skeptic Posted April 7 Share Posted April 7 You cannot take Scouting out of the larger community or its issues. You can fliter that community through the tenets of Scouting to make the community hopefully better. YP or whatever the current name is, represents a positive feedback into those larger communities, and the concepts continue to evolve and get stronger, which in turn helps both the program, and those it serves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcousino Posted April 7 Share Posted April 7 4 hours ago, Eagle94-A1 said: Or professionals ignoring, shouting at, or cursing out volunteers For me it been failing to follow thier own rules. Plus the price to pay to play was very high. Cash was king in kind donations where of little value. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tron Posted April 8 Share Posted April 8 4 hours ago, jcousino said: For me it been failing to follow thier own rules. Plus the price to pay to play was very high. Cash was king in kind donations where of little value. Cash is king is absolutely true. My district has one of the most useless human beings in existance as one lf the vice chairs but he's always going to be a vice chair because of his matching cash donation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eagle94-A1 Posted April 8 Share Posted April 8 12 hours ago, Tron said: Cash is king is absolutely true. My district has one of the most useless human beings in existance as one lf the vice chairs but he's always going to be a vice chair because of his matching cash donation. Funny thing is this: if you scream and curse out that top level volunteer, he may stop donating. And he may tell his buddies what happened, and they stop giving too. That happened. District had to drop their FOS goal severely since they did this. The current goal is 10% of what is was when I first got here, and that is not adjusting for inflation. Worse part is the DC was actually doing something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InquisitiveScouter Posted April 8 Author Share Posted April 8 (edited) 24 minutes ago, Eagle94-A1 said: Funny thing is this: if you scream and curse out that top level volunteer, he may stop donating. And he may tell his buddies what happened, and they stop giving too. That happened. District had to drop their FOS goal severely since they did this. The current goal is 10% of what is was when I first got here, and that is not adjusting for inflation. Worse part is the DC was actually doing something. You'd almost think that old English dude was on to something when he said, "The one part which I can claim as mine towards promoting the movement is that I have been lucky enough to find you men and women to form a group of the right stamp who can be relied upon to carry it on to its goal. You will do well to keep yours eyes open, in your turn, for worthy successors to whom you can, with confidence, hand the torch. Don’t let it became a salaried organization: keep it a voluntary movement of patriotic service." (emphasis added) https://thescoutingpages.org.uk/bps-last-message/ Edited April 8 by InquisitiveScouter 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jameson76 Posted April 17 Share Posted April 17 As we are well into April now (quick check of the calendar). Wonder what the numbers are now? My intuition tells me that an organization based and financed by membership and units that does not in fact publicly publish the figures about member and units likely has a growth issue with member and units. Call me crazy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InquisitiveScouter Posted April 18 Author Share Posted April 18 (edited) 12 hours ago, Jameson76 said: As we are well into April now (quick check of the calendar). Wonder what the numbers are now? My intuition tells me that an organization based and financed by membership and units that does not in fact publicly publish the figures about member and units likely has a growth issue with member and units. Call me crazy I posted system numbers on 01 Apr. They have changed slightly: Total Current Youth on 01 Apr was 782,466 (this includes LFL): 18 Apr number is 792,273. ( +9807, or + 1.25%) Total Current Unit-Based Youth on 01 Apr was 749,343 (this is Crews, Posts, Ships, Troops, & Packs): 18 Apr is 756,627 (+7284, or + 0.97%) End of 2025 Total Unit-Based reported on 01 Apr was 877,399 (Total including LFL 907,946), number remains same So that means, from end of Dec 2025 to now, the total unit-based drop is 120,772 or a 13.76% loss Sorry, my 01 Apr calculation was wrong... I had subtracted current unit-based from previous total youth... should have worked with numbers in the same column. My error on 01 Apr painted a rosier picture than reality. Edited April 18 by InquisitiveScouter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PACAN Posted April 19 Share Posted April 19 My friend sent me the end of March numbers 2026. 767394 2025 949373 i don’t know if those numbers include LFL 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InquisitiveScouter Posted April 19 Author Share Posted April 19 10 minutes ago, PACAN said: My friend sent me the end of March numbers 2026. 767394 2025 949373 i don’t know if those numbers include LFL I can confirm those are numbers in the system for end of March 2025 and 2026. Those are the total unit based, and do not include LFL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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