Retired Scouter's Sites:
Scouting Information:- Activities
- Downloads
- Games
- Scoutmaster's Minutes
- Spoken Table Graces
- Sung Table Graces
- The Jungle Book
Online (Linked) Resources:
Links: 14,874. - April 28/09.
Scouting Units:
Scouting Information:
- Activities
- Backpacking
- Badge Requirements
- Bugle Calls
- Campfire
- Camping
- Camp Cooking/Dutch ovens/Food, etc.
- Camporee
- Canoeing
- Ceremonies
- Clipart/Graphics
- Crafts
- Cub Scouts
- Eagle Scout
- Equipment
- Fires
- First Aid
- Flags
- Games
- Hiking
- History
- Humour (Cdn.)/Humor (U.S.)
- Jungle
- Klondike Derby
- Knots
- Leaders
- Maps
- Miscellaneous
- Morse Code
- Museums
- National Sites
- Pioneering
- Reunion
- Scout Roundtable
- Scouting Wisdom
- Songs
- Spiritual
- Stories
- Survival
- Troop Information (U.S.)
- Uniform
- Websites
- Woggles/Slides
- Winter Camping
- Woodworking
- Word Search
- Zipped Files
The Scouting Structure in the United Kingdom varies substantially from the structure in the United States. It does, however, closely parallel the structure in Canada and Australia (or, if you prefer, the Canadian and Australian structure closely parallels the structure in the United Kingdom).
The United Kingdom has four large scouting areas called Countries. (England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland).
Each of the countries is comprised of Counties, a smaller geographical area.
Each County is comprised of Districts.
Each District is Comprised of Groups.
Each Group is comprised of the various sections: Beavers, Cubs, Scouts.
There are also Explorer scouts, which are supposed to be attached to the District, according to the UK Scouts main page. From my surfing, there are a number of groups that claim Explorer scouts as part of their group. 'Sort of' equivalent to the Venturer programs in Canada and Australia.
There is also a level called the Network. This section is for older youth/young adults 18 to 26. 'Sort of' equivalent to Rovers in the Canadian and Australian program.
Finally, there is a section called Fellowship. This section seems to be reserved for adults who want to provide help in scouting functions, but do not directly work with youth. This section is 'sort of' equivalent to the BP Guilds in Canada, and 'sort of' equivalent to the Geezer/Old Goat Patrol in the US program.
Not every group has all of the sections listed above, for a variety of reasons.
The United Kingdom Scouts number some 400,000, making it a lot larger in terms of membership than Australia and Canada, but a lot less than the US.
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June 25, 2008: I'm currently revising this particular piece of the website.
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UK Scout Countries on this website:
England
Ireland
Scotland
Wales
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Beavers
Cubs
Scouts
Sea Scouts
Scouting Groups
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