Just imagine it - in one years time to this very day you will be joining with 28 million other Scouts from around the world to celebrate the dawn of a new Century of Scouting.
Scouting was founded on 1st August 1907 and so this day one hundred years on provides an excellent opportunity to celebrate and demonstrate the relevance of 21st Century Scouting for 21st Century young people. At Brownsea Island, two representatives from every single NSO in the world where Scouting exists, will gather on the island where Scouting began and renew their promise, stood on the spot that those young people stood 100 years ago to the day.
And across Berkshire as the sunshine sweeps around the globe to the UK, Scouts in their Groups and Units will renewing their Promise in their local communities.
And on 1 August 2007 72 young people from Berkshire will be renewing their promise along with 40,000 other participants at the 21st World Scout Jamboree in Hylands Park Essex - follow the Jamboree Units on the Berkshire Scouts Jamboree Website.
On the 1 August 2007 you will be 8 months in to the Join-in Centenary Adventure. What a time we will have had! The Join-in-Centenary is a year-long programme of month-by-month activities for all Members of Scouting. In September 2006 specially prepared packs will be sent out - one specific to each Section, helping Leaders provide a busy and exciting year of activity for their Scouts. The programme will take you on a journey that helps you and your Scouts explore adventure, international friendship, community and the environment among other themes. Join-in-Centenary is also totally interactive, allowing it to be adapted to suit local needs, local priorities and activities. Group Scout Leaders will receive copies for their Colonies, Packs and Troops; District Commissioners will receive copies for their Explorer Scout Units, plus one each of the Beaver, Cub, Scout and Explorer packs to enable the District to provide Programme support.
It is going to be a great time for introducing people to the adventure of Scouting - a fabulous time to to get more Adult Volunteers and to provide even better Scouting to even more young people across Berkshire.
You can find out more about the Centenary Adventure at the the new Scout Association 2007 site at www.scouts.org.uk/2007
2007 is Scouting's Centenary - a year of adventure, international friendship and an opportunity to change the world for good. Lets live the dream and make it happen
Just imagine it, in three years to this very day, the seven days of adventure, challenge and fun which will be the fabulous WINGS2009 experience will be just starting. Thousands of young people from all around the world will be converging on the WINGS2009 site in Berkshire in the UK for a week of non-stop action. They will live together with young people from many countries from across the globe in peace and they will have the opportunity to explore new ideas and learn about other cultures and faiths.
Today on the 1 August 2006 with three years to go, over seventy Units have already signed up their intent to participate in the WINGS2009 Experience, representing over 1500 participants. The Units which have signed up so far come from 3 of the continents of the world and we are anticipating registrations from Units in the other continents shortly!
We have already signed up 130 enthusiastic volunteers to help plan and deliver WINGS2009 and some of these are already working in the Planning Team and the Admin Team to lay the foundations for WINGS2009 building on the successes in '93, '98 and 2003. Amongst these 130 are 20 WINGS Ambassadors who are helping spread the word on the complete WINGS Experience.
Is your Unit registered to get all the news on WINGS2009 as it happens? If not sign up here.
Want to be part of the WINGS2009 Team - lots of opportunities to help in all sorts of ways - sign up here
Visit the WINGS2009 website today and catch up on all the news and developments. See WINGS from space! The front page of the WINGS2009 website www.wings2009.org.uk now contains a satellite photograph of the WINGS2003 camp in Windsor Great Park. If you were there, you probably will not be able to spot yourself as it was taken early morning and you would have been sleeping in preparation for another wonderful day at WINGS!
The WINGS2009 website now offer you the facility to send electronic postcards complete with music to your friends in Guiding and Scouting around the world. Send one today! More postcard images will be added as the three years go by. more
You can catch up on the news through the special newsletter for the 1 August 2006 and there is also a special flyer with the satellite photo which you can download and share with your Unit or other Units in your area. You can catch up with these in the here.
There will be a lot of Scouting taking place today on 1 August 2006 - don't forget to snap those magic Scouting moments and send them in to photo@berkshirescouts.org.uk.
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