© 1st Fareham Scouts   Authors: Mark Butler & Adam Potter

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The scouting movement was started by Lord Baden Powell when he ran an experimental camp on Brownsea Island in 1907. 20 mixed boys from different social classes attended the camp which was a huge success. It is the concept of making scouting cross class boundaries that is the basis of scouting to this day.

As a result of this first camp, Baden Powell wrote the book ‘Scouting for Boys’.  It was an instant best seller and spread the tenets of the scouting movement across the UK and, eventually, around the world.

Scouts acted on what they had read in ‘Scouting for Boys’ and all over the country they were meeting up, organising scouting activities. However, these were not properly organised and the public appealed to King Edward VII to ask Baden Powell to give up his career in the army and run the organisation on a purely voluntary basis.

Baden Powell travelled the country meeting people of all ranks of society and getting them to work locally to organise scouting and so the scouting movement began.  

Baden Powell said himself, on the radio that “I have often been accused of starting the scout movement, nothing is further from the truth. I wrote a book, the boys started scouting.” He did what he was asked to do -write a book for young people.

Beavers are the youngest of the scouting family, with an age range of 6-8 years old. They are not allowed to go out on camp but may have a 24 hour stay in a hut. The beaver section started in 1987.

The motto of the scouting movement is: “Be Prepared”.

Cubs Scouts are the middle age group of the scouting family, with an age range of 8-10 years old. Cub Scouts are organised into Packs. They were created in 1917 and were originally known as Wolf Cubs.

Scouts are the oldest members of 1st Fareham (it has no Explorers group as yet). They are organised into Patrols.  Scouts were the first group in the scouting movement.