Prevention is better than cure for the young unemployed – an article for The Independent
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So what should we be teaching the next generation?
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On the campaign trail
ByJohn MayToday, colleagues at the Scout Association, through a series of letters and emails sent around the globe, announced that I am to be their candidate for election to the World Scout Committee. The election is to be held in July, in South Korea. World Scouting has been living through a number of challenges in the…
Northumberland, the cradle of Scouting
ByJohn MayEveryone thinks that the first Scout camp was held on Brownsea Island. (Well, those that think about Scouting at all, I guess, think that.) But the first uniformed Scout Camp was actually held in Humshaugh in Northumberland a year later – and the Scout County is understandably very proud of the fact. It was a…
