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So today would have been day one of BrumJam2021! We can't quite believe how quick this day has arrived and we really hope that all our BrumJammers around the world are safe and well and that in some way getting back to Scouting and Guiding.
We think back to our events in 2012 and 2016 and they bring back many memories....lovely people, fantastic activities and that special BrumJam magic. We remember on our first days coming over the fields to meet and greet you all, transporting kit to the sub-camps and then getting together for our opening ceremony. On behalf of the Organising Team we send our positive thoughts to you all and we really do hope to see you all soon.....We've picked a selection of photos to bring back some BrumJam memories. Please comment on how you all are, pop your own photos on, tell us what you remember from the camps or just say hello to fellow BrumJammers - it would be great to hear from you all....

The Organising Team met this week and have taken the difficult decision to cancel BrumJam 2021, due to the continuing restrictions and uncertainty surrounding the likelihood of being able to hold a large-scale event in England by August.
We appreciate the cancellation will be sad news to Groups and Staff members who were looking forward to joining us but we did agree to make a final decision in February and send out an update.
Group leaders and Staff members who have booked onto the event will receive an email from the Bookings team within the next week explaining how to claim a refund.
Please bear with us whilst these emails are sent out. To aid the communication process at this time it would be helpful if any queries come in from only Group leaders or Staff members to the [email protected] email address.
Thank you for your loyal support of the event and we hope to run the event again in 2024!

Sending all our BrumJammers from around the world our best wishes for a Happy Christmas. We hope you are all keeping safe in these challenging times and we really do hope to see you in 2021.

BrumJam2021 Staff – Comms& P.R Team, Event Admin Team and International Team. Amanda Cardall, Yvonne Woodhall and Paul Goon respectively are responsible for the event communications & info tent, all the event admin and taking care of our International visitors and VIP days We also welcome those under 18 completing QSA/QGA or DofE Gold to this team (very limited places). More details here https://www.brumjam.org/staff Book here https://www.brumjam.org/contact-book

BrumJam | Staff Key to the success of BrumJam is a dedicated and willing team of volunteers typically know as Staff. BrumJam 2021 is looking for around 200 adults to support the delivery of the camp. And ensure the young people and groups have a great time. After all this is one of the reasons we all join Scouting....

BrumJam2021 Staff – Support Team – Andy Medcalfe (Support team Chief) and his team are responsible for keeping the jamboree wheels turning and supporting site issue, including Safety, First Aid, Welfare, Car Parks, rubbish, toilets and anything else that crops up. We are recruiting Staff volunteers to support with Support Team General Site Services, First Aid, Welfare and Night Security. We also welcome those under 18 completing QSA/QGA or DofE Gold to this team (limited places). More details here https://www.brumjam.org/staff Book here https://www.brumjam.org/contact-book

BrumJam | Staff Key to the success of BrumJam is a dedicated and willing team of volunteers typically know as Staff. BrumJam 2021 is looking for around 200 adults to support the delivery of the camp. And ensure the young people and groups have a great time. After all this is one of the reasons we all join Scouting....

BrumJam2021 Staff – Sub Camps – Sean Kelly (Sub Camp Chief) and his team are responsible for all aspect of the Sub Camp life to ensure that the young people, leaders and staff have a great Jamboree experience. We are recruiting Staff volunteers to support with BrumJam Café, Staff Catering, Sub Camp Communications, Sub Camp MINI’s (for the little people), Sub Camp Programme and Sub Camp Support. We also welcome those under 18 completing QSA/QGA or DofE Gold to this team. More details here https://www.brumjam.org/staff Book here https://www.brumjam.org/contact-book

BrumJam | Staff Key to the success of BrumJam is a dedicated and willing team of volunteers typically know as Staff. BrumJam 2021 is looking for around 200 adults to support the delivery of the camp. And ensure the young people and groups have a great time. After all this is one of the reasons we all join Scouting....

BrumJam2021 Staff – Programme Team – Nick Thomas (Programme Chief) and his team are responsible for delivering an outstanding and exciting programme of activities for the entire 6 days. We are recruiting Staff volunteers to coordinate the Programme at Upton Warren Water Activities, Paddle Sport Instructors (BCU,RYA etc), Programme at Alton Towers, On-site Day Bush Craft & Pool Party and Evening Entertainment (Pink Coats). You must be over 18 to join this team. More details here https://www.brumjam.org/staff Book here https://www.brumjam.org/contact-book

BrumJam | Staff Key to the success of BrumJam is a dedicated and willing team of volunteers typically know as Staff. BrumJam 2021 is looking for around 200 adults to support the delivery of the camp. And ensure the young people and groups have a great time. After all this is one of the reasons we all join Scouting....

