Scouts' Day

Scouts' Day or Guides' Day is a generic

term for special days observed by
members of the Scouting movement
throughout the year. Some of these days
have religious significance, while others
may be a simple celebration of Scouting.
Typically, it is a day when all members of
Scouting will re-affirm the Scout Promise.
 Scouts' Day

Baden-Powell, the founder of the Scout Movement

Founders' Days
Worldwide in nearly all Scout associations,
Founders' Day is celebrated on 22
February, the birthday of Robert Baden-
Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell (born in
1857), the founder of Scouting, and
coincidentally also of his wife Olave
Baden-Powell (born in 1889).

Individual associations also celebrate their

own founding on other dates, although
these are generally restricted to "major"
anniversaries, such as a decennial. Girl
Scouts of the USA celebrate Founders Day
on 31 October, the birthday of Juliette
Low.

World Thinking Day

Thinking Day is celebrated on 22 February.
The World Association of Girl Guides and
Girl Scouts (WAGGGS) chose the date as it
was the birthday of Scouting and Guiding
founder Robert Baden-Powell and of Olave
Baden-Powell. It is thus celebrated by Girl
Guides and Girl Scouts associations.
SAGNOs (those associations which are
part simultaneously of WAGGGS and
WOSM) usually take part in it. It is also
celebrated by some boy-oriented scout
associations belonging to WOSM (i.e.
Greece, where it is called Imera Skepseos),

Saint George's Day

Portuguese Scout postcard casting Scout as modern-

day St. George slaying the dragon

Saint George is the patron saint of

Scouting. The nearest Sunday to 23 April
is observed as a celebration in some
countries, for example, the United
Kingdom, Portugal, Brazil and Spain. After
Founder’s Day it’s the biggest celebration
in National Scout Organization’s.

In the UK many Scouting Districts

celebrate the day with a parade of the
groups and sections to a church or other
suitable venue, often outdoors, where a
service is held where the Scout sections
all re-affirm their Scout Promises.
However, it is becoming more difficult to
encourage participation by the youth
membership, so many Districts forego the
parade and church service in place of a
more family oriented day. The focus of the
day is still the affirmation of the Promise
by all members.

Windsor and Queen Scouts Each St.

George's Day is also marked by a service
in St. George's Chapel in Windsor Castle,
which is open to all recipients of the
Queen's Scout Award in the previous year.

Scout Sunday, Scout Jumuah,

and Scout Sabbath (Boy
Scouts of America)

Scouts on Scout Sunday in Philadelphia, 1949

The Boy Scouts of America have

designated the Sunday preceding 8
February, or 8 February if it is a Sunday, as
Scout Sunday, the following Friday as
Scout Jumuah, and the following Saturday
is designated as Scout Sabbath.[1] The
United Methodist Church and the
Presbyterian Church (USA) celebrate Scout
Sunday on the second Sunday of February
as not to conflict with their Transfiguration
Sunday.

The day is meant to mark the founding of

the Scouts in the United States.
Observation varies by unit and locale.
Scouts go to their places of worship in
uniform and help with the service.

In the United States, Scouting has been

used by churches, temples, synagogues,
and many other religious organizations as
part of their youth ministries.
Approximately 50 percent of all Scouting
units are chartered to religious groups.
These observances offer an opportunity
for congregations to honor Scouts and
Scouters, as well as to learn more
themselves about the value of Scouting as
a youth program.[2]

Girl Scout Week (Girl Scouts

of the USA)
In the Girl Scouts of the USA, the
equivalent holiday is Girl Scout Sunday or
Girl Scout Sabbath, celebrated in Girl
Scout Week the week that includes 12
March, the day the first Girl Scout troop
was founded by Juliette Gordon Low in
Savannah, Georgia in 1912.[3]
Scout-Guide Week (Canada)
In Canada both the Guides and the Scouts
celebrate Scout-Guide Week which is the
week (Sunday-Sunday) in which 22
February falls (not including the first
Sunday). It is often used to have joint
events between the two groups.[4]

Africa Scout Day

Africa Scout Day is a day of celebration for
Scouts in Africa and is held annually on 13
March. At the 62nd ordinary session of the
Council of Ministers of the then OAU,
(currently African Union) in Addis Ababa in
1995, a resolution was passed that
Scouting in Africa must be recognized and
as such 13 March would be celebrated as
Africa Scout Day.[5]

