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19-793: Outdoor Service Guides (OSG) (formerly known as the Baden-Powell Service Association (BPSA)) is an inclusive, co-ed scouting organization in the United States. OSG accepts scouts without regard to gender, gender identity, race, sexual orientation, economic circumstances, religion (or no religion), or other differentiating factors. OSG seeks to welcome communities who have been traditionally underserved by Scouting, including LGBTQIA+, BIPOC and females. Outdoor Service Guides formed under its original name with an adult-only component, Rovers , in 2006. Youth sections were introduced in 2008 by David Atchley, an Eagle Scout in

38-806: A National Moot every year over the Easter holiday weekend where international participants are always openly welcomed. Rovers continued among the troops during the Second World War, even in Prisoner of War (POW) camps. Some artifacts of the Rover Crew at Changi (Singapore), including the crew flag, have been preserved; they are now held by the Scout Heritage Centre of Scouts Australia in Victoria, Australia . Additionally there

57-598: A group in Portland, Oregon with 80 members and 30 registered leaders was founded that same month. In 2014, after a Seattle , Washington United Methodist Church’s Boy Scout troop charter was revoked for having a gay leader, the troop moved to join BPSA. As of February 2020, BPSA had 70 operating groups and a membership of approximately 2,500 scouts. This was an increase from 1,600 in April 2016. On June 28, 2020, BPSA held

76-490: A large meeting of invested members and leaders, and concluded that the organization needed a change of name to distance itself from the imperialism and cultural superiority perceived in Baden-Powell's legacy. A new name (Outdoor Service Guides or OSG) was chosen and announced officially announced on May 29, 2021. Outdoor Service Guides is part of the world-wide Traditional Scouting movement designed to return Scouting to

95-755: Is an ornate investiture certificate from the Changi Rover Crew in the Changi exhibit in the Australian War Memorial in Canberra. In his 1922 book, Rovering to Success , Baden-Powell wrote that Rovers "are in point of fact a senior branch of the Boy Scout Movement—young men of over seventeen years of age", "In order to be admitted to a Rover Crew you must be 17, but preferably 18, years of age...." and that Rover training "gives

114-574: The Baden-Powell Service Association (United States) , all adult members are classed as Rovers. A Baden-Powell Award still forms the Rover award scheme in associations in several countries including Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, India, Pakistan, Hong Kong and Singapore and for several of the traditional Scouting associations that retained Rovers. Senior Scouts The Senior Scout section follows on from

133-569: The Boy Scouts of America , who had been asked to leave his local Greater St. Louis Area Council after attempting to create a non-discrimination policy for his Cub Scout pack. Atchley became commissioner of BPSA the following year. By 2011, the association had a handful of units. BPSA reincorporated in 2012 and added 35 more groups between 2011 and July 2013. In January 2013, a chapter was founded in Brooklyn , New York with 45 members, while

152-706: The Scout Association. Today, the Rover section remains an important programme of Scouting organizations in many European countries, in most member countries of the Commonwealth of Nations (e.g., Canada , Australia , New Zealand , South Africa , India , Malaysia, Singapore and Hong Kong), across Central and South America , the Middle East and in many other countries such as Ireland , Japan , Republic of China / Taiwan , Indonesia , Thailand and Korea . New Zealand Rovers , in particular, hold

171-593: The Scout section, and is in turn followed by Rover Scouts . The Senior Scout section was first suggested by Baden-Powell in 1917, but it was soon replaced by Rover Scouts, before being restored as a section in the Boy Scouts Association in 1946. In 1967, The Scout Association 's Advance Party Report replaced Rover Scouts and Senior Scouts with the Venture Scout section. This was one of

190-667: The United Kingdom in 1918 to provide a programme for young men who had grown up beyond the age range of the Boy Scouts. It was adopted by many other Scouting organisations. A group of Rovers is called a 'Rover Crew'. Many Scouting organisations, including, since 1966, The Scout Association in the UK, no longer include a Rover programme and some have replaced it with other programmes with modified Baden-Powell Award schemes. Others, mostly Traditional Scouting organisations, maintain

209-424: The basic principles laid out by Baden-Powell in 1907. OSG Otters and Timberwolves use a two finger salute same as Cub Scouts . An OSG scout group is composed of up to five sections as follows: Each section is led by a section leader and assistant section leaders (who are also Rover scouts themselves), and the group is led by a Group Scoutmaster (also a Rover) and supported by an Auxiliary Committee, which assists

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228-531: The factors that led to the formation of the Baden-Powell Scouts' Association. The Senior Scout section uses the same Promise as other Scout sections of the Baden-Powell Scouts' Association. The motto of the Senior Scout section is Look Wide . The Senior Scout uniform is the same as other Scout Sections, although a maroon beret and shoulder tabs are worn. The Senior Scout awards include

247-557: The group in matters of finance, registrations, acquiring equipment, finding community-service opportunities, publicity, and so on. OSG's highest award for Pathfinders is the Polaris Scout Award. The highest award for Rovers is the Baden-Powell Award . Rover Scout Rovers or Rovering is a programme associated with some Scout organizations for adults, originated by The Boy Scouts Association in

266-412: The older boy an aim for remaining under helpful influences at the difficult time of his life when he is just entering on manhood." Baden-Powell repeatedly referred to Rovers as "young men". The 1938 edition of PO&R in the United Kingdom states that "Rover Scouting covers the period during which the young man is 'finding himself,' i.e., developing his character and his powers by training them...." While

285-400: The original programme and Baden-Powell Award . Robert Baden-Powell 's handbook for Rovers was titled Rovering to Success and, throughout his book and mostly elsewhere, he referred to "Rovers" and "Rovering", not 'Rover Scouts'. The Rover programme had its origins in two different schemes. The first, aimed at Boy Scouts in the United Kingdom who were aged between 15 and 18 years old,

304-834: The programme was clearly aimed at young men, an upper age was not specified. Today in most Scouting organizations that operate a Rover programme, Rovers starts in the late teens and has an age limit in the mid-20s (see Age groups in Scouting and Guiding ). For major international events like the World Scout Moot , participants typically must be 18–25 years old at the time of the event. In some Scouting organizations, particularly Traditional Scouting associations, Rovering has no upper age limit. Rover may remain Rovers at any age and in some cases adults of any age may join Rovering. In

323-606: Was called "Senior Scouts" which was launched in March 1917 during World War I . It quickly became apparent that there weren't enough adult male leaders available in wartime, and it was several decades before the Senior Scout programme was established. The second scheme was the series of 'Battlefield Scout Huts' provided for the recreation of British and Empire soldiers in rear areas of the Western Front . Related to these

342-762: Was issued in September 1918, and the scheme was fully established by November 1919. Baden-Powell set about writing a handbook for the new scheme, which was published in 1922 as Rovering to Success . It contained Baden-Powell's philosophy for a happy adult life as well as ideas for activities that Rovers could organise for themselves. It was translated into many other languages and still remains in print in English today, as well as being available in online versions. Rovering spread to many other countries following its inception in Britain in 1918, although it no longer exists in

361-711: Was the St George's Scout Club for servicemen, which operated in the English garrison town of Colchester under the leadership of "Uncle" H. Geoffrey Elwes . From these projects, it became apparent that there was a need for a Scouting-related programme that catered for young men, many of whom would shortly be returning from the war. The first mention of the term "Rover" was by Sir Robert Baden-Powell in The Boy Scouts Headquarters Gazette in August 1918. The booklet " Rules for Rover Scouts "

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