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The World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM / ˈ w ʊ z əm /) is the largest international scout organization and was established in 1922. [1] [2] It has 176 members. [3]These members are national scout organizations that founded WOSM or have subsequently been recognised by WOSM, which collectively have around 43 million participants.
Scouting portal; This category lists the national Scouting organizations within the World Organization of the Scout Movement as well as the national sub-federations and -associations, which are affiliated to a WOSM-member.
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 ...
In 1920, a conference held during the 1st World Scout Jamboree at Olympia, London agreed to create a Boy Scouts international bureau. An office was established at 25 Buckingham Palace Road, London and The Boy Scouts Association of the United Kingdom International Commissioner, Hubert S. Martin, was appointed as honorary director.
Dating from 1915, it is the world's oldest student Scouting group, first as a club for former Scouts, from 1920 as a Rover crew. They are housed in the Scout Centre " Kruithuis ", the monumental gunpowder ammunition dump of the Dutch Republic , designed in 1660 by Pieter Post .
Robert Baden-Powell and J.S. Wilson during the 4th World Jamboree held in Gödöllő, Hungary (1933).. Colonel John Skinner "Belge" Wilson (1888–1969) was a Scottish scouting luminary and friend and contemporary of General Baden-Powell, recruited by him to head the World Organization of the Scout Movement's bureau.
Scouting Round the World, first edition. Scouting 'Round the World is the seminal work on world Scouting, [1] a publication of the World Organization of the Scout Movement, updated every three years, [citation needed] with details on all WOSM member-nation organizations. The equivalent publication of the World Association of Girl Guides and ...
Since its inception in 1907, the Scout Movement has spread from the United Kingdom to 216 countries and territories around the world. There are at least 520 separate national or regional Scouting associations in the world and most have felt the need to create international Scouting organisations to set standards for Scouting and to coordinate activities among member associations.