Last year, I sat down for a coffee and a chat with an old friend who is a senior Scouting volunteer in a country in…
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I’ve been lucky enough to meet some very, very successful people over the last few years; not just business people, but adventurers, philanthropists and sporting…
Leave a CommentMany people contacted me after I wrote about the extraordinary Masixole Mkrakra, the young man from a rural township in South Africa, who discovered a passion…
Leave a CommentThe UK Scouts have launched an historic consultation. Amongst other things they are considering whether or not to introduce a version of the Scout…
14 CommentsRobertson Davies, one of Canada’s best known novelists, once commented about his homeland: “Some countries you love. Some countries you hate. Canada is a country…
2 CommentsAt yesterday’s UK Scout Annual General Meeting, Fi Durrant, a young(ish!) Leader, presented a reflection before the main business of the meeting. It was brilliant.…
Leave a CommentI was listening to the always wonderful Simon Mayo’s BBC Radio 2 podcast this morning on my way to work. He was talking to the…
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