2008 is another Centenary year for Scouting - it's the 100th birthday of Baden-Powell's Scouting for Boys and of the birth of local Scout Troops all across the UK.
2008 is also the Centenary of Scouting right across the world - happy 100th birthday to Scouting in Australia, Canada, Ireland, Malta, New Zealand and South Africa!
So let's celebrate our grass-roots creativity this year, shall we?
The Great Big Left Handshake
Fantastic news! We have set a new Guinness World Record, with our 30,006-hand Scouting handshake! Congratulations everyone!
Click here to view a scrolling section of GBLHS
The GBLHS is the largest single piece of collaborative artwork Scouting has ever produced, anywhere in the world, ever! It's also one of the largest collages anywhere in the world, and certainly the largest in the world made out of cut-out hands!
It symbolises two important things - the international friendships made and kept through Scouting, and a generation's hopes for peace in Scouting's next century.
Want to borrow the Handshake collage?
If you want to borrow the collage (whole or part) for an event, you can. Just contact the e-mail address below.
Please think carefully about your display venue (dry and secure), the logistics of collecting and returning the sheets to and from Gilwell Park, and the transport cost. There are over 500 sheets of A1 paper in total - you need to decide how many sheets you want to borrow.
It's Big...
E-mail: artofscouting@scout.org.uk
The Art of Scouting Exhibition - Tour 2008
Latest news
'The Art of Scouting' Exhibition has now started on a pilot mini-tour, starting at Epping Forest District Museum (Waltham Abbey), from the
19 Jan - 4 March 2008. It then moves to Vestry House Museum, Walthamstow.
The Scout Association has never toured such a significant quantity of the heritage collection outside Gilwell Park!
This is a pilot project, designed to gauge public interest in Scouting and Scouting heritage from all age groups, with a view to touring this (and other) exhibitions across the UK and overseas.
The touring exhibition contains a larger number of artefacts than was previously seen at Gilwell Park during the Centenary Jamboree, and also includes items lent by local Scout Groups from their own collections.
There are interactives for all ages, including a semaphore challenge, searchable DVD and quiz trail. Museum shop contains Scouting exhibition souvenirs as well as normal stock.
Free to enter! Special evening openings for Scout groups, by arrangement.
Have a look at the Epping Forest District Museum website
