Scouting magazine was a bi-monthly publication of The Scout Association . The magazine included information, resources and support for both young people and adults involved with The Scout Association and Scouting . From 2004, it was supplied free of direct charge to adult leaders and office holders of the association. The magazine originated in July 1909 as the Headquarters Gazette , merged with other periodical publications and had several changes of title, content, format and distribution method. The last issue was published in the autumn of 2020.
31-460: The Scout , a weekly magazine for boys, was first published by Cyril Arthur Pearson on 14 April 1908, only weeks after Scouting for Boys , the book which Robert Baden-Powell and Pearson had used to promote the Scout Movement. The editor's office of The Scout initially provided a focus for both adults and boys seeking assistance with starting and running a Scout Troop. The advice given
62-649: A baronetcy on 12 July 1916, whereupon he took the title Sir Arthur Pearson, 1st Baronet of St Dunstan's , London. He received the GBE in 1917. Pearson was a close friend of the pioneer of the Scouting movement Baden-Powell , and supportive of his efforts in setting up the movement and publishing its magazine The Scout . When Pearson's scheme for publishing in Braille was faltering due to lack of funds, on 2 May 1914 Baden-Powell publicly requested that "all Scouts perform
93-551: A newsagent . In October 2004, Scouting was relaunched in A5 size and sent free to adult leaders and officers of The Scout Association. In 2013, the magazine had an average circulation of 116,700 copies. Although plans were being developed to replace Scouting with other means of support online, this change was accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic and the last issue was published digitally and distributed by email in autumn 2020. There
124-717: A 'good turn' for The Scout magazine publisher Mr C. Arthur Pearson, in order to raise money for his scheme of publishing literature in Braille for the blind." In 1919, Pearson wrote the book Victory Over Blindness: How it Was Won by the Men of St Dunstan's . He founded the Greater London Fund for the Blind in 1921, funded by the establishment of its annual 'Geranium Day' appeal. Pearson died on 9 December 1921 when he drowned in his bath after knocking himself unconscious in
155-403: A cooperative relationship with Pearson's old employer, George Newnes Ltd , and as Pearson gradually gave up his publishing duties to due to his blindness, by 1914, Pearson had essentially become an imprint of Newnes. With Pearson's death, this arrangement was formalized, and in 1929, Newnes purchased all outstanding shares of Pearson's company. Decades after the founder's death, into the 1960s,
186-476: A cover price of 3d , which was eventually raised to 6d in 1947. Rex Hazlewood was appointed editor in 1944, a position he would hold until his retirement in 1968. Following cessation of publication of The Scout magazine in 1966, The Scouter took on some of its features and some similar content. The magazine was renamed Scouting in January 1971. Scouting was available by subscription or could be bought at
217-662: A fall. He was buried in Hampstead Cemetery after a service to which the Cabinet, the British and Norwegian royal families, and many institutes for the blind all sent official representatives. Two of his pallbearers were blind. He was survived by his wife, son and three daughters. In 1922, a biography, The Life of Sir Arthur Pearson , was written by Sidney Dark and published by Hodder & Stoughton . Pearson's publishing company, C. Arthur Pearson Ltd. , had had
248-520: A monthly publication for adult Scouters titled Headquarters Gazette . The Gazette gave Baden-Powell a direct link to the adults in Scouting that was not controlled by Pearson and he wrote a column called Outlook in almost every issue. The Gazette was renamed The Scouter in 1923. It was edited from 1911 onwards by H. Geoffrey Elwes . In January 1923, The Headquarters Gazette was renamed The Scouter . It had an initial circulation of 14,000 and
279-592: Is now a "Scout and Scouting" magazine but it is an independent publication originating from the United Kingdom. Cyril Arthur Pearson Sir Cyril Arthur Pearson, 1st Baronet , (24 February 1866 – 9 December 1921), was a British newspaper magnate and publisher, who founded the Daily Express . Pearson was born on 24 February 1866 in the village of Wookey , Somerset, a son of Arthur Cyril Pearson and Phillippa Massingberd Maxwell Lyte, who
310-461: The Bristol and Exeter Railway , is a geological Site of Special Scientific Interest . The village included a manor house built by Bishop Jocelin of Wells in the 13th century. It was rebuilt in the sixteenth century and is now a farmhouse and Grade II* listed building . The population in 1821 was 1,040, comprising 223 families, of which 147 were employed in agriculture. The National School
