Scouting grew into an international movement within the first year of its existence. International Scouting organizations have grown up to facilitate and support the international aspect of the movement.
This category includes those various supporting organizations that assist in the provision of scouting programs on a worldwide basis as well as individual scouting, guiding or girl scouting groups or sections, and their senior councils.
In 1938 Winston S. Churchill made this tribute to BP and the Scouting Movement:
In this uncertain world one cannot be sure of much. But it seems probable that one or two hundred years hence, or it may be more, this monument that we have seen set up in our lifetime will still proclaim the fame of its founder, not in the silent testimony of bronze or stone, but as an institution guiding and shaping the lives and thoughts of men.
National Scouting Organizations and sub units of listed Associations are to be submitted under the appropriate association sub-category while those relating to Associations that are not listed as sub-categories are to be listed under Country Name
General scouting sites for a particular country are to be listed under Regional by Geographic Designation or Country.
NOTE
Please follow the guidelines set out below for placement of your group or council site.
Section, Group, and Council Web Sites
Only scouting, girl scouting, and guiding groups that belong to an association listed as a directory sub-category are to be submitted here.
For the Scouting associations listed here, please suggest your site under the sub-category name of the Association to which your group belongs. Please read the Submission Notice for your Association's sub-category for details on submitting a council, group or section site.
ALL OTHER GROUPS
If your scouting, girl scouting, or guiding association is not listed as a sub-category of Organizations please suggest the site under the appropriate Country sub-category in Organizations
If the country name does not appear as a sub-category of Organizations then submit to Regional under the appropriate country or regional sub-category.
All sites suggested must be in English or have English pages or significant English content. Sites in other languages should be submitted to World under the appropriate language category. There are Scouting categories for each of the languages listed in the "This Category in Other Languages" notice of Scouting. The editors may consider making an exception for the official national site of a scouting association for which no scouting category or language category yet exists for a particular language.
Scouting and Guiding groups and organizations in Belgium.
Sites must be in the English language or have significant English content.
Nederlands language sites should be entered under Scouting België
Sites en français listed under Scoutisme Belgique.
Scouting organizations and groups in Denmark.
Sites must be in English, have English pages or significant English Content.
Please suggest to the World category for sites in the Danish language. Sites with mixed English/Danish content may be suggested to both this and the Danish category.
Scouting and Guiding organizations in Finland.
Sites must be in the English language or have significant English content. Suggest Finnish Language sites to the appropriate World/Suomi category.
Scouting organizations in France.
Sites that deal with the national organization of the Guide Association, with UK guiding and scouting in general and UK Guiding web sites that do not fit under any of the topical categories should be listed at:
Recreation/Scouting/Regional/Europe/United_Kingdom
The Girl Guides of South Africa (GGSA). Includes groups and councils belonging to the organization.
Sub-categories include:
Councils
Districts
Service Units
Troops Daisy
Troops Brownie
Troops Junior
Troops Cadet and Senior
Troops Multi Level
If you can not decide which sub-category your submission belongs to please feel free to submit to this category and our editors will be happy to make that choice for you.
Scouting organizations in Ireland.
Suggest sites of organizations that do not have their own category.
Northern Ireland groups and units are listed under the United Kingdom Scout Association.
Scouting organizations and groups on the Isle of Man.
Scout groups and organizations in Italy.
Sites must be in English or have significant English content.
Scouting Sites in Italiano should be suggested to Scoutismo
Scouting and Guiding organizations based in Malta.
Scouting organizations and groups in the Netherlands.
Sites should be in English or have significant English content. Sites in the Dutch (Nederlands) language should be suggested to Nederland Scouting.
Scouting and Guiding organizations and groups in Norway.
Scouting and guiding organizations in Poland.
Sites must be in the English language or have significant English content. Sites in the Polish language are listed under Harcerstwo.
Councils and Groups belonging FISA. FISA is the WOSM member organization for Ireland.
As of January 1, 2004 the Catholic Scouting Ireland and Scout Association of Ireland have amalgamated under the name Scouting Ireland.
Scouting organizations and groups in Greece.
Suggest sites of Greek Scout organizations in English or with significant English content (sites in Greek language are listed under the World/ category.
Councils and Groups of Scouts South Africa, the country's scout association.
Category containing the sites of the Scout Association of Trinidad and Tobago, a WOSM member association.