Scouting Sunrise ceremony on Broadwater Green

    This summer the Scouting Movement reached its 100-year milestone. The changes in the world since the early 20th Century have been monumental. Two World Wars have come and gone and a technology revolution has changed the way we live. Yet the Scouting phenomenon has endured to spread world-wide.

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    This August World Scouting celebrated the Centenary by sending two Scouts from every country to Brownsea Island, the site of the very first Scout Camp. At 8 a.m. on 1st August 1907, Robert Baden-Powell, Scouting’s founder, blew a blast on a Kudu horn to signal the opening of the world’s first Camp. A re-enactment was staged this summer, exactly 100 years later, in a Sunrise Centenary Celebration. Advances in technology meant that the event could be simultaneously relayed from Brownsea Island to the World Jamboree at Hylands Park, Chelmsford, and to the other venues needed to accommodate the vast numbers camping, and also via the Internet to Scouts around the world. At precisely 8 a.m. U.K. time Scouts in all the 216 countries and territories joined together to renew their Promise, the original promise formulated by Baden-Powell.


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    The Worthing District organised celebrations here on Broadwater Green and the 10th Worthing Group was well represented among the 300 Scouters taking part. The day began with breakfast served outdoors in the Scouting tradition and 100 balloons were released into the air, one for each year since the Movement was founded.