UK Scout Association says £1m cost of quitting jamboree will affect its work ‘for years’

UK Scouts chief says organisation of event in South Korea had been poor, even before threat of Typhoon Khanun

The 1m cost of relocating the 4,500-strong UK contingent at the World Scout Jamboree in South Korea will affect the work of the Scout Association for as much as five years, the organisation's boss has said.

Matt Hyde, the UK Scouts chief executive, said the association had been forced to dip into its reserves after the event's organisers decided to clear the campsite five days early because of an incoming typhoon that is expected to make landfall over the Korean peninsula in the coming days.