Tantivy Blue Coach have joined Connex in offering free transport to the event to reduce congestion, a fireworks company has offered to provide a spectacular finale to it, and the new operators of Le Braye café will hand the venue over to the Women’s Institute for the day to provide teas and coffees in return for donations to the appeal.
The Jersey Scout Association is also asking its leaders to act as marshalls for the event.
Island Commissioner Richard Woolsey said: ‘There are 28 million scouts worldwide and there is a large number in south-east Asia.
Many scouts in affected regions have been helping with the relief effort so it is an event with particular relevance to us.’ The JEP hopes to get 5,000 people onto the beach to spell out the phrase ‘Side By Side’, symbolising how the community has come together for the tsunami appeal and how the Island intends to stand together in the long term with the regions hit by the disaster.
A photograph will be taken from a helicopter and sent to newspapers and press agencies across south-east Asia.
Mr Woolsey also plans to have it posted on the scouts’ website so that members across the world will see what is happening in Jersey.
Further details, including a map of the car parks and the special bus timetable, will be published next week.
People are being asked to assemble at Le Braye from 1pm – in brightly coloured hats but without dogs – and it is envisaged that it will take around an hour to get everyone in place for the photograph.
