Important data

Dates

Mission Possible Sweden starts on Friday afternoon, August 9, 2024 at 11:30 am at the station in Groningen and lasts until Sunday afternoon, August 18, 2024. After your arrival, we will immediately start our journey to Sweden in 9-person vans. Along the way we will spend the night at/in a Scouting accommodation. On Sunday, August 18, 2024 we will be back at the central station in Groningen mid-afternoon. From there you travel home on your own. Foreign Scouts will arrive at the bus station in Årjäng in Sweden on Saturday afternoon, August 10, 2024, and from there they will travel home on their own on Saturday morning, August 16, 2024.

Participants

Mission Possible is meant for Roverscouts, leaders and executives of Scouting and Guiding from 18 years and older who would like to make a nice trip in Sweden that is larded with outdoor activities and themesauce.

You will enjoy culinary art with a Swedish touch on your bivouacs. You will make some distances, so you need a decent physical condition and you will have waterproof shoes that are worn in. You can apply as a participant individually, with the two of you or in a group with several enthousiastic people.

We can have to a maximum of 18 participants. All participants should be able to communicate in English.

You

• Will be 18 years or older in August 2024.
• Will have enough experience with hiking with a rucksack with personal belongings for a 5-days hike in Sweden in order to accomplish the journey without any footproblems. It helps to pack your own personal lightweight luggage in a rucksack!
• Do have knowledge of a few Scouting skills. We expect you to know the map- and compass methods.
• Can swim at the level of the Royal Life Saving – Bronze Medallion, so you can swim at least 400 meters in open water.
• Will apply for visa in time, if you need these for participating at Mission Possible Sweden.
• Will arrange your own cancellation insurance, travel and outdoor insurance which covers all outdoor sports activities & medical care (if needed) and so on.

Campfee

Participating in Mission Possible Sweden 2024 costs €711.00 per participant if you start and end at Groningen CS station,
OR
Participating in Mission Possible Sweden 2024 costs €674.00 if you arrive at the bus station in Årjäng in Sweden on Saturday afternoon, August 10, 2024, and travel home on your own from there on Saturday morning, August 16, 2024. We would like to get in contact with foreign participants before the camp to make further arrangements about their outward and return journey!

If you register on time, it is possible to pay the participant price in three installments.

This amount includes the journey from the meeting point in Groningen to Sweden and back to the central station in Groningen, the crossings by boat on the outward and return journey, transport in Sweden, rental of clubhouses and bivouacs, good food, costs for special activities, postage and printing.

The participation fee is based on the food and fuel prices of December 2023 in both Sweden and the Netherlands. If it turns out that these costs will be higher by mid-2024, you may be asked to pay a surcharge on the participant fee. The participants will be informed about this in the second half of June 2024.

The campfee you pay as a participant of Mission Possible Sweden will be spent as follows:

• Fees for the ferry, rent, insurances and fuel for the busses and cars: 47%
• Food: 23%
• Rent of clubhouses and bivouacs: 12%
• Programme expences: 11%
• Preparations: 1%
• Organisation fees: 1%
• Unforeseen costs: 5% +
• TOTAL: 100 %

The budget for Mission Possible Sweden covers its own costs. Therefore we also ask a financial contribution of the staff members; they pay their own travelfees, food, participation in special activities (like lorrybiking and canoeing) and the overnight expenses.

Staffteam

All staffmembers have been participants in the past in primitive camps and expeditions, such as during Dutch national Scouting camps at Easter and/or the during camps of our foundation. After that they have participated at the Trappers Camp Extreme. This is a leaders course from our foundation which is held to raise staffmembers as a ‘qualified leader of primitive expeditions’. Most of the staffmembers have been working several years in staffteams of camps of our foundation: you will go on a camp with experienced and pleasant stafmembers!

We are very busy to make a cool program!

More information

You can get more information via: info@trapperskamp.com or the contact form.

Application

Did you become enthousiastic? Apply quickly because only 18 participants can sign up.

After your application

Upon we've received your application, you get a letter with more detailed information. We also will inform you how you should pay your participantsfee (if you register on time and wish you could pay in three terms).

After we received your camp fee completely, you will receive via e-mail an information booklet with practical tips to prepare yourself for this edition of Mission Possible in Sweden.

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