List of non-aligned Scouting organizations
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Non-aligned Scouting and Scout-like organisations
have been created over the years, separate and often distinct from the mainstream Scout Movement
served by the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts
(WAGGGS) and the World Organization of the Scout Movement
(WOSM).
* considered Scouting in most European countries
Non-aligned Scouting and Scout-like organisations
Non-aligned Scouting and Scout-like organizations are Scouting organizations that are not affiliated to the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts and the World Organization of the Scout Movement . The Scout movement has led to the formation of many Scouting organizations around the world...
have been created over the years, separate and often distinct from the mainstream Scout Movement
Scouting
Scouting, also known as the Scout Movement, is a worldwide youth movement with the stated aim of supporting young people in their physical, mental and spiritual development, that they may play constructive roles in society....
served by the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts
World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts
The World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts is a global association supporting the female-oriented and female-only Scouting organizations in 145 countries. It was established in 1928 and has its headquarters in London, England. It is the counterpart of the World Organization of the Scout...
(WAGGGS) and the World Organization of the Scout Movement
World Organization of the Scout Movement
The World Organization of the Scout Movement is the Non-governmental international organization which governs most national Scout Organizations, with 31 million members. WOSM was established in 1920, and has its headquarters at Geneva, Switzerland...
(WOSM).
International Scouting organizations (excluding WAGGGS and WOSM)
- Confédération Européenne de ScoutismeConfédération Européenne de ScoutismeKnown in English as the Confederation of European Scouts, the Confédération Européenne de Scoutisme was formed in Brussels, Belgium on November 12, 1978, and is based in Belgium. CES stresses the European dimension of their Scouting program and that CES provides the "authentic Scouting of...
- International Scout and Guide FellowshipInternational Scout and Guide FellowshipThe International Scout and Guide Fellowship is a worldwide organization of Scout alumni in support of Scouting and Guiding who want to strengthen dialogue between communities through community-oriented projects worldwide....
- Order of World ScoutsOrder of World ScoutsThe Order of World Scouts founded in 1911, was the first international Scouting organisation. It is headquartered in England, with the administration headquarters in Italy...
- Skolta Esperanto LigoSkolta Esperanto LigoThe Skolta Esperanto Ligo brings together Esperanto-speaking Scouts from all over the world.-Origin:The third universal congress of Esperanto was held in 1907 in Cambridge, England. It is probable that Lord Baden-Powell was aware of the proceedings...
- Union Internationale des Guides et Scouts d'EuropeUnion Internationale des Guides et Scouts d'EuropeThe International Union of the Guides and Scouts of Europe is a traditional faith-based Scouting organization with 20 member associations in 17 European...
- World Federation of Independent ScoutsWorld Federation of Independent ScoutsThe World Federation of Independent Scouts is the non-governmental international organization which governs 82 affiliated Scout Organizations in 41 countries, with an estimated 200,000 members in 3562 Scout Groups...
Scouting organizations
- Afghanistan Scout Association
- American Heritage GirlsAmerican Heritage GirlsThe American Heritage Girls is a Christian Scouting organization founded in 1995 by Patti Garibay and other parents from West Chester, Ohio, who were unhappy that the Girl Scouts accepted lesbians as troop leaders, allowed girls to substitute another word more applicable to their belief for "God"...
- Associação dos Escuteiros de São Tomé e Príncipe
- Association des Scouts de Djibouti
- Association des Scouts et Guides de Riaumont
- Baden-Powell ScoutsBaden-Powell ScoutsThe Baden-Powell Scouts' Association is a youth organisation found in the United Kingdom, with affiliations in various countries. Baden-Powell Scouting focuses on the importance of tradition in the Scout movement...
- Belarusian Scout AssociationBelarusian Scout AssociationThe Belarusian Scout Association is one of the nationwide Scouting organizations in Belarus. The association was founded in 1991 and liquidated in 2005 by the Supreme Court of Belarus, but still continues to operate...
- Conférence Française de ScoutismeConférence Française de ScoutismeThe Conférence Française de Scoutisme is a French Scouting federation, founded in 2000 and serving about 35,000 members of both genders...
