First Buddhist Scout group in UK launches in Manchester

Chief Scout Bear Grylls welcomes group to world’s largest youth movement as he seeks to spread adventure and skills to all young people

When Robert Baden-Powell, a lieutenant general in the British army, first published Scouting for Boys – the text that was to kickstart the scouting movement in 1908 – he cannot have foreseen what it would become.

The Scouts is now the world’s largest youth movement, with 40 million members across most countries. The Scout Association in the UK, which has been co-educational at all levels since 1991, has 618,000 members, with the family set to become even bigger and more diverse.

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