With Jquery issues we normally recommend jquery easy extension but this is in the source code by the look of it

Equally, we'd normally also noconflict mode

Yes, it is in the source code for the page.

--what is "noconflict" mode? How do I invoke it?

With an extension there is normally an option to enable this - this to try and avoid conflicts with other versions of jquery

jqueryfordesignersbook.com/episode-12-no-conflict-mode/

I'm not a coder as such so my knowledge is a bit limited in this regard

I removed all the code except the jquery library refs:

<script src="ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.2.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.12.1/jquery-ui.min.js"></script>

and it still fails.

While the noconflict looks like a good idea, I'm not sure that's the source of the problem. I suspect that my code joomlabamboo are referencing different libraries and that is the source of the conflict.

Could you tell me the jQuery and jQuery-ui library versions that joomlabamboo uses?

The framework loads the the Jquery version loaded by that particular Joomla version so I think with the latest Joomla 3.7.4 that is jQuery v1.12.4

You can set the template to load a different jquery version but I don't know if you will run into the same problem