On 1st August 2007 Scouts of every age from around UK joined with 28 million Scouts from around the world to celebrate the dawn of a new Century of Scouting. Cornwall joined up at the Eden Project.
Exactly one hundred years ago, the sound of a kudu horn called 20 boys from a cross-section of society together to start an eight-day camp. When he was blowing the horn, Baden-Powell had no intention of starting a new movement. He simply wanted to provide a programme of activities that other existing youth organisations could use. He was testing his ideas, unsure about whether they would work or not.
The camp proved more successful than he could have imagined. From one small corner of Brownsea Island, the Scout Movement was born - instantly catching the attention of young people in the UK, and then around the world.
