Scouting

:For professional sport scouts, see Scout (sport).

Breakaway organisations

Many groups have formed since the original formation of the Scouting "Boy Patrols." Most are a result of groups or individuals who refuse to follow the original ideals of Scouting but still desire to participate in Scout-like activities.

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The first schism within Scouting occurred during November 1909, when the British Boy Scouts (later the Brotherhood of British Scouts, and known internationally as the Order of World Scouts) was formed, initially comprising an estimated 25 per cent of all Scouts in the United Kingdom, but rapidly declining from 1911 onward. The organisation was formed because of perceptions of bureaucracy and militaristic tendencies in the mainstream movement. With several smaller organisations, such as the Boy's Life Brigade Scouts they formed the National Peace Scouts federation. The British Girl Scouts were the female counterpart of the British Boy Scouts.

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1909 - United Kingdom - 1911 - Militaristic

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In 1916 a group of scoutmasters in Cambridge, led by Ernest Westlake and his son Aubrey, who believed that the movement had moved away from its early ideals and had lost its woodcraft character, founded the Order of Woodcraft Chivalry. The order survives to this day in England.

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In the years following the First World War, the Commissioner for Camping and Woodcraft John Hargrave, broke with what he considered to be the Scouts' militaristic approach and founded a breakaway organisation, the Kibbo Kift, taking a number of similar-minded scoutmasters and troops with him. This organisation was the direct antecedent of the Woodcraft Folk.

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First World War - John Hargrave - Militaristic - Kibbo Kift - Woodcraft Folk

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Baden-Powell Scouts were formed in 1970, initially in the United Kingdom but now also elsewhere, when it was felt that the "modernisation" of Scouting was abandoning the traditions and intentions established by Baden-Powell.

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Baden-Powell Scouts - 1970 - United Kingdom

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There are also some similar organisations linked to movements such as organised churches, such as Adventism's Pathfinders and the pentecostal Royal Rangers.

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Adventism - Pathfinders - Pentecostal - Royal Rangers

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Of historical importance, but now defunct, are the Young Pioneers and Hitler Youth — both created by totalitarian regimes which saw the global Scouting movement as unacceptably pro-democracy.

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Young Pioneers - Hitler Youth - Totalitarian

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