Hi fellow scouts!

This summer i am traveling with my explo-group (15 to 18 years). We are looking for a place to ‘camp’ jn or near Berlin for 2 nights between 13 to 15 of august. We are with 9 children and 6 adults.

I already contacted the Bäkewiese, but they are fully booked. 🤔

Anybody knows/has a place available? Thanks in advance 👍!

Kinds regards,
Your fellow neightbour, the dutchies! 🇳🇱

hi hello i'm going to wsj next year and super excited for it especially the neckers from different countries it will be my third jamboree and i have got allot of neckers through trading but i got really interested in national neckers . like for example the national american ,mexican ,irish national ,pakistani,bolivian,Ukrainian ,mongolian,japanese,Australian,Singaporean and the taiwanese contingent necker i don't know if they have one and ik these are alot of neckers and all of them national and i genuinely don't want to get mixed up so if anyone know how the national version of any of these countries look like please say

I’m just trying to get an idea of how to hit a drop off time and fear the traffic through Windsor town could be really bad….

hello, I'm curious how many out there know about the Scout Ashes Tradition started by Lord Baden-Powell? Do you practice it?

In 1907, Baden-Powell famously took a bunch of boys camping one Brownsea Island in England. He saves a portion of the ashes and distributes them. Scouts then add ashes to their formal campfires from the original campfire and on and on. The six degrees of separation of all scouts worldwide in an act that is central to scouting tradition, the campfire.

I know of a bunch of folks who have ashes that go back to World Jamborees that link all kinds of scouts all over. I've always been fascinated with the concept. It feels like a social network of scouts with a tangible anchor.

Anyway, I started building an app to modernise the tradition and hopefully reinforce it. I'm curious who and how many of us are using this tradition as a teaching tool as well as a way to bring scouts together across groups etc? Is this something that would help to keep the scouting movement together in the modern era? What are people's thoughts?

Planning a hammock weekend and want to build a cool gadget- Any ideas ?

Floodwood Mountain Scout Reservation has slots for crews displaced from the Northern Tier disruption. In Saranac Lake, NY. Canoe Treks and backpacking treks up to five days.

For information got to www.floodwood.org

https://www.scoutshop.org/catalog/product/view/id/12929/

Has anyone ever stepped up to the plate and ordered the Made-to-Measure custom shirt? I’m really interested in fabric weight and quality since it’s listed as 100% cotton and not the usual blend they sell on the shelf. Are we talking like thin t-shirt style or true field shirt?

Is anyone outside of the United States going to National Jamboree at The Summit in West Virginia?

never realised the time would go by so fast since i signed up last year 😭

This summer camp I'm gonna be working for a few days along with the beaver leaders, It's my first ever service and I'm really really nervous! I don't have their cronogram yet, but I've prepared a bunch of activities for the kids (ages from 6 to 8). I feel a little out of my depth right now because I didn't have much time to prepare everything and I don't want to be a burden to the leaders or delay anything...

Surely everything will go smoothly while we're at camp, but the days before camp got me crazy!

Please check this out and see if you can help out.

My son just graduated from Tiger scout to Wolf. I've noticed that his uniform, which we bought new a year ago, says "Boy Scouts of America" on it, whereas scouts who joined before him, who therefore bought their uniforms before him, have "Scouts of America" on their uniform. Does anyone know why older uniforms have the new name and newer uniforms have the old name? I've also noticed that on the health and medical record I just filled out for cub scout camp that it refers to the "Boy Scouts of America". Why are they still using the old name some places?

Happy 4th of July from Sea Scout Ship 566!
Long Beach, California

I'm currently a leader with Brownies and Guides in the UK.

I'll be leaving Girlguiding in September due to their trans-exclusionary policies (I'm a cis-het ally).

I know the leaders of a local scout group really well - it was set up by current & ex rainbow/brownie/guide leaders of my current family units.

They don't currently have a squirrel drey in their group, due to not having the leaders willing to take it on.

Myself and another helper that are leaving brownies & guides are considering going to the "dark side" but are undecided as yet! (We've also considered setting up a woodcraft folk group or a girls' friendly society - both are older than/equally as old as scouting & guiding but they don't feel quite the same from what I've seen online, although I've never actually seen how these groups run in-person)

So .... squirrel leaders, or adults who have moved from guiding to scouting, what are your experiences? (And should I go for it?)

We're a scout group based in Liverpool UK and early Tuesday (30th) morning the storage unit where we keep all our trailers, tents, cooking equipment, canoes, kayaks, pots, pans, crayons and pencils burnt to the ground.

20+ years of fundraising, grant awards and a lot of memories and a lot of sweat and tears in maintaining our equipment by myself and the other leaders all gone in an instant has been soul destroying for all of our leaders and kids.

While we are insured, like a lot of groups we're not insured for a total loss event like this, so we're hoping Unity insurance are going to be helpful while we go through the claim process.

Check your groups insurance coverage people 😢

I'll go first:

-On my very first camping trip, I got held down and forcibly kissed by another, much older scout. It was witnessed by everyone in my patrol, but got laughed off because the other scout had some sort of mental disability. Nothing was ever done about it, and the other kid kept terrorizing other scouts with aggression and unwanted touching.

-My patrol leader (a future SPL) and his assistant PL took turns spitting at the back of my head while we were passengers in a van.

-One SPL went around punching or whipping people who had their hands in their pockets while standing around on a cold winter day.

-An older scout (mid teens) repeatedly asked me (12 years old at the time) to perform a s€X act on him. I don't know if he said those things as a joke so as to make me uncomfortable, or if he was actually serious. But as a 12 year-old I couldn't tell. I got extremely scared and told my parents. The other scout was moved to a different patrol, and he later dropped out.

-When I was an older scout, I sincerely tried to do the right thing and do a good job at Scouting. Regardless, I got repeatedly snapped at and yelled at by the scoutmaster for not being as good of an SPL or crew chief as his own son had been, despite the fact that we had faced entirely different challenges. The man had a volatile temper, and at other moments would lavish bizarrely excessive praise on me. As an adult I now recognize this as a classic manipulation and abuse tactic.

All of these things happened almost 30 years ago, but they still bother me to this day.

I was a scout for 7 years back in Venezuela. Got the highest badge as a rover and left. My scout group was very awful with me due to other stuff and decided to leave.

Now i live in Argentina and the idea of going back came into my head. At least in that way and came make new friends and go out a little. The thing is, it will be worth it? I know i'd be more like a volunteer than a regular scout do to my age. Anyone who lived a similar case? I'm all ears.

Hey all! We are new team members and eventually we will be running the scout unit..

We have come over from guiding (because trans* policies) and we are struggling with the cost of formal uniform as each shirt is like £25 ..

Does anyone know (I’ve tried Vinted) where we could get uniform a bit cheaper?

Thanks!