Group and Council Sites belonging to the United Kingdom Scout Association should be listed at:
Recreation/Scouting/Organizations/United_Kingdom_Scout_Association
Group and Council sites belonging to the United Kingdom Guide Association should be listed at:
Recreation/Scouting/Organizations/United_Kingdom_Guide_Association
Topical sites for Events, Campsites, History, etc. should be submitted to the topical categories and, if so sub-divided, to the United Kingdom sub-category of the appropriate topical category.
Only sites concerning national Scouting and Guiding organizations in the United Kingdom, dealing with UK Scouting and Guiding generally, including auxiliary organizations, or UK scouting web sites for which there is no other appropriate category within Recreation/Scouting should be submitted here.
The United Kingdom is the home of Scouting. It began in August 1907 at a trial camp on Brownsea Island. Lord Robert Baden-Powell of Gilwell, now known the world over as B-P, conducted the camp. With the publication of B-P's "Scouting for Boys" early in 1908, a youth movement spontaneously sprung up. Soon afterwards, the Scout Association was formed by B-P to give structure to the movement and to organize training, called Wood Badge, for adult leaders. Guiding was also begun in the United Kingdom. B-P quickly realized that girls were also participating in the movement, so, with his sister Agnes and later his wife, Olave, the Girl Guides were founded and developed. Further, B-P, with the aid of his brother, Warrington, an avid sailor and aficionado of canoe sailing, also founded the Sea Scouts. Scouting rapidly developed into a worldwide organization and is today the largest youth movement in the world. B-P is universally recognized as the founder of Scouting.
