The week of eager boys performing household tasks in exchange for a few pennies was brought to an end in 1992 over health and safety fears and child protection legislation. But the concept has now been brought back, as more than 40,000 young male and female Scouts this week take to the streets to [...]
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Archive | Youth Groups
Scouts’ Bob-a-Job week is back as Britain learns to value volunteering again – Telegraph
Posted on 16 May 2012.
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BBC News – Scout to undertake volunteer projects in Community Week
Posted on 14 May 2012.
Up to 525,000 Scouts across the UK are set to take part in their first week of community volunteering since “bob-a-job” week ended 20 years ago. Planned activities include tackling speeding, removing graffiti, renovating care homes and building habitats for rare bees. The young people have been encouraged to do jobs which will help their [...]
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Me and my school photo: Lesley Garrett remembers her Girl Guide days and being cast as Eliza Doolittle | Mail Online
Posted on 14 May 2012.
This picture shows me as a Girl Guide aged about 11, shortly after I’d joined up. I loved the Guides (I’m still a supporter) and rose to the heady heights of patrol leader. Camping was the bit I enjoyed most, especially if it involved getting together with the Scouts! The eldest of three girls, I [...]
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They love Nicki Minaj and Adele – but where are the real guides for girls? – The Independent
Posted on 11 May 2012.
They look to Cheryl Cole, Katy Perry, Jessie J and Adele for their role models. But few girls can identify any successful businesswomen and most failed to name a single sportswoman. According to a report by Girlguiding UK, the Disney starlets Miley Cyrus and Selena Gomez were role models for children aged seven to 11, [...]
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Bob-a-job week is back – Telegraph
Posted on 07 May 2012.
For generations of Scouts, it was a time for raising money by performing good deeds – until health and safety fears and the rise of compensation culture saw it scrapped. Now, 20 years after the last one, Bob-a-Job week will this week be revived by the Scout Association, as leaders attempt to rebuild the [...]
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Queen’s Scout Awards: Bear Grylls meets at monarch at Windsor Castle to honour hundreds of youngsters | Mail Online
Posted on 30 April 2012.
When you’re Chief Scout, you have to be prepared for important occasions. And none could be more momentous than meeting the Queen. Bear Grylls’s pride was evident today as he introduced the monarch at the annual scouting review, held at Windsor Castle. The adventurer, who has been Chief Scout since 2009, was there along with [...]
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BBC News – More teenagers opt to be scout leaders, census shows
Posted on 19 April 2012.
The number of teenagers signing up to become scout leaders has exceeded 10,000 for the first time, a census from the Scout Association shows. Young leaders, aged 14 to 18, now total 10,394, up from 9,030 in 2011. The association says youngsters may see scout leadership as a way of boosting their skills in tough [...]
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New uniforms help Muslim girl Scouts to be better prepared – Telegraph
Posted on 03 April 2012.
One uniform, available from Friday, includes a “hoodie dress” to stop headscarves falling off and long-sleeves to protect a girl’s modesty that can be used for activities including abseiling and climbing. Another T-shirt-style suitable for warmer weather is currently being finalised ready for the summer. Both uniforms, created by Sarah Elenany, a British designer of [...]
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Two men ‘stole cash box from Texas Girl Scouts’ outside Walmart in Fort Bend | Mail Online
Posted on 05 March 2012.
Two Texas Girl Scouts almost earned badges in crime fighting when they tried to stop two men from stealing the money that their group had made selling boxes of cookies. The group of girls were selling boxes outside of a Walmart in Fort Bend on Saturday when a man approached them and asked about the [...]
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The only way is Guiding – Telegraph
Posted on 28 February 2012.
This is an era when the word “ladette” has entered the language as a term for young women behaving like their male adolescent counterparts, with a penchant for excessive drinking and violence. So it is cheering to note that there are many girls who have eschewed this cultural trend and prefer to spend their evenings [...]
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Girl Guides go from strength to strength | The Guardian
Posted on 28 February 2012.
Girl Guiding may conjure up images of cake sales, songs around the campfire and a myriad other things you’d struggle to believe modern smartphone-carrying girls would be interested in. Yet they rushed to join up at the rate of one every hour last year, making it the biggest youth organisation in the UK. After 8,200 [...]
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Lawmaker Bob Morris refuses to support Girl Scouts 100th anniversary as ‘they promote homosexuality and encourage sex’ | Mail Online
Posted on 21 February 2012.
A lawmaker has refused to sign a resolution celebrating the Girl Scouts’ 100th anniversary as the group has become a ‘radicalised organisation’. Republican Representative Bob Morris from Fort Wayne, Indiana claims they promote a ‘homosexual lifestyle’, transgenders and the values of Planned Parenthood. Morris wrote to his fellow House Republicans to explain why he would [...]
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Beaver scouts to hold sponsored sleepover in Lord Mayor’s Mansion House | News
Posted on 17 February 2012.
The Lord Mayor’s Mansion House is set to be occupied this weekend – as a group of beaver scouts from Wandsworth hold a sponsored sleepover. The group of six- to eight-year-olds will camp out in the Great Egyptian Hall, surrounded by 150-year-old statues, to raise money for the Sparks children’s charity. The 15 boys and [...]
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Scouts weren’t prepared for this… squatters from St Paul’s
Posted on 03 February 2012.
Squatters from the St Paul’s protest camp have taken over central London’s Scouting headquarters – and police claim they are powerless to evict them. The occupation has locked children and teenagers out of their community hall where they study for badges and had planned to sleep over to highlight homelessness. It is the most dramatic [...]
