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The voice of young people
ByJohn MayAt 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. And it’s worth reading… http://fidurrant.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/the-scout-association-reflection-for-agm.html
GCSE Results Day – the culmination of a “broad, deep and balanced education”?
ByJohn MayThey sharpened their pencils when they were 7. They sucked on the ends of their Berol handwriting pens in the summer of their last year of primary school. Today, thousands of sixteen-year-olds in England are getting the results to their GCSEs. If you know someone who’s going to be making that trip to school to…
Youth to Everest – a note to my fellow adventurers…
ByJohn MayDear all I’m sitting at the airport in Kathmandu, waiting for my plane to Delhi, so I thought I’d drop you a quick note. Thank you for including me in your amazing group for the last 14 days. It’s been an honour and a privilege for this old codger to spend time with such…
Girls in Scouting
ByJohn MayFor the second time in a week, the UK Scouts have made the news. Last week, they announced the publication of new (and excellent, in my opinion) sexual health materials. Today, they have let the world know that, for the first time in the Movement’s history, more girls have joined in the last year than…
On LGBTQI+ Scouting…
ByJohn MayI no longer actively work with a Section, I do other things as a Scout volunteer, but I was a leader in UK Scouting throughout the 80s and 90s, when being gay in Scouting wasn’t something you admitted to. Indeed, the institutional homophobia at the time was palpable. Since then, things have changed for LGBTQI+…
The unique nature of Scouting
ByJohn MayThe unique nature of Scouting – an article for local publicationDeveloping Scouting – Gilwell Reunion 2001
