Baden-Powell Scouts
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The Baden-Powell Scouts are a youth organisation found in various countries.
The organisation shares the heritage of the Scouting youth movement, but was formed in the UK in 1970 when it was felt that the "modernisation" of the Scout movement was abandoning the traditions and intentions established by Lord Robert Baden-Powell in 1907. The Baden-Powell Scouts retain the belief that essence of the movement should be based on outdoor activities related to the skills of explorers, backwoodsmen and frontiersmen.
The national associations are generally members of the World Federation of Independent Scouts (WFIS).
United Kingdom and Ireland
The organisation retains the traditional sections of Wolf Cubs, Scouts, Senior Scouts and Rover Scouts, to which Beavers have been added in recent years for the 5 to 8 age range. In the UK and Ireland the association is open to both males and females, and in mixed and separate sections.
Canada
The Baden-Powell Scouts Association of Canada was founded in 1998 and quickly found itself in conflict with Scouts Canada over the use of the word "Scout". The association changed its name to BPSA Canada. Soon after it was founded, the BPSA Canada suffered from internal conflicts. The result is the current organizational structure in which there are autonomous provincial associations which are members of the Canadian Federation of Independent