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Fat Smitty’s restaurant owner donates 10,000 dollar bills to charity | Mail Online
Posted on 30 January 2012.
For years, customers at Fat Smitty’s hamburger restaurant have stuck personalised dollar bills to the eatery’s walls and ceiling. Now the owner of the landmark diner – which sits on Highway 101 in Discovery Bay, Washington – has finally taken down the vast collection of banknotes and donated the cash to charity. Carl ‘Fat Smitty’ [...]
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Kate Middleton Scouting: Duchess of Cambridge is latest cover girl for movement’s magazine | Mail Online
Posted on 29 January 2012.
Anna Wintour may be one of the most successful women in publishing, but she has nothing on Scouting magazine. For they have succeeded where Wintour didn’t, by securing the Duchess of Cambridge as a covergirl for their latest issue. Last October, rumours were abound that the U.S. Vogue editor was desperate to place Catherine on [...]
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Cadets and Scouts can give teenagers the skills to succeed in life, says Boris | Mayor
Posted on 20 January 2012.
Boris Johnson today told how he wants to encourage “self-reliance and discipline” in troubled teenagers across the capital by encouraging them to join the cadets, Scouts and Guides. The Mayor, who was in the cadets in his youth, wants to set up nearly 40 new uniformed groups over the next three years and said he [...]
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New Girl Scout cookie 2012: Savannah Smiles and Girl Scouts celebrate 100th anniversary | Mail Online
Posted on 06 January 2012.
For anyone eagerly awaiting the sound of the doorbell so they can stockpile their favourite Samoas and Thin Mints, a bit of self-restraint may pay off. The Girl Scouts are marking their 100th anniversary this year with the launch of a new cookie. Savannah Smiles is a lemon-flavoured wedge-shaped cookie named after the hometown of [...]
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Kate joins the Scouts: Ex-Brownie to help with cooking and campfires as package of royal patronages is unveiled | Mail Online
Posted on 05 January 2012.
The Duchess of Cambridge is to become a volunteer helper at her local scout group as part of a new package of royal patronages. Kate will wear the Scout Association’s distinctive blue shirt, scarf and famous woggle as she lends a hand at meetings close to the rented farmhouse she shares with Prince William on [...]
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BBC News – Duchess of Cambridge to work with north Wales Scouts
Posted on 05 January 2012.
The Duchess of Cambridge is to become a volunteer in the Scout Association, working with youngsters in north Wales. The Scout Association said Kate will be getting her “hands dirty” teaching Beavers and Cubs – aged from six to 10 – a variety of skills including putting up tents and lighting fires. She will work [...]
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Scout’s bring back Bob-a-Job week to return
Posted on 19 October 2011.
It was a rite of passage for generations of scouts and now Bob-a-Job week is making a comeback after a 20-year break.
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Libya: Boy Scouts on the front line
Posted on 26 August 2011.
In their fight to win Tripoli, it turns out that Libya’s anti-Gaddafi rebels have a secret weapon: the Boy Scouts.
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Scouts sleep over in Downing St garden
Posted on 05 August 2011.
The Downing Street garden will become a campsite this weekend when a group of Beaver Scouts from Wandsworth hold a summer sleepover.
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Sorry, you have to be addicted to drugs!
Posted on 09 June 2011.
Scouts told they’re too well behaved to get council funds to repair their hut
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Be prepared’ for equality
Posted on 06 June 2011.
The Scouts look to recruit more gay leaders and members
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Missing Boy Scouts rescued from the air after rising flood waters stranded them in Arkansas wilderness
Posted on 04 May 2011.
These scouts had an experience of a lifetime.
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Scouts: Girls overtake boys in admissions
Posted on 16 April 2011.
More girls than boys became scouts in the past year – the first time this has happened in the movement’s history.
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What would Lord Baden-Powell say?
Posted on 15 April 2011.
For first time, more girls than boys join Scouts
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Scouts ‘Bob-a-Job’ to get a business makeover
Posted on 27 December 2010.
It’s back. After two decades in the wilderness, the Scouts are planning to resurrect Bob-a-Job week as a way of creating a new generation of entrepreneurial young people.
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The Scouts mean business, so be prepared
Posted on 24 July 2010.
The Scouts mean business, so be prepared
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Hurrah for the Scouts’ new entrepreneurs badge
Posted on 22 July 2010.
Hurrah for the Scouts’ new entrepreneurs badge
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Scouts appeal for Muslim leaders
Posted on 11 May 2010.
The scouts have launched an urgent recruitment drive targeted at Britain’s Muslim community.
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Boy Scouts to earn badges for playing video games
Posted on 30 April 2010.
Boy Scouts have traditionally been rewarded for skills in tent pitching, knot tying and building campfires. But, in an attempt to keep up with changing times, scouts will now be able to show off a very different talent: playing video games.
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Scout level rise biggest in 38 years, association says
Posted on 19 April 2010.
The number of scouts in the UK has increased by 16,500 since the start of 2009, the biggest growth in 38 years, according to figures.
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‘Harrods bars’ Hampshire scouts wearing woggles
Posted on 18 March 2010.
A group of scouts say they were turned away from London department store Harrods after refusing to remove their neckerchiefs and woggles.
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Scouts brave the ice for annual winter camp
Posted on 10 January 2010.
The ice and snow have not put off everyone from venturing outdoors.
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