- Corpo Nacional de Escutas da Guiné-Bissau
- Eclaireurs Neutres de FranceÉclaireurs Neutres de FranceThe Éclaireurs Neutres de France is a non-aligned French Scouting association, founded in 1947 by Marcel Lepage and serving 3,000 to 4,000 members of both genders....
- Fédération du scoutisme centrafricain
- Hashomer HatzairHashomer HatzairHashomer Hatzair is a Socialist–Zionist youth movement founded in 1913 in Galicia, Austria-Hungary, and was also the name of the group's political party in the Yishuv in the pre-1948 British Mandate of Palestine...
- HomenetmenHomenetmenHomenetmen is a pan-Armenian diaspora organization devoted to sport and Scouting. The motto of Homenetmen is "Elevate Yourself and Elevate Others with You" .-Foundation:...
- Iran Scout Organization
- Iraq Boy Scouts and Girl Guides CouncilIraq Boy Scouts and Girl Guides CouncilIraq was one of the first Arab nations to embrace the Scouting movement, launching its program in 1921, just two years after the League of Nations had created the country out of the old Ottoman Empire...
- Katholische Pfadfinderschaft Europas
- Kyrgyz Respublikasynyn Skaut Kengesh
- Kyrgyzstan Skaut-Kyzdar Assotsiatsiyasy
- National Organization of Russian Scouts
- National Scout Association of BelarusNational Scout Association of BelarusThe National Scout Association of Belarus is one of several nationwide Scouting associations in Belarus...
- National Scout Association of EritreaNational Scout Association of EritreaThe National Scout Association of Eritrea is the national Scouting organization of Eritrea. Scouting in Eritrea shares a common history with that of Ethiopia, where Scouting was founded in 1950. Scouting in Eritrea has become active again after many years of government banning, and is in its...
- Organization of Russian Young Pathfinders
- Pathfinder Scouts AssociationPathfinder Scouts AssociationThe Pathfinder Scouts Association is an independent Traditional Scouting Association in the United Kingdom. The Association runs along the lines of Baden-Powell's original programme, upholding the traditions and practice set out by him in Scouting for Boys.-1982 - 2009:The 'Explorer Scouts' and...
- Sahraoui Scout AssociationSahraoui Scout AssociationScouting exists in Western Sahara both as part of the Fédération Nationale du Scoutisme Marocain as well as independent groups.*Scouting is being developed in El Aaiún with the assistance of Scouts from the Association of Scouts of the Canary Islands.*Spanish Scouts have established contacts with...
- Scout Club of Hainan
- Scouts du Mali
- Vietnamese Scout Association-Hội Huớng Đạo
- União Nacional dos Escuteiros de Timor Leste
- Związek Harcerstwa RzeczypospolitejZwiazek Harcerstwa RzeczypospolitejZwiązek Harcerstwa Rzeczypospolitej is a Polish Scouting organization founded on February 12, 1989. At present, Związek Harcerstwa Rzeczypospolitej has over 15,000 members...
- The Scouts/Guides Organisation in India
Active
- Boys Brigade (The predecessor to the Scout Movement, created in the UK in 1883, 25 years before Baden-Powell's Scouts)
- Camp Fire USACamp Fire USACamp Fire USA, originally Camp Fire Girls of America, is a nationwide American youth organization that began in 1910. The organization has been co-ed since 1975 and welcomes youth from pre-kindergarten through age 21. Camp Fire was the first nonsectarian, multicultural organization for girls in...
(nationwide US youth organisation) - Christian Service BrigadeChristian Service BrigadeChristian Service Brigade is a non-denominational Christian organization for men and boys in the United States and Canada. Often referred to as "Brigade," it is organized according to a model historically similar to that of international Boys Brigade and Scouting organizations...
(non-denominational Christian youth organisation for boys in the USA and Canada) - Fianna ÉireannFianna ÉireannThe name Fianna Éireann , also written Fianna na hÉireann and Na Fianna Éireann , has been used by various Irish republican youth movements throughout the 20th and 21st centuries...
(name used by various Irish republican youth organisations in the past) - Hanoar HatzioniHanoar HatzioniHanoar Hatzioni is a youth movement established in 1926, with its head offices now in Israel. Its three main pillars are Judaism, Pluralism, and Zionism...