341-846: The MP Sir Davison Dalziel , and Sir Alexander Henderson . Beginning to lose his sight due to glaucoma despite a 1908 operation, Pearson was progressively forced from 1910 onwards to relinquish his newspaper interests; the Daily Express eventually passed, in November 1916, under the control of the Canadian–British tycoon Sir Max Aitken, later Lord Beaverbrook . Through the British and Foreign Blind Association , Pearson published his Pearson's Easy Dictionary in Braille form in 1912. Later completely blind , Pearson
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#1732797965465372-620: The Old English wocig , meaning an animal trap. An alternative explanation has been offered which suggests it comes from the Celtic word ogof meaning cave, possibly appearing also as Woky . One mile north-west of Polsham, but within the parish of Wookey, are the earthwork remains of Fenny Castle , a motte and bailey castle sited on a natural hillock. The parish was part of the hundred of Wells Forum . The now-closed Wookey Station , once lying on Cheddar Valley line branch of
403-722: The Rovers , was started in 1918. The Trail was merged with the Headquarters Gazette in 1923 and The Wolf Cub magazine later merged with The Scout . In 1934, another national magazine for Rover Scouts was launched as The Rover World , based on a successful publication for Rovers in the County of London called London Rover . It ran until October 1937, but special supplements under the same title appeared in The Scouter during 1938. In July 1909 Baden-Powell established
434-746: The Tariff Reform League in 1903, becoming its first chairman. In 1904 he purchased the struggling The Standard and its sister paper the Evening Standard for £ 700,000 from the Johnstone family. He merged the Evening Standard with his St James's Gazette and changed the Conservative stance of both papers into a pro- Liberal one, but was unsuccessful in arresting the slide in sales and in 1910 sold them to
465-506: The periodical journal Pearson's Weekly , the first issue of which sold a quarter of a million copies. A philanthropist, in 1892 he established the charitable Fresh Air Fund, still in operation and now known as Pearson's Holiday Fund, to enable disadvantaged children to partake in outdoor activities. In 1898, he purchased the Morning Herald , and in 1900 merged it into his new creation, the halfpenny Daily Express . The Express
496-686: The C. Arthur Pearson Ltd. imprint was one of London's four leading magazine publishers — along with Newnes, Odhams Press , and the Hulton Press . (By 1963, all three had become part of the International Publishing Corporation .) Wookey Wookey is a village and civil parish 2 miles (3.2 km) west of Wells , on the River Axe in Somerset , England. The parish includes the village of Henton and
527-520: The Council to order the closure of the magazine and it ceased publication with the last issue on 3 September 1966. Some regular features from The Scout transferred to The Scouter . Other, less successful magazines were also introduced by The Boy Scout Association. The Wolf Cub , aimed at 8 to 11 year-old boys in the Wolf Cubs , was launched in 1916. The Trail , for over 18 year-old participants in
558-414: The council's operating costs and producing annual accounts for public scrutiny. The parish council evaluates local planning applications and works with the local police, district council officers, and neighbourhood watch groups on matters of crime, security, and traffic. The parish council's role also includes initiating projects for the maintenance and repair of parish facilities, as well as consulting with
589-474: The creature. During this same period, Pearson was also active as a writer, and wrote a number of tourist guides to locations in Britain and Europe. Under the pseudonym of "Professor P. R. S. Foli", he wrote Handwriting as an Index to Character in 1902, as well as works on fortune-telling and dream interpretation . Pearson was a strong supporter of Joseph Chamberlain 's tariff-reform movement, and organised
620-691: The daughter of Canon Frederick Bennett, of Maddington, Wiltshire , with whom he had three daughters. In 1897, Pearson married, as his second wife, Ethel , daughter of William John Fraser. Ethel, Lady Pearson, would be appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE). The couple had a son, Neville (birth registered in Farnham, Q1 1898), and three daughters. In 1890, after six years of working for Newnes, Pearson left to form his own publishing business and within three weeks had created
651-509: The deal fell through. In 1898, Pearson founded The Royal Magazine , a monthly literary magazine which remained in publication until 1939. In 1900 Pearson despatched the explorer and adventurer Hesketh Hesketh-Prichard to Patagonia to investigate dramatic reports of a giant hairy mammal inhabiting the forests, and conjectured to be a giant ground sloth , long since extinct. Hesketh-Prichard's reports from 5,000 miles away gripped readers of The Express , despite his finding no trace of
