{"id":718666,"date":"2026-07-30T07:24:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T07:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/718666\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T07:24:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T07:24:06","slug":"thousands-attend-scouts-and-guides-event-at-windsor-great-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/718666\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands attend Scouts and Guides event at Windsor Great Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A dad who has been attending an international event for Scouts and Guides since 1993 says his &#8220;circle is now complete&#8221; after bringing his young son for the first time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">WINGS Jamboree is a gathering of 3,000 young people aged 10-18, along with 1,000 volunteers, at Windsor Great Park from 25 July until 2 August.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This year&#8217;s event, jointly hosted by Berkshire Scouts and Royal Berkshire Guiding, is the first since 2014, following its cancellation in 2020 due to the Covid pandemic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">James&#8217;s son Matthew, 11, said the event was &#8220;very special, magical and very exciting&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">James has been to every WINGS event since he was a 14-year-old Scout and is now a leader.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said: &#8220;My circle is now complete because I&#8217;ve got my son here in the 2026 one and it&#8217;s special that I can share the amazing time I&#8217;ve had here with him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Yesterday was one of my magical moments of this one. We had to dress up as heroes and I went as Gandalf and my son went as Legolas and it was just amazing to experience all the family and the friendship of scouting together as we walked around.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A dad who has been attending an international event for Scouts and Guides since 1993 says his &#8220;circle&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":718667,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[59,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-718666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-gb","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=718666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/718667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=718666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=718666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=718666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}