The countdown begins in ernest!
There are just Seven days left until the 1st Sittingbourne Scout Group opens. Cubs start at 6pm for young people 8-10.5 years and Scouts at 7.30pm for young people 10.5-14 years.
Dont be shy join in the adventure come and join us on the 7th March at the Salvation Army, Shortlands Street, Sittingbourne. Scouting is a fantastic adventure ~ BE PART OF IT!
For more information contact us at sittingbournesascouts@yahoo.co.uk
The 22 February 2007 was the 150th birthday of Lord Robert Baden-Powell, of Gilwell, Founder of the World Scout Movement. The anniversary is celebrated by Scouts across the world as ‘Founder’s Day’ and will be marked by many special events.
2007 is a special year for Scouting as it is it’s centenary.Scouting today owes a great debt of gratitude for the principles and ideals laid down by Robert Baden Powell the first Chief Scout of the World.
Co-incidentally, Baden-Powell shared his birthday with his wife, Olave, who later became World Chief Guide. Girlguiding UK celebrates the same day as ‘Thinking Day.’
Scouting has moved on since those early days in 1907 but the same principles of leaving the world a better place than you found it, service to others, duty to God and country still remain today, but with very much a modern theme and culural relevance.
The following is taken from the Wikepedia web site entry :
After having been educated at Charterhouse School, Baden-Powell joined the British Army in 1876, and was posted in India and Africa, and served three years in the British Secret Intelligence Service. In 1899, during the Second Boer War in South Africa, Baden-Powell successfully defended the city in the Siege of Mafeking. In 1910 he retired from the Army.
Baden-Powell was a prolific painter and writer. Several of his military books, written for military reconnaissance and scout training in his African years, were also used by boys. Based on those earlier books, he wrote Scouting for Boys, published in 1908 by Pearson, for youth readership. During writing, he tested his ideas through a camping trip on Brownsea Island in 1907, which is now seen as the beginning of Scouting. After his marriage with Olave St Clair Soames, he, his sister Agnes Baden-Powell and notably his wife actively gave guidance to the Scouting Movement and the Girl Guides Movement. Baden-Powell is buried in Nyeri, Kenya.
The 1st Sittingbourne (SA) Scout Group Open’s on 7th March 2007 and will follow these ideals and principles offering quality Scouting to all young people. Come along find out out more on the 7th March. For further information contact us at sittingbournesascouts@yahoo.co.uk
There are only four weeks left until the 1st Sittingbourne (SA), the newest Scout Group in Kent, opens its doors.
Don’t miss out! Come and join the adventure, register at
sittingbournesascouts@yahoo.co.uk
