Scouting offers fun, challenge and everyday adventure to 400,000 girls and boys across the UK. Offering over 200 different activities from abseiling and archery to drama, street sports and water zorbing, Scouting helps 6-25 year olds grow in confidence, achieve their full potential and become active members of their communities.
- There are now half a million members of Scouting in the UK.
- Scouting in the UK has been growing over the past few years.
- More young people do adventurous activities as Scouts than with any other organisation.
- Each year Scouts spend over two million nights away from home doing adventurous activities.
- The youngest person to walk to the South Pole was a Scout.
- Each year Scouts tackling the King’s Scout Award walk the equivalent distance of once around the world.
- Since NASA’s formation in 1958, 181 of the 320 pilots and scientists selected by NASA were Scouts.
- 11 of the 12 people to walk on the moon were once Scouts.
- John Lennon and Paul McCartney were both Scouts (inspiring a better quality of campfire song).
- You are never more than 10 miles from a Scout Meeting Place.
- The Scout Association is part of a worldwide movement of 54 million Scouts.
I hope my story will encourage others to join our movement. My volunteer leaders believed in me as a young person and taught me to believe in myself. They showed me I could do anything I put my mind to, and others would help me along the way.
Now I want a new generation to learn the skills, friendship and belonging I felt when I needed them most. I want to show that the outdoors is a place for all of us to be at our best, that Scouts is truly open to all.’ ‘Scouting’s 500,000 members are an inspiration. It’s great to see it. It’s all about friendship and fun and adventure – people who might not normally have the chance for adventure. Scouts are shining lights in their communities.’ Chief Scout, Dwayne Fields
