Scouts UK
100 Years of Scouting, 1907 - 2007
by Peter Mayne - Grey Wolf 1974 - 1983
2007 marked the 100 year anniversary of the creation of the Boy Scout Association. It was in the 1st August 1907 that Lord Baden Powell took a party of boys to camp on Brownsea Island in Poole Harbour. From these simple beginnings the movement began.