World Scout Bureau

  • A tribute to Luc

    ByJohn May

    On Friday 15th August 2014, at the World Scout Conference, I was honoured to be able to make a speech in tribute to Luc Panissod, the former Secretary General of WOSM. I spoke in English and French, so include both versions below… I am not quite sure when I first met Luc Panissod. He is…

  • It’s snowing…

    ByJohn May

    I see that there has been a ‘severe weather warning’ in Britain over the weekend, because it has snowed and there has been as much as two inches of the white and powdery stuff in places. Ha! That’s nothing, compared with the Haute Savoie on the border between France and Switzerland just outside Geneva. I…