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A collection of Scout badges, attached to a shirt sleeve The "Outdoor" badge from The Scout Association in the United Kingdom. Scout badges are worn on the uniforms of members of Scouting organisations across the world in order to signify membership and achievements. There is a great variety of badges, not only between the different national ...
This list of highest awards in Scouting is an index to articles on notable awards given to youth members in the various national Scouting organizations. Most of these awards require a mastery of Scoutcraft and leadership and the performance of community service—only a small percentage of Scouts attain these awards.
The camp blanket [2] is a significant piece of memorabilia for many Scouts and Girl Guides around the world. Scouts and Guides sew badges onto the blanket to represent all their achievements and events competed in, and out, of Scouting. Camp blankets are often used to display and store badges "earned" in a younger section, e.g. a Guide will sew ...
A Scout's duty is to be useful and to help others. A Scout is a friend to all and a brother to every other Scout, no matter to what social class the other belongs. A Scout is courteous. A Scout is a friend to animals. A Scout obeys orders of his patrol leader or Scout master without question. A Scout smiles and whistles under all difficulties.
A selection of Scout badges earned from the UK including activity badges, staged activity badges and former designs for proficiency badges and challenge awards. Activity badges are awarded for demonstrating skill or achievement in a particular subject which may be an existing hobby or a new area of knowledge.
The British Boy Scouts was founded in 1908 as the Battersea Boy Scouts, a local association of Scout troops. The Battersea Boy Scouts later briefly registered with Baden-Powell's Boy Scouts organisation but, in 1909, withdrew and formed the British Boy Scouts (BBS), out of a concern that Baden-Powell's organisation was too bureaucratic and militaristic and too closely associated with ...
A selection of Cub Scout badges including Staged Activity badges (left), Activity badges (top), Challenge awards used 2002-2015 (bottom, middle) and Activity badges used pre-2002 (bottom right). In common with other sections in Scouting, Cub Scouts earn badges to be sewn onto their uniform to recognise and represent achievements during their ...
The Wood Badge is an award for Scout leader training, first awarded by The Boy Scouts Association in the United Kingdom in 1919 and subsequently adopted, with variations, by some other Scout organizations. Wood Badge courses teach Scout leadership skills and instil an ideological bond and commitment to the organizations.