BrumJam2021 Staff – over the next few days we shall be advertising the vacancies for our exciting adult staff roles. Staff bookings are open for 2021. Staff fees are £75 for the week (reduced from £100 if you book now). This cost includes all camp fees, catering, staff activity evenings and an event polo shirt. All staff must be over 18* and hold a Scout or Guide adult appointment along with a valid DBS or PVG check. (* if you are under 18 and would like to volunteer then you must be a member of Scouting or Girlguiding and completing your QSA/QGA or DofE Gold Residential. More details about the roles are here https://www.brumjam.org/staff

BrumJam | Staff Key to the success of BrumJam is a dedicated and willing team of volunteers typically know as Staff. BrumJam 2021 is looking for around 200 adults to support the delivery of the camp. And ensure the young people and groups have a great time. After all this is one of the reasons we all join Scouting....

So we've reached the end of our fantastic look back at BrumJam2016. Some amazing activities and wonderful people to thank for taking part and supporting us....We are now looking forward to BrumJam2021...Next week we are focusing on the staff roles we have available. Also a reminder that we are taking expressions of interest for Groups that want to attend without financial commitment at this stage. This opportunity will run until the end of August. It is hoped that this approach will give both leaders and young people time to consider attending and for you to let us know approximate numbers. There will be no need to pay deposits until we have confirmed your booking.
The allocation of places will be on a “first come, first served” basis and the allocation of places will commence on the 1st September.
To register your interest please email our bookings team: [email protected]
Thank you BrumJammers - stay safe and enjoy the rest of the Summer...
( and here's a few more of our favourite memories to keep us going....)

And Day 6, that's all folks - well we had a whole bunch of other activities going on during the week - Sub Camp Day, Blackwell Adventure Day, Evening Entertainments, Closing Ceremony and not forgetting our International friends and all the adult Staff that make BrumJam possible. To be honest we ran out of photo's so if you have got some by all means upload your memories.

And on to Day 5 - We're a Knock Out. After a short walk to Pikes Pool we have a full day of 'It's A Knockout' style event. A bunch of giant inflatables, obstacles and props, as well as the arena and PA system all run by We're a Knock Outs enthusiastic team. The event consists of a series of rounds with each team also taking part and a final. It's a whole day and inflatables, team work and fun.

So just under an hour to go before Dave and Rev go live for our BrumJAM Radio@Home show. Lots to talk about, loads of great music and a few guest appearances.... Drop a note in the comments section if you'd like to request a song and it would be great to have you all listening to the show....

Sooooo Day 4 - after a busy day yesterday at Alton Towers something a little more calming today - we're on site for the On site programme day (in 2021 will be called Imagination Day) - a range of activities were on offer from Brush Craft, Craft, Pool Party, Big Bounce, Zorbing and Segway to name a few. With a slightly later start where you can come and go as you please throughout the day, this is a good day to also go to main camp Flag Break

Wow what a start to Day 3 - off site at Alton Towers - Great work between the Sub Camps, Programme and Support Teams to get 500 participants (the whole of one Sub Camp) off to Alton Towers for 8:15am departure. It is a very early start and a late finish but worth it for a chance to ride on Nemesis and The Smiler. There will be lots of smiling today ;-)

And Day 2 - Water Activities Day - 250 participants where off site at 9.00am for a full day of water activities including sailing, SUP, kayaking & windsurfing. There is a chance you are definitely going to get wet... now you know why the Programme Team reminded everybody to bring towels and a change of clothes. :-)

So day one of a week of great photos from BrumJam2016.....today a mixed selection of some great shots - can you spot yourselves? We'll post a selection each day, hoping to recreate the BrumJam atmosphere and hoping for a great camp in 2021...enjoy....

So tonight would have been our opening ceremony so for everybody that would have been with us at BrumJam2020 we hope you are all well, staying safe and we hope to see you all at BrumJam2021...we'll be picking some great moments from 2016 to relive the best bits so stay tuned...

Thank you to all of the Groups who have responded to our emails about either rebooking onto BrumJam2021 or taking a refund. We have had an excellent response and it is great to see so many Groups joining us for the 2021 event!
We are now in a position to take “expressions of interest”, without financial commitment at this stage, from Groups who wish to apply for the spare places (or additional places) on the event. This opportunity will open today and run until the end of August. It is hoped that this approach will give both leaders and young people time to consider attending and for you to let us know approximate numbers. There will be no need to pay deposits until we have confirmed your booking.
The allocation of places will be on a “first come, first served” basis and the allocation of places will commence on the 1st September.
To register your interest please email our bookings team: [email protected]
We will be advertising and opening up more staff roles shortly - and will post more information on this in the next few weeks. As ever, thank you for your ongoing support and please stay safe....

The BrumJam2021 organising team met last night, looking forward to next year when we can have a really fantastic camp. To those Groups and Staff members that have responded to our email to either rebook or cancel for 2021 thank you. We now need to chase down those that have still to reply so that we can readvertise participant places and also the remaining staff vacancies. Emails will be going out to those that haven't responded so if you do get one of these it is a huge help to us to have a reply so we can promote spaces in June. Hoping everybody is well, enjoying the sunshine and we'll be back in touch...

