Scouts plan to sell off camp amid funding crisis from Covid pandemic
Share Baden Powell was spurred on to set up the Scouts after fighting in the Boer War and realising there was a gap for a movement to give young boys a purpose. In August 1907, he organised a trial scouting camp to be made up of 20 boys from a diverse selection of social backgrounds. They spent a week on Brownsea Island in Dorset and it proved to be a great success. From there, the idea blossomed and the first National Scout Rally was attended by 11,000 boys in Crystal Palace, south London, in 1909. In February 1929, 66 acres was signed over to the then Boy Scouts of London in Downe, in the b...
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