Scouting and Guiding in the United Kingdom

Scouting and Guiding in the United Kingdom is served by several different organisations:

• The Scout Association, member of World Organization of the Scout Movement
• Girlguiding UK, member of World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts
  • Trefoil Guild, corporate member of Girlguiding UK[1] and member of International Scout and Guide Fellowship
• Baden-Powell Scouts' Association, member of World Federation of Independent Scouts
• Pathfinder Scouts Association and Rover Explorer Scouts Association
• European Scout Federation (British Association), member of Confédération Européenne de Scoutisme
• The British Boy Scouts and British Girl Scouts Association, (BBS & BGS) member of Order of World Scouts
• Plast-Ukrainian Scouting in Great Britain
• Boys' Brigade
• Girls' Brigade
• Royal Rangers in The United Kingdom
• Pathfinders, a youth organisation of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, member of Pathfinders International[2][3]
• British Camp Fire Girls' Association
• Adult Scout Alliance, which includes B-P Scout Guild Scotland and Baden-Powell Guild of Great Britain, member of International Scout and Guide Fellowship
• Student Scout and Guide Organisation
• Scout and Guide Graduate Association
• UK Navigators[4]

Independent British Scout organisations usually follow more traditional Scouting methods practised by Baden-Powell. Examples include the Baden-Powell Scouts[5] (formed in 1970), Pathfinder Scouts Association (formed in 2003) and the Rover Explorer Scouts Association, which uses Scouting based on Christian values.[6]

Other Scout organisations in the United Kingdom include independent branches of the Polish Scout Association, the Hungarian Scout Association,[6] the Lithuanian Scouts Association[7] and a chapter of Homenetmen in London.[8] The roots of these émigré organisations are the Second World War and the Cold War when refugees fled their countries and international communities in the UK wishing to maintain their home culture of Scouting rather than following the British Scouting Programme.

Also International Scout and Guide units are active in the United Kingdom. Scouts et Guides de France operates one group in London.[9] There also American Scout units, served by the Transatlantic Council,[10] American Girl Scouts served by the USAGSO headquarters.[11] and Israel Scouts tribes in London[12]

Catholic Guides of Ireland and Scouting Ireland are both also active in Northern Ireland.

See also

• Scouting in displaced persons camps

Notes

1. "History". Trefoil Guild. Archived from the original on 13 May 2008. Retrieved 24 October 2008.
2. "SEC Pathfinders". SEC Pathfinders. Archived from the original on 23 March 2009.
3. "BUC Camporee 2008". BUC.
4. "Five Years' Growth for Navigators". www.hd8network.co.uk. HD8 Network. 13 September 2023. Retrieved 18 June 2023.
5. "Independent Scouts in the United Kingdom". Scout History Association. Retrieved 18 August 2007.
6. "Non-aligned Scouting Associations". Adventure! Troop 97. Retrieved 19 August 2007.
7. "Lietuviu Skautu Sajunga-Europa Gelezinio Vilko Draugove Pietu Anglia". Lithuanian Scouts Association. Retrieved 24 October 2008.
8. "Welcome to Homenetmen London". Homenetmen's London chapter. Retrieved 24 October 2008.
9. "Erascout" (in French). Scouts et Guides de France. Archived from the original on 18 December 2012. Retrieved 17 October 2012.
10. "TAC-Districts". TAC-BSA. Archived from the original on 13 October 2009. Retrieved 17 October 2012.
11. "Facts about USA Girl Guides Overseas" (PDF). Girl Scouts of the USA. Retrieved 17 October 2012.
12. "Being prepared for Israel in London". ALONDON. Retrieved 29 January 2014.