World Scout Day

World Scout Day commemorates the first
Scout Camp on Brownsea Island in
1907.[6]

Scout Service and Public

Relationship Week (Sri
Lanka)
Scout Service and Public Relationship
Week is held annually on June–July.
Scouts will call on the public during this
week in uniform. The event began with the
participation of Scouts from all 37 districts
simultaneously numbering approximately
40,000 between the ages of 7 and 18. A
Patrol consisting of four Scouts or more in
uniform will carry an official card given by
Sri Lanka Scout Association for public
contributions. Scouts find money for their
Scout Group through the Service and
Relationship week each year. They go to
houses and work places and help their
owners with small work they can do.
People give them work and then give some
amount of money for their effort. The
association requests the public to
contribute to them generously as this is
the main fund raising project for them.

Dates celebrated by country

 English Location/local
Date Remarks
name name

1 January Scouts' Day Burma

Marks the founding of the Boy Scouts of America in

8 February Scouts' Day United States
1910[7]

22 Thinking worldwide
Marks shared birthday of Scouting's founders
February Day (Guides)

22 Founder's worldwide
Marks shared birthday of Scouting's founders
February Day (Scouts)

Republic of
5 March Scouts' Day China
(Taiwan)

Girl Scout Marks founding of first Girl Scout troop in the United
12 March United States
Birthday States

Social and Scouting work take place in one of the

18 April Scouts' Day Armenia
central parks of Yerevan[8]

anniversary of the first national Girl Guide conference

19 April Guides' Day Georgia
in 1997
[8]
19 April Scouts' Day Azerbaijan /regional_and_national_events_of_eurasia_region

St. George's United

23 April Parade of Queen's Scouts at Windsor Castle
Day Kingdom

Parades and recommitting to the Scout's promise[9][10]

St. George's
23 April Denmark
Day

23 April Scouts' Day Mexico

23 April Scouts' Day Brazil

St. George's Czech Celebrated on April 24 because April 23 is the feast of

24 April
Day Republic Czech national saint Adalbert of Prague

19 May Scouts' Day Croatia first training in 1950

22 May Girl Scout Japan
Day

National Scouting began in First Male' Scout Group, Majeediyya

30 May Maldives
Scout Day School

Vietnamese
31 May Scouting Vietnam
Day

Scout
late May Movement Liberia In 2009 was 25–30 May
Week[11]

Scouts pay homage to King Rama VI, and take part in

1 July Scouts' Day Thailand
parades

3 July Scouts' Day Nepal 2009 was 57th Scout Day

worldwide World Scout Day is named officially by the WOSM. And

World
1 August (Scouts & World Scout Scarf Day was not offically recongized by
Scout Day
Guides) any Scout Association.

World Day that Scouts Australia announce and celebrate

1 August Australia
Scout Day Adult Recognition Awards for the year nationwide

Pramuka Honors the national scouts of Indonesia (Pramuka)

14 August Indonesia
Day first public parade in 1961

Scout and
5 Celebrates the scout and good act day doing charity
Good Argentina
September work, donations and personal good action.
Action Day

Scouting The Boy Scouts of the Philippines was chartered by

October Philippines
Month Congress on 31 October 1936.

Girl Guides First was 6 October 1985, chosen to be near their royal
variable Brunei
Day patron's birthday[12]

See also
 Religion in Scouting
Scout Law – A Scout is reverent.
Scouting 2007 Centenary – celebrations
for 100 years of Scouting

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media

related to Scouts' Day.

"A Scout is Reverent: Scout Sunday

Religious Observances" . Retrieved
21 February 2019.
"A Scout Is Reverent: Scout Sunday
Observance" . scouting.org. Boy Scouts
of America. Retrieved 21 February 2019.
 "St George Day" .
stgeorgesdayevents.org.uk. Retrieved
21 February 2019.
"St George Day" . stgeorgesday.com.
Retrieved 21 February 2019.
"Scout Sunday in the United States" .
cimarron bsa. Retrieved 21 February
2019.

Further reading
Trefoil Round the World. World Bureau
(2002) (11 ed.). World Association of Girl
Guides and Girl Scouts. 1997. ISBN 0-
900827-75-0.

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