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Dates

Mission Possible Sweden starts on Friday evening 3rd August 2012 and will last till Sunday afternoon 12th August 2012. On Friday evening 3rd August we will gather at the railway station of Groningen, Holland. You are welcome there from 20:30 o’clock onwards. Saturday morning 4th August we will leave early in the direction of Sweden. Sunday 12 August 2012 we will be back during the afternoon at the central railway station of Groningen. From there you will travel home by yourself.

You could also start and finish in Göteborg, Sweden at the airport Göteborg – Landvetter or at the central railway station of Göteborg. In doing so, you could extend your participation to a longer stay in Scandinavia. If you prefer that, you ought to be on Sunday morning 5th August early in Göteborg, where we will collect you. During our trip back home to Holland we will leave you in Göteborg so that Missin Possible Sweden will end for you there on Saturday afternoon 11 August 2012.

Participants

Mission Possible is ment for Roverscouts, leaders and executives of Scouting and Guiding from 18 to 28 years who would like to make a nice trip in Sweden that is larded with outdoor activities and saucetheme.

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. We will send an invitation to the Scout Network of the Scottish Scouts Association and the Scout Association in London.

You

• Will be between 18 and 28 years of age in August 2012.
• 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!
• You have knowledge of a few Scouting skills. We expect you to know the map- and compass methods.
• You can swim at the level of the Royal Life Saving – Bronze Medallion, so you can swim at least 400 meters in open water.

Campfee

To participate in Mission Possible Sweden 2012 costs € 469,50 per person if you start and finish in Groningen, Holland (Friday evening 3rd till Sunday 12th August 2012).

If you want to start and finish in Göteborg, Sweden at the airport Göteborg – Landvetter or at the central railway station of Göteborg (Sunday morning 5th till Saturday 11th August 2012) the campfee will be € 437,00 per person.

It is possible to pay in instalments of three terms.

This amount is inclusive the trip from the assembly point in Groningen to Sweden and back to the central railway station in Grongingen respectively Göteborg, the crossing with the ferry on the journey and back, the transport in Sweden, rent of clubhouses and bivouac, nice food, costs for special activities, stamps, printed matter and an outdoor insurance which covers all outdoor sportsactivities.

The campfee you pay as a participant of Mission Possible Sweden 2012 will be spent as followed:

• Fees for the ferry, rent, insurances and fuel for the busses and cars: 51 %
• Food: 23 %
• Program expences: 18 %
• Rent of clubhouses and bivouacs: 3%
• Preparations: 2%
• Organisationfees: 1%
• Unforseen costs: 2% +
• TOTAAL: 100 %

The budget for Mission Possible Sweden 2012 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

The camp leader of Mission Possible Sweden 2012 is René Verhoeven.

The other Dutch members of the staffteam are: Sebastiaan Leertouwer (from Breda), Tamara van der Linden (from Enschede / Naarden), Eveline Treurniet (from Zwolle), Jeroen Wilbers (from Eindhoven) and Jaap Willems (from Nijmegen).

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 leaderscourse 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 from René Verhoeven (camp leader), you can reach him by mailing him through: info@trapperskamp.com or the contactform.

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 wish you could pay in three terms).

After we received your camp fee completely, in June you will receive an information booklet with practical tips to prepare yourself to this 12th edition of Mission Possible in Sweden.

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