Trends In Voluteering – Ebook

The Adults we Need

Looking at how societies trends affect European Scouting.

Society and trends in an ever-changing world can have a great affect on Scouting. This publication looks at this affect and, in turn, what effect Scouting has as a movement and form of education on society. It is designed to be an aid to National Scout Organisations (NSOs) to help them utilise the changing trends for their benefit.

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Scouting In Practice – Ebook

For all Scout leaders worldwide. Its purpose is to recall the basics of Scouting to all those who take inspiration from the Scout Method for contributing to the development of children and adolescents

this booklet is intended to help everyone interested in gaining a greater understanding of how Scouting works as an educational system.

It has been been written as a tool for the Youth Programme and Adult Resources teams at national level, but it is hoped that it can be of use for all those at other levels who do their best to provide support to Scout leaders.

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Scouting an Educational System – Ebook

This booklet is intended to help everyone interested in gaining a greater understanding of how Scouting works as an educational system. It has been been written as a tool for the Youth Programme and Adult Resources teams at national level, but it is hoped that it can be of use for all those at other levels who do their best to provide support to Scout leaders.

Scouting: An educational system is intended for use by those responsible for ensuring that the Scouting offered to young people is the rich and multi-faceted learning experience that it is meant to be.

A large proportion of the publication is devoted to the Scout method in particular, because it is the Scout method that encapsulates Scouting’s educational system as it is experienced by young people. The publication explains each of the elements of the Scout method and illustrates how they interact and complement each other as a system.

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Achieving the Mission of Scouting – Ebook

A strategy for Scouting from Durban to Thessaloniki

This document builds on “1. Understanding the Mission Statement”, described above. Understanding the mission statement and using it within each Scout association is an important step. However, the next step towards achieving Scouting’s mission in today’s world requires examining the key challenges that face our Movement, considering the issues that underlie each of the challenges and taking action.

This new document presents six key challenges (a synthesis of the concerns and hopes expressed during working groups at the World Scout Conference in Durban); a number of key issues related to each challenge; and a number of concrete questions to ask.

The six key challenges are:

1. Relevance: meeting the needs and aspirations of young people;
2. Complementary nature: making a distinctive contribution to the education of young people, in particular through the Scout Method;
3. Membership: reaching out to more young people;
4. Adults: attracting and retaining the adults we need;
5. Relationships and partnerships: working with others to better serve young people;
6. Unity: pursuing a common purpose at all levels.

The document provides an outline of a 2-day workshop to help key leaders at all levels of a Scout association to start (or review) the process of making sure that Scouting really achieves its mission in today’s society – throughout the world.

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Understanding the Mission Statement – Ebook

A strategy for Scounting from Durban to Thessaloniki

This document examines Scouting’s mission statement and offers a variety of ways of looking at the text. The aim of this document is to help WOSM’s national Scout associations around the world to understand, translate and disseminate the mission statement in their own language and culture.

For the first time, the World Scout Conference, meeting in Durban in July 1999, adopted a mission statement for Scouting. The adoption of the mission statement is the latest milestone in the work undertaken by the World Organization of the Scout Movement on the development of a Strategy for Scouting. The statement, which is based on WOSM’s Constitution, is intended to reaffirm Scouting’s role in today’s world.

The Conference also adopted Resolution 3/99 requesting that appropriate follow-up be made at all levels of the Movement to facilitate the implementation of the Mission.

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The World Programme Policy – Ebook

Contains the policy statement adopted by the 32nd World Scout Conference, and relevant background material. The policy defines youth programme, describes the process of programme development, comments on programme delivery, and outlines the responsibilities of national Scout associations and the World Organization of the Scout Movement in this field.

DEFINITION OF YOUTH PROGRAMME

Youth Programme is the totality of what young people do in Scouting (the activities), how it is done (the Scout method) and the reason why it is done (the purpose)

Totality: Youth Programme covers the complete span of a young person’s experience in the Movement. It is a progressive process of education and personal development.

What: Youth Programme encompasses all activities in which young people in Scouting take part. They must be attractive and challenging to young people.

How: Youth Programme, fundamentally, uses the Scout method in carrying out its activities.

Why: Youth Programme is the means of achieving the purpose of Scouting, based on its fundamental principles.

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The Essential Characteristics of Scouting – Ebook

On the basis of WOSM’s Constitution, this paper provides a compact but comprehensive overview of the key elements which characterize our Movement and its mission.

Within the framework of the work on the Strategy for Scouting, the World Scout Committee, through its Strategy Task Force, prepared this paper on “The Essential Characteristics of Scouting”. On the basis of WOSM’s Constitution, the paper provides a compact but comprehensive overview of the key elements which characterize our Movement and its mission.

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WOSM Constitution – Ebook

Accredited representatives of National Scout Associations, which had adopted and practised the Scout Movement founded by Robert Baden-Powell in 1907, assembled in Paris, France, in July 1922 and established the International Scout Conference for the coordination of the Scout Movement throughout the world, together with an Executive Committee and a Secretariat.

The present Constitution, as amended in January 2011, governs the operation of the World Organization of the Scout Movement in a kindred spirit of world cooperation and friendship.

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SCENES Guidelines – Ebook

A Scout Centre of Excellence for Nature and Environment (SCENES) Centre is a very special place. It is a centre that has made a long term commitment to protect the environment and promote environmental understanding.

A SCENES Centre is committed to protecting its natural environment, minimising its environmental impact and enabling all who are connected with the centre to engage with nature and become empowered to make their own personal commitment to the environment.

A SCENES Centre leads by example and acts as a positive role model to other Scout and non Scout centres, to its guests and to its local community. It can provide real hands-on educational activities for Scouts and training opportunities for leaders, equipping them with an enthusiasm for nature and a desire to do something positive for the environment in their home-life.

SCENES was developed during the 1990’s as an initiative of the World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM). Nine Scout centres around the world developed environmental management practices and education programmes and became formally recognised as SCENES.

The ideas at the heart of SCENES are now widely accepted as important among Scout centres around the world. SCENES, through its support network and accreditation system, enables centres to achieve their environmental goals and benefit fully from their commitment to environmental excellence.

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World Scout Environment Programme – Ebook

Activities & Factsheets

The World Scout Environment Programme offers tools, resources and initiatives to help Scouts all around the world work together for the good of the local and global environment. This World Scout Environment Programme resource book contains Programme Activity Resources in Section 1 and Factsheets in Section 2 to help implement the programme in Scouting throughout the world.

The fifteen Programme Activity Resources relate to each of the five aims for environment education in Scouting and three broad age ranges. A symbol has been used to help illustrate which of the aims the activity is focusing on. These activities are presented to you as examples for how the framework could be implemented amongst local level Scout Groups, though there are many ways to present activities for the World Scout Environment Badge. Wherever possible the programme should be presented outdoors, allowing the Scouts to explore for themselves and discover the natural world.

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