Baden Powell Scouts

First Longridge Baden Powell Scout Group.  

From the changes that came in from the mid sixties looking at perceived challenges and threats to the role that scouting including the Wolf Cubs came from a wider variety of interests of boys and social attitudes changes started to made to the Scouting Program as well as the naming of each part of the scouting family and their uniforms.

This met with some opposition who felt  BP's vision of Scouting was being watered down leading to the formation of newer groups that kept much of what had gone before and actually in a number of areas, brand new units have been established proving popular with the people who in this difference of opinion matter - the young people - who clearly love a challenge.

The Baden Powell Scouts were the first to accept membership of Girls and also introduced a stripped down management style that today uses the internet for much of its work mixing tradition and modernity.

You can see more of that tradition when you look at the uniform and Standard and that those young people are happy to be a part of that tradition, not wishing to re-invent themselves and carry it forward.