phips

Welcome and enjoy your involvement in Scouting. Have you been a Scout in your youth, too?

Dear friends, brother and sisters in Scouting, I send you all many Scout Greetings on Thinking Day and Founders Day 2010 And Happy Birthday to all Scout and Guide Organizations, which celebrate their 100th birthdays like the Boy Scouts of America and Girl Guiding UK. Best wishes and Happy Scouting phips

Welcome.

The campaign hat and the neckerchief are relevant as a symbols of Scouting. The campaign hat protects you from rain and sun and looks realy Scout Style. We also brand our hats at camps. Also many Scouts from the 40ties and 50ties in our region still own their campaign hats and neckerchiefs from their youth. That shows the value of this items to the individual Scout. Some of them had a BSA campaign hat in there youth and other hats came from the Swiss Scouts. The first hats of our Scout group after WWII also came from Switzerland.(This message has been edited by phips)(Thi

We also have many adult volunteers, nearly all of my Rover Crew, in which I was in as a youth. Our adults have their own programme at camp or help where they are needed. During the year our adults help with fundraising i.e. in organising our Scout Ball with sevearl hundred guests (Scouts from Austria and Germany, parents, mayor,people from our village) work on our Scout groups magazine, research the history of our unit, look after our tools or camping materials,... Our adult group meets every week like Cubs, Scouts and Rovers and have its own programme. Nearly all adults i

In our Scout group nearly all Boy and Girl Scouts, Rovers and Leaders wear the campaign hat. Rovers and Leaders also can wear a blue beret.

I know and enjoy to be part of this worldwide brotherhood.

Welcome to the Forum and welcome back in Scouting.

Interesting. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks for the warm welcome.

Welcome, Scout Greetings from Austria to our neighbours in the Alps. Yours in Scouting phips

No I am an Austrian Boy Scout. My associations are Pfadfinder und Pfadfinderinnen sterreichs (WOSM, WAGGGS) and Pfadfinder-Gilde sterreichs (ISGF). The Pfadfinder-Gilde sterreichs is our National Scout Guild/Fellowship, for adults in Scouting and Guiding and friends of Scouting and Guiding. No Ive never been to Kandersteg. But I plan to go there. It is on my list of places Ive to visit.(This message has been edited by phips)

Danke.

Thanks for posting that link.

Happy birthday from Austria

Ok. Is there anyone who will take part in our Austrian Jubilee Jamboree? Are there other Scouters or Scouts from German-speaking countries(also from TAC)? @Nike: Where you from in Germany?

Hello CA_Scouter, http://www.ur-sprung.at/ is the website of the Austrian Jubilee Jamboree 2010 in Laxenburg, near Vienna. This camp will be hosted by the regional divisions Vienna and Lower Austria. It will be an International Scout and Guide Camp in the park of Castle Laxenburg. I know several guys from the Public Relations team. Among the participants will be also troops of the BSA. I will work as a staff in the Scout Museum on this camp. http://www.pfadfinder-wattens.at.tt/ this is the website of our Scout group. Where did you upload the photos of your troop?

Hello, Thanks for the warm welcome. I am from Tyrol, near to Innsbruck. We have only one National Scout and Guide Organisation in Austria, which is member of WOSM and WAGGGS, and which is coed. There are single gender troops, packs and also Scout groups in our association. But in our group like in most local Scout groups, the group is coed. When I was a Cub and a Boy Scout, we had a pack for Cubs and one for Brownies and a troop for boys and a troop for girls. Now we have a coed pack, troop and Rover Crew. But the sixes/dens and patrols are only for boys or girls. B

Hello, I am a Assistant Scoutmaster from Austria. I am Scout since 1992. I took part in the 19th, 20th and 21st World Scout Jamboree. I further more took part in International Scout Camps in Austria, Germany and Liechtenstein. Greetings to all brother and sisters in Scouting!