History
Burnie was formed in 1908 and has been in Burnie since 1920. The Burnie group has been at the Mooreville Road hall since 1975.
This group caters for Boys and Girls from 6-15 providing a base for the aims and principles of Scouts Australia. Entry can be at any age from their 6th Birthday upwards.
1st Burnie and 2nd Burnie amalgamated into the Burnie Scout Group in 2002.
All new members make the Joey/Cub/Scout Promise and agree to live by the Scout Law as apporiate to their age.
The founder of Scouting Lord Baden-Powell of Gilwell, was born in 1857 in England. He set down his ideas in the book 'Aids to scouting', which was used as textbook for many years.
The first scout camp: Baden-Powell was encouraged to set down his views on how he would apply Scouting to the training of boys, so he first conducted an experimental camp in 1907 on Brownsea Island off the Dorset coast. Here with some 20 boys from all walks of life and suitable leaders, Baden-Powell taught the boys what he meant by Scouting. They lived in tents and cooked their own food and learned many valuable skills though games.
Although the year 1908 marks the official beginning of the Scouting Movement, scouting really commenced with the Brownsea Island Camp in August 1907.
Wood Badge Training of Leaders commenced in 1919 at Gilwell Park England and has over the years become established as the method of Leader Training throughout the scouting world.
Today we celebrate Founders Day 22 February in memory of Lord Baden-Powell. Lord Baden-Powell was proclaimed World Chief Scout at the first Jamboree at Olympia in 1920. He was raised to the peerage in 1929, and was awarded the Order of Merit in the Coronation Orders in 1937.
He traveled widely encouraging Scouting in every country he visited. He came to Australia three times, in 1912, 1931 and 1934-35 to the first Australian Jamboree.
Meanwhile Scouting had become established as a most successful scheme for the training of boys, and in many countries including Australia, it spread rapidly because it was what boys wanted to do. He was described as The Piper of Pax, because of his tremendous contribution to boyhood and world peace.