokens to purchase on the day. These will be available from the information tent. Minimum spend of £1 for 5 tokens.

Tokens are not refundable.  We encourage you to “spend” them all at the charities fair.

This is a members’ uniform event, so all Guiding and Scouting members should come in appropriate uniform.  Trainers are the best footwear – the event is being held on a Showground and will involve a lot of walking.  If there has been a lot of rain, the ground could be quite muddy, so please bear this in mind.  Don’t forget sun hats, sun cream and wet weather gear, as appropriate.

There will be activities for members to take part in from 11am-1pm and our usual charity fair from 2pm with lots of stalls all costing just 1 token per go. All profits from this will go to the camp charities, The Springboard Project, based in Horsham, supporting children with SEND and the Mel Ford Leadership Fund, supporting young leaders in Guiding and Scouting.  There will also be opportunities to visit the shops within Mount Olympus.  Non-members will not be able to take part in the morning activities.

There will be a wide range of activities which should include the following, although this is subject to change and weather conditions on the day.

Abseiling, ariel runway, skate boarding (all age 7+)

Traverse wall, caving trailer, mini golf, crafts, garden games, Army activities, inflatable obstacle course, build a wall, slime challenge, science experiments.

The activities will not be ticketed, they will run on a first come first served basis, if there is a long queue for one activity, we suggest you try another as there will be enough activities for everyone to be busy during the 2 hour activity slot.

Bookings open on the 6^th May and close on 23^rd May 2025.  No applications received after the closing date will be accepted.  Space is limited, so places will be allocated on a first come first served basis.

The unit leader needs to register the group as a whole by completing the booking form and participants list and then emailing them to [email protected]

You will receive an email confirming your places, along with details of how to make payment.

All Sections Day is for pre-booked groups only.  For safety and security of all on site we can only allow entry to the number in each group that have booked in advance. 

Unfortunately we are unable to give refunds. However, the badges can be awarded at the Leaders discretion, for example to a participant unable to attend due to illness.

Yes – you will be given a username and password for the online booking system and you can change participant names, but not add more to your booking.

Each group must be responsible for their own first aid on the day.  There is a medical unit on site, but they should only be called on for major incidents.  Details will be provided to Group Leaders.

Yes, we have pre filled both a Guiding and Scouting one day event form for you to use.  You will need to add your travel arrangements to this, along with start and end times.  Please do not remove any of the activity information as this is required to enable to young members to take part in the morning activities.

These were circulated with the invitation letter, copies can be requested by emailing [email protected]

Tickets will be issued in the form of wristbands.  Every member on site for All Sections Day must wear a wristband and will not be admitted on site without it. More details about these will be shared nearer the time.

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