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#1732797965465682-410: The district council on the maintenance, repair, and improvement of highways, drainage, footpaths, public transport, and street cleaning. Conservation matters (including trees and listed buildings) and environmental issues are also the responsibility of the council. For local government purposes, since 1 April 2023, the village comes under the unitary authority of Somerset Council . Prior to this, it
713-471: The nearby hamlets of Yarley and Bleadney where the River Axe travels the length of the village. There used to be a port at Bleadney on the river in the 8th century which allowed goods to be brought to within 3 miles (5 km) of Wells. Wookey is often confused with its sister village Wookey Hole (2 miles to the north), site of the Wookey Hole Caves . The name Wookey is thought to come from
744-603: Was 2,510. It is part of the Wells and Mendip Hills county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom . It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election. St Matthew's Church dates from the twelfth century and is a Grade I listed building. It was granted to the dean of Wells by Bishop Robert , rebuilt by Bishop Reginald and assigned to
775-550: Was a departure from the papers of its time and created an immediate impact by carrying news instead of only advertisements on its front page. He was successful in establishing papers in provincial locations such as the Birmingham Daily Gazette . He came into direct competition with the Daily Mail and in the resulting commercial fight almost took control of The Times , being nominated as its manager, but
806-637: Was a granddaughter of the hymn-writer and poet Henry Francis Lyte . He was educated at Winchester College in Hampshire. His father became rector of Drayton Parslow in Buckinghamshire. His first job was as a journalist working for the London-based publisher George Newnes on Tit-Bits magazine. Within his first year he had impressed Newnes enough to be made his principal assistant. In December 1887, Pearson married Isobel Sarah Bennett,
837-459: Was founded in the village in 1844 by St Matthew's Church . From October to December 1880, H. G. Wells joined the school as a pupil-teacher aged 12, following a relative who was headteacher at that time. It later became Wookey Primary School, a community primary for around 85 children aged 4 to 11 of Wookey and the surrounding area. The parish council has responsibility for local issues, including setting an annual precept (local rate) to cover
868-1022: Was made president of the National Institution for the Blind in 1914, raising its income from £8,000 to £360,000 in only eight years. On 29 January 1915, he cofounded The Blinded Soldiers and Sailors Care Committee (later renamed St Dunstan's and now known as Blind Veterans UK ), for soldiers blinded by gas attack or trauma during the First World War . Its goal, radical for the times, was to provide vocational training rather than charity for invalided servicemen, and thus to enable them to carry out independent and productive lives. Not only were blinded soldiers trained in work such as basket weaving or massage, but also in social skills such as dancing, braille reading or sports to give them back self-confidence. Upon releasing them, they were gifted little tokens of independence such as braille watches. Pearson's dedication to this work led to his receiving
899-579: Was not profitable to continue publication, so it was taken over by The Boy Scouts Association and reverted to its original title. Haydn Dimmock , who had been editor of The Scout at Pearson's since 1919, was taken onto the Headquarters staff and encouraged to develop the Scouting content. Dimmock resigned as editor in June 1954 shortly before his death and was replaced by Rex Hazlewood . Eventually, falling sales led The Boy Scouts Association's Committee of
930-530: Was part of the non-metropolitan district of Mendip , which was formed on 1 April 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972 , having previously been part of Wells Rural District . The village falls within the Wookey and St Cuthbert Out West electoral ward . The ward starts near Wells and stretches via St Cuthbert Out to Godney . The total population of this ward taken from the 2011 census
961-520: Was sometimes at variance with Baden-Powell's wishes and he was horrified at Pearson's allocation of places at "the first official Scout camp" at Humshaugh , which effectively went to the Scouts who had bought the most copies of the magazine. In August 1933, falling sales prompted a change of title to Every Boy's Weekly with a reduction of content relating directly to Scouting, in an effort to broaden its appeal. In 1939, Newnes and Pearson decided that it