Scouting, also known as the Scout Movement, is a worldwide youth social movement employing the Scout method, a program of informal education with an emphasis on practical outdoor activities, including camping, woodcraft, aquatics, hiking, backpacking, and sports. Another widely recognized movement characteristic is the Scout uniform, by intent hiding all differences of social standing in a country and encouraging equality, with neckerchief and campaign hat or comparable headwear. Distinctive uniform insignia include the fleur-de-lis and the trefoil, as well as merit badges and other patches.
Stone on Brownsea Island commemorating the first experimental Scout camp
A 2007 British fifty pence coin commemorating the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Scout Movement
Cairn remembering the 1908 Lookwide camp at Fourstones near Humshaugh, the first proper Scout Camp
Girl Guiding/Scouting pioneer Olave Baden-Powell
The Scout method is the informal educational system used in the Scouting Movement. The aim of Scouting is character training with the goal of helping participants become independent and helpful, and thereby become "healthy, happy, helpful citizens".
Girl Guides in the United Kingdom, 1918
British Scouts in Detroit, July 1942
Scouts doing a good deed
Baden-Powell