The Scouting Memorial Project is a national project to raise awareness of “the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire”. It came about through a group of Explorer Scouts during a Diamond Chief Scout Award expedition, with the aim to create a Scouting memorial at the Arboretum amongst the other Youth organisations represented there.
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After the 64th Birmingham Scout Group contacted Gilwell; collaborated with their local Network members, and were hardened to the aims of the project by the injuring of a Network member during active service, everyone agreed that the Scouting Memorial Project was the right thing to do.
Currently the fundraising hit their target of £80,000 within 6 months, and they are currently £4000 short of hitting the extended target of £140,000. The money is going towards creating a detailed, interactive design for everyone to enjoy; the design being a circular campfire that also represents the ‘Gone Home’ tracking sign, and will involve an everlasting fire in the centre alongside 3 statues of young people sat around the edge, with a statue of a leader watching on. The outside of the memorial will also enclose aspects every country in the world, to show that Scouting is truly global.
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You can find out more about the Scouting Memorial Project, and how you or your young people can get involved with it, on their website at http://www.tsmp.org.uk. The Scouting Memorial Project were interviewed during the 89th Gilwell Reunion camp on the first weekend of September 2015.