3rd Whitton Scout Group. Scout Association registration 19169. Registered Charity
No. 1122512
Robert Baden-Powell undertook his first experimental camp at Brownsea Island over
the period 31 July to 9 August 1907. During that year, and into 1908, Baden-Powell
was formulating the text Scouting for Boys which was published as a serial in 6 fortnightly
parts (4d each) from 15 January 1908. The text was printed as a single edition later
that year. When Robert Baden-Powell took the group of 20 boys to camp to try out
the “Scouting Method”, he probably couldn’t imagine that 100 years later the World
Organisation for the Scout Movement (WOSM) would count 28 million members in 155
countries.
3rd Whitton Scout Group, located in the north-western corner of the London Borough
of Richmond upon Thames, comprises two distinctive traditions - St Edmunds, founded
by parishioners of St Edmund of Canterbury RC Church in Whitton and Ibn Battuta which
was established more recently to serve the particular needs of Islamic and Muslim
traditions. We think that this blend gives us a unique identity in Scouting .
3rd Whitton Scouts and leaders on way to the Richmond District International Camp
in Denmark and Sweden - July 2011
3rd Whitton “Promise in the Park” - May 2011