Scouting and Guiding in Victoria
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| Headquarters | 152 Forster Rd, Glen Waverley | ||
| Country | Australia | ||
| Founded | 1923 | ||
| Founder | The Boy Scouts Association of the United Kingdom | ||
| Membership | 19,840 (30 June 2012) |
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| Chief Scout | Shane Jacobson | ||
| Chief Commissioner | Brendan Watson OAM | ||
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Website www.vicscouts.com.au |
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| Owner | Scouts Australia — Victoria Branch | ||
| Location | Gembrook, Victoria | ||
| Country | Australia | ||
| Founded | 1926 | ||
| Founder | Russell & Hoadley | ||
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Scouting started in Victoria, a State of Australia, as early as 1907.
In the early years of Scouting in Victoria, local boy scout patrols and troops formed independently and there were several separate central organisations including Boys Brigade Scouts, Church Lads Brigade Scouts, Chums Scouts, Imperial Boy Scouts, Girl Peace Scouts, Imperial Boy Scouts Victoria Section, Imperial Boy Scouts Victorian Section, Gippsland Boy Scouts Association, Australian Boy Scouts, Australian Imperial Boy Scouts, The Boy Scouts Association, Life-Saving Scouts of the Salvation Army and Methodist Boy Scouts.
"The cradle of Scouting in Victoria was the Tooronga Rd. State School, Caulfield; where in late 1907 one of the pupils, Roy McIndoe, received from a friend in England, who had been a member of the experimental camp at Brownsea Island, some pamphlets which had been issued by the Chief. These he showed to his mates who immediately got red shirts, their father's old felt hats, formed 'patrols' and 'whooped round the place like Red Indians'. Later in 1908 when they received the first copies of Scouting for Boys, they settled down to genuine Scouting."
It is unclear which was the first Scout Troop in Victoria, but by the end of 1908, there were 11 Scout Troops in Victoria.
In the early years, a number of Scout organisations existed in Victoria (see Scouting and Guiding in Australia).
Scouts Australia Victorian Branch (formally The Scout Association of Australia Victorian Branch) is a branch of Scouts Australia that delivers Scouts Australia's programs in Victoria for children and youths from the ages of 6 to 26.
In 1923, The Boy Scouts Association of the United Kingdom formed a branch in Victoria which was incorporated in 1932 and, upon the formation of The Scout Association of Australia in 1958, became its Victorian branch.
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