Hi BrumJammers, we hope you are safe and well during these unusual times. Just a reminder that all Staff and Groups that had booked onto the 2020 Camp will have had an email from us asking you to either rebook onto the 2021 event or to cancel your booking. It would really help us to get these replies in before the end of May so we can see how many places are available and also which staff roles are then needed to be filled. We appreciate that it is difficult to plan ahead but a response would be great so we can advertise these places at the beginning of June. Thank you for your support and please stay safe...

BrumJam updated their information in their About section.

Thank you BrumJammers for all your kind words - new logos have arrived, great to be able to post these for the 2021 event

Further to our recent BrumJam2020 update, the Organising Team met this week and have taken the difficult decision to postpone BrumJam2020. The good news is that we will be holding BrumJam2021 at the same venue, Blackwell Court, on the dates of 31st July - 7th August 2021! The programme and theme will remain unchanged and we'd like to take this opportunity to thank our contractors, suppliers and Blackwell Adventure for helping to move the event to 2021!
We appreciate at these difficult times in Scouting the postponement will be sad news to Groups and Staff who were joining us but felt that with the rapidly changing circumstances the clock was against us continuing with the 2020 event. Groups and Staff who have booked onto the event will receive an email from the Bookings team later today to help them to rebook onto BrumJam2021, or receive a refund. Please bear with us whilst these emails are sent out and where we can we will deal with queries from Group Leaders and Staff members.
The 2020 (now 2021) Organising Team are fully committed to putting on a great event and we hope that this gives us all something special to look forward to!
We hope to see as many BrumJammers at BrumJam2021 as possible. Thank you for your continued support.

BrumJam 2020: As we’re sure you’ll appreciate we’ve received a number of questions over recent days and weeks regarding whether BrumJam 2020 will be going ahead or if we’re planning to cancel it. As you can imagine this is a constantly changing situation and as yet we cannot say for certain what the outcome will be. With regards to BrumJam 2020, we held a Birmingham County team meeting this week and have deferred any decision until the end of May about cancelling the event in order to give us as much opportunity as possible to understand if the current restrictions will be lifted in time for the event to be held as planned.
We fully appreciate that each group has got different considerations and we understand that this is not ideal for planning purposes but does give us a larger window for us to make a final decision. As more information becomes available we will communicate further updates before the end of May.
All Groups booked on will receive a message regarding the situation this week. Thank you for your ongoing support - lets continue to be optimistic that we can run this fantastic event.

The camp is full but we still have some staff roles available. Entertainment, water activity, pool party support, Creche (minis) and staff catering. Don't leave it too long to book on for the role that you want...www.brumjam.org

BrumJam | The Birmingham Jamboree Thanks to your tremendous support! We are now closed to new booking registrations. Groups that have registered have been contacted to pay deposits as soon as possible. We are now operating a waiting list for spaces as these become available.

ADULT STAFF - Thanks for the great support, if Staff have registered, but not completed the application and payment could we please ask you to complete this ideally by 3rd February. We also have some remaining places on Programme and Entertainments. Please sign up.
Following an overwhelming response for DofE Residential applications, we currently will not be able to accept any further registrations (other than those currently being discussed).

Today is the last day to register as a staff member and get the early bird discount which reduces the staff fee to £75. Go to the staff page of the website to see which roles we have available and register today... after today the fee will increase to £100......

Last few days to get your staff booking in for the early bird discount....check out the staff page of our website to see which roles are available...register and pay your deposit to save £25....

Happy Christmas to all our BrumJammers - we hope you all have a fantastic Christmas and New Year. Thank you for all your support as we are now fully booked for camp participants. Don't forget if you want to book as staff you can get an early bird discount to £75 staff fee if you book on and pay your deposit before the end of the year. Wishing everybody a Happy Christmas.... see you all in 2020.

BrumJam Staff sign up discount – last few days! Staff that apply and pay deposit by 31st December 2019 save £25 - that means a total of £75. This is the cost for the week and includes all camp fees, catering, staff activity evenings and an event polo shirt. We are looking for adult Staff to fill the remaining vacancies on Support Team (General Site), Sub Camp (Café, Creche, Staff Catering) and Programme (Bushcraft, Pool Party, Alton Towers, It’s Knockout, Water Activities, Evening Entertainments). Sign up here https://www.brumjam.org/contact-book

BrumJam | Contact Us BrumJam 2020 will be at Blackwell Adventure Our Contact Details Email: [email protected] Have You Checked Our FAQ Section?If you want to ask us a question about BrumJam 2020, be sure to check out FAQ section to see if you can find the answer there!FAQ Page Register your Group Once registered you will...

Hi BrumJammers, great news we are now FULL for participants. Everybody has been contacted that has expressed interest for places and chased for payments. We now have a waiting list which the bookings team will be managing but to be honest keeping with our 1500 numbers there will not be masses of places coming available. Thank you for all your support.... we do have some staff vacancies available so be quick to get in before the end of the year for the early booking discount...