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We're celebrating 100 years of Scouting!

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In 2007 the Scout Association celebrates it’s Centenary.
Yes - 100 years since Robert Baden-Powell opened an experimental camp on Brownsea Island, Dorset for 20 boys. The eight-day programme, which began on 1st August 1907, was designed to teach key skills, ranging from fun games to noble values such as chivalry and discipline.
Scouts were taught practical skills for outdoor living, including many things that the modern-day Scout is expected to know, such as how to:

·        Put up tents
·        Lay and light a fire and cook their own food
·        Tie logs together to make bridges and rafts
·        Find their way by night and day in a strange country

His new Scouting Movement, with its promise of outdoor adventure was an immediate success and has continued to grow ever since. Now, 28 million young people and adults in over 200 Countries worldwide enjoy the fun and friendship of Scouting.
Kidderminster Scouts are celebrating this Centenary Year with a programme of events and activities including: -

Centenary St Georges Day parade through the Town & a Service at Wyre Forest Glades.
Centenary Camp @ Rhydd Covert Campsite & Activity Centre - Spring Bank Holiday Scout Movement is encouraging as many young people as possible to camp this W/E.
100 Campfire Songs - Beavers, Cubs & Scouts will be singing
100 Campfire songs around the campfire in the middle of the town centre to entertain shoppers.
Kidderminster Carnival - 100 Scouts to join the carnival procession depicting 100 years of Scouting.
June 30th - BBQ @ Rhydd Covert for all past members of Scouting in Kidderminster.
1st August – Scouting’s Centenary Sunrise & Wyre Forest International Centenary Jamboree @ Rhydd Covert Campsite & Activity Centre
October - Centenary Pledged Plod - Sponsored walk around Rhydd Covert & the Rifle Range.
100 hours of Community Service to be carried out in an around the town centre.
Doing 100 Good Turns.
100 Abseils down a building in the town centre
Donating 100 pints of blood.
100 Penalties Shoot Out

Did you know?

Each Year Scouts spend over 2 million nights away from home doing adventurous activities
More young people do adventurous activities with Scouting than with any other organisation
Scouting is the only organisation to operate in all but 6 of the world’s 220 countries & territories
Each year Scouts undertaking the Queen’s Scout Award walk the equivalent distance of once around the world
Scouting is the largest membership organisation in the world working for peace