(Jewish youth organisation in several countries) - National Association of Russian ExplorersNational Association of Russian ExplorersThe National Association of Russian Explorers is a youth organization founded by former Russian Scout Pavel Nikolaevich Bogdanovich, a White emigre and veteran of the Russian Imperial army, in the late 1920s after leaving the National Organization of...
(Russian émigré youth organisation in the USA) - PathfindersPathfinders (Seventh-day Adventist)The Pathfinder Club is a worldwide program organized and directed by the Youth Department of the General Conference of the Seventh-day Adventist Church...
(Seventh-day Adventist youth organisation in several countries) * - Pioneer movementPioneer movementA pioneer movement is an organization for children operated by a communist party. Typically children enter into the organization in elementary school and continue until adolescence. The adolescents then typically joined the Young Communist League...
(Communist youth organisation in several countries) - Royal RangersRoyal RangersRoyal Rangers is a worldwide ministry of the Assemblies of God and is designed to provide youth with challenging activities while providing them with Christian instruction. Royal Rangers International is open to participation of both boys and girls, while the US only allows boy participation in...
(Pentecostalist youth organisation in several countries) * - SpiralScouts InternationalSpiralScouts InternationalSpiralScouts International is a youth organization in the United States for children of neo-pagan faiths . It was created in 1999 as a loosely organized children's program, at the Aquarian Tabernacle Church...
(neo-pagan youth organisation in the USA) - WandervogelWandervogelWandervogel is the name adopted by a popular movement of German youth groups from 1896 onward. The name can be translated as rambling, hiking or wandering bird and the ethos is to shake off the restrictions of society and get back to nature and freedom...
(old German youth movement that re-emerged after World War II after having been banned in 1935 by the Nazis) - The Woodcraft FolkThe Woodcraft FolkThe Woodcraft Folk is a UK-based educational movement for children and young people, and registered charity no. 1073665. The constitutional object of this youth organisation is "to educate and empower young people to be able to participate actively in society, improving their lives and others'...
(Modern version of British Kibbo Kift)
Inactive
- Kibbo KiftKibbo KiftThe Kindred of the Kibbo Kift was a youth organisation in England from 1920 to 1951.-Origins:The organisation was founded by the charismatic Englishman John Hargrave , artist, author and Boy Scout Commissioner for Woodcraft and Camping, who had become disenchanted with the increasingly militaristic...
(British anti-war and anti-capitalistic youth organisation between 1920 and 1951) - TUXISTUXISTUXIS was a boys’ program similar to the Scouting movement promoted by Canadian Protestant churches. There are a number of variations of what the acronym "TUXIS" is said to stand for...
(Canadian Protestant youth organisation between the 1920s and the 1970s) - Hitler-JugendHitler YouthThe Hitler Youth was a paramilitary organization of the Nazi Party. It existed from 1922 to 1945. The HJ was the second oldest paramilitary Nazi group, founded one year after its adult counterpart, the Sturmabteilung...
(German Nazi youth organisation that existed from 1922 to 1945) - Young Pioneer organization of the Soviet UnionYoung Pioneer organization of the Soviet UnionThe Young Pioneer Organization of the Soviet Union, also Vladimir Lenin All-Union Pioneer Organization The Young Pioneer Organization of the Soviet Union, also Vladimir Lenin All-Union Pioneer Organization The Young Pioneer Organization of the Soviet Union, also Vladimir Lenin All-Union Pioneer...
(the largest youth organisation in the Soviet Union between 1922 and 1991)
See also
- Scouts-in-ExileScouts-in-ExileScouts-in-Exteris, also referred to as Scouts-in-Exile, are Scouting and Guiding groups formed outside of their native country as a result of war and changes in governments...
- Traditional ScoutingTraditional ScoutingThe Traditional Scouting movement refers to a back to basics effort that returns Scouting to a scheme intentionally based on Baden-Powell's own model of Scouting; rejecting the world-wide trend to "modernize" Scouting in order to appeal to more youths. This movement is very popular in Canada and...
- List of World Organization of the Scout Movement members