The new badges follow a 10-month consultation with the association's 12,000 scouts. Nine of the new badges are aimed at the Beaver Scouts - aged from six to eight years old - and cover camp craft ...

The Scout Association faced a backlash last night after it introduced a ‘trans fun badge’ for members as young as four. Youngsters were also offered a ‘bisexual fun badge’, a ‘lesbian ...

Girl Scouts from tiny Daisies to teen Ambassadors may earn 23 new badges focused on science, technology, engineering and math. It’s the largest addition of new badges in a decade for Girl Sco… ...

Alongside cooking and camping, Girl Scouts will soon be able to earn a cybersecurity badge. The organization announced this week the first of 18 new badges debuting in the fall of 2018.

The scouts, which are 1.8 million strong in the U.S., has offered such opportunities in the past but consider the new badges and related programming a major push.

The instructions from the new, soon-to-be-released manual for the chemistry merit badge say the indicator can be made by ...

The Scout Association said 40 new badges marked the largest ever overhaul of the activities of the movement. Chief Scout Peter Duncan said: "Young people today have a larger choice than ever before of ...

Seven members of a Salisbury Scout group have earned new badges after completing emergency first aid training. The Scouts from the 4th Salisbury (Harnham) Scout Group finished their Emergency Aid ...