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The Portuguese Scout Items Collectors Club is organizing the 28th World Scout Collectors Meeting, which will take place in Fátima - Portugal, on 1-3 May 2009. After gaining experience in organising national scout collectors meetings for a few years...

On Friday, 20 March, Mr Laurent Moutinot, a Councillor of State of the Republic and Canton of Geneva, hosted a reception for the World Scout Committee in the prestigious Alabama Room at the Hôtel de Ville (Geneva’s City Hall). It was here that the...

Vendredi 20 mars, M. Laurent Moutinot, Conseiller d’Etat de la République et du Canton de Genève recevait les membres du Comité Mondial du Scoutisme dans la prestigieuse salle de l’Alabama de l’Hotel de Ville, l’endroit qui a vu naître la Croix Rouge...

A firestorm swept across parts of Australia during February, killing 210 people, destroying more than 2,000 homes and severely damaging over 400,000 hectares of forests and farmland. A combination of a long-term drought, temperatures exceeding 46...

In 2008, in France, more than 2000 Scouts of the World Awards were given to young adults working on international solidarity projects within the Scouts of the World Programme framework, the recent Scout of the World Award ceremony was held in France...

Bastien (22 years old) and Mélanie (24 years old) are brother and sister. She likes thrills and travels, he likes mechanics and music. They are both Scout Leaders of the French Scouts and Guides Association (SGDF) in Sallanches (France). They had...

LUANDA - On 21 February 2008 The Scout Association of Angola held the first meeting of Area Commissioners. The event which brought together fifteen of the eighteen senior leaders at Area level, analyzed the state of preparedness ahead of the Second...

Thailand hosted the 57th World Baden-Powell Fellowship Event on 17-18 February in Pattaya and Bangkok. The King of Sweden, Honorary Chairman of the World Scout Foundation, recognized 44 new members of the Fellowship including seven new youth members...

The second UK Scouts of the World Award Discovery was completed by eleven members from across the UK, over two weekends they learned loads about the world around them and became great friends. The Scouts of the World Award is and International...

Would you like to join with other young people from around the world in Korea for the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) International Youth Conference on the Environment? You could share your Scouting and environment stories with other...

The Scouts of the World Base in Singapore conducted the 3rd Scouts of the World Award Discovery Workshop from the 12 to 14 December 2008! Attended by 7 participants, comprising of 3 from Singapore, 3 from Thailand and 1 from Malaysia, this was the...

UK Scouts are helping their country's so-called "digitally excluded" learn about computers and how to get online. They have been trialling an Internet Buddy Guide designed to help anyone teach a technophobe how to use the Internet. A recent report...

The 2nd Edition of Scout.Boom.Comm which contains updated information and new chapters is now available online for download. This new edition, which is available in English, French and Spanish, contains Communications Strategy recommendations...

One simple act. One huge message.

 On March 27th at 8.30pm millions of people, 1000s of cities, globally famous monuments...and many Scouts... will all switch off their lights for just 1 hour in a symbolic show of support for our one and only planet...

Today we face all sorts of environmental problems, from global warming, destruction of the ozone layer and polluted rivers, to loss of biodiversity and piles of waste. Fortunately, however, there are products and services that makes a positive...