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​Hi everyone! I'm a Scout from AGESCI (Italy). I'm currently working on my "European Scout" specialty badge 🇪🇺.

​I’m looking to connect with Scout groups from all around Europe.

​I’d love to:

​Exchange a short message between our groups.

​Share a traditional Scout game or song from our countries.

​ (If possible) Swap a group patch, neckerchief, or badge!

​If you're a Scout or a Leader from a European group and would like to connect, drop a comment or Send me a DM! Buona Caccia to all! ⚜️

More a post aimed at UK Scouts (Preferably leaders, though all are welcome:

As far as I have learnt from google, every british scout leader should have a set off wooden beads as to become a leader they must complete their wood badge. However i would like a conclusion on:

What number of beads

Why doesnt every leader wear the beads

Etc

Any information is helpful, feel free to ask any questions, thanks.

Having a breakdown here. I just realised whenever I see a camp blanket they are always dullish colours. Or they are that poncho blanket with the red stitching. I feel as though I stand out here as i lay down beneath my banana yellow blanket. Am I missinf something?

Why don't we see more colourful blankets. Mines yellow simply because i like yellow. Sure your favourite colour can be grey or black but where are the reds and pinks and oranges. (Mine may also be yellow as it was the only colour left in stock at wilko years ago ;)

Also if you try and look on ebay for scout camp poncho style things. Grey with red stithcing! All of them. Is this a style or scouty thing I am unaware of?

Sadly with no photo, I did manage to convert my blanket into a poncho by cutting a slim oval into the centre and hemming it. I then stitched 2 pockets onto the front from a different fabric.

Please clear my confusion. Thanks, ask any questions if you want. :)

We’ve been having issues with our Scouts being on their phones and a couple of phone getting lost (all of which were later found) so we have a phone box/bag that phones go in during meetings. I take photographs of the Scouts and their activities to be able to put on our private facebook group for parents to see but I have been thinking it would be good if the scouts took photos as well maybe to be shown on a slide show at our AGM. This leads me to my question.

Does anyone else have patrol cameras? If so what cameras do you use/what prices I’m not sure wherever to look at digital cameras or disposable ones.

Edit: this seems to have sparked a lot of opinions about phones at meetings, we have already made a decision about phones at our meetings and it’s been in place for the past couple of months, it has worked well for us and we don’t plan on changing it. What I’d like to know is about cameras - not phone cameras.

TIA

Hi, we are a scout group from Vienna visiting London for two days.
We're staying until Saturday and would love to meet up with another scout group and spend the afternoon or evening together.
If anyone wants to meet up, please let us know!
Many thanks,
Scout Group 19, Vienna 🫶

Hi everyone,

I'm currently working on a project to document Scout neckerchiefs from around the world.

While building the database, I realized how difficult it is to identify older or regional neckers. I'd love to hear from collectors and Scouts:

• Do you collect neckerchiefs?
• How do you organize your collection?
• Are there any online resources you use?
• What information would you expect from a digital archive?

I'm hoping to make this a useful resource for the entire Scouting community, so any feedback or ideas would be greatly appreciated!

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All Scarf Icons are designed by me using Adobe Illustrator!

Salve!

Sono un capo scout che non ha mai fatto l'esperienza da ragazzo, né lupetti, né reparto, né clan, nada.

Ho fatto per 6 anni capo lupetti e ora stanno cercando di "condurmi amichevolmente" in reparto dato che non vogliono che mi fossilizzi troppo con i lupetti, però io vedo una difficoltà di tipo lavorativo nel senso che già ora arrivo tirato con le ferie, se avessi anche una settimana in più di campo in un periodo dove ci sono già tanti colleghi in ferie e magari mi sognassi anche di fare un CFM sarebbe un bel casino, quindi pensavo di dire di no.

A me ispirerebbe molto di più il clan se dovessi cambiare, perché l'esperienza di strada fatta al CFA mi è piaciuta molto, anche se essendo in inverno non abbiamo dormito in tenda, e poi anche le tematiche che so che si affrontano durante l'anno sono belle tematiche, adulte, e la cosa mi ispira. L'unico dubbio che ho, e qui sorge la mia domanda, è: per un capo che non ha mai vissuto reparto e clan da ragazzo, che competenze (anche pratiche) sono richieste per fare il capo clan? Perché non conosco molto l'ambiente, ma so che il noviziato ha un maestro dei novizi quindi forse occorrono delle competenze che a me mancano. Sarebbe fattibile o meglio evitare?