We’re concerned and we hope you are too.

As you may have already heard, the Executive Council of the Boy Scouts of America released their proposed policy today, which keeps the gay ban in place for adult leaders but would prohibit kicking out openly gay Scout youth members “on the basis of sexual orientation or preference alone [emphasis added]”.

It disappoints me that often we as members of the UK scouting are so quick to judge other organisations based on snippets of information that comes out through social media outlets. It really get under my skin when those judgement in particular focus on the delivery of programme for young people.
I have gathered some scouting friend to create a discussion foursome to compare and contrast different elements of our Scouting programmes.

To old for Scouting was a debate or part there of I recently witnessed on twitter by some Canadian scouts. At the heart of the debate was the drive for more engagement and leadership for young people in scouting. A good thing you would think, it was post the impACT 2012 conference in Canada if you don’t know what this it check out Dylan’s Post on ScoutsBuzz I am not sure if this to old for scouting is a new debate in Canada, maybe someone from over there will respond and tell me, however in the UK over the last couple of years and now with the update in the fundamentals of Scouting there has been a significant push to see greater youth engagement and leadership within scouting. Thus the debate about people being to old for scouting comes up. The point that was made in the twitter debate I [...]

My morals tell me that everyone has a right to an opinion and everyone has the right to chose even if I don’t agree with their choices. However is it right to choose to exclude someone because they are Female or Gay or because they don’t have a predetermined Faith.

So a taxi was done, it was clear they had to use a bus next and no other bus says Great Britain than the iconic half front of a London Routemaster bus, making ‘Japan or Bust’ an entirely unique expedition.

So tell me what hidden authority would you like to find in POR, or what Authority would you enforce in uniform that you would be happy to serve one month in prison and be fined £10

Hello Dear Reader Do you have an regrets? I am sure we can all think of some but do you have any scouting regrets. I have been involved with scouting now since the age of 8 so 26 years and I have two. One of which I have been able to in part correct and the other will always be there. My first regret is that I never attended a world scout Jamboree as a Participant, this is the one I have managed to impart correct as I have attended as and adult. when I was a Scout the group I was involved was a great group but very insular, they did not really mix in District and County type events. There was only really two we got involved in, the Raft Race and the Canoe Camp, now don’t get me wrong we have a very active scouting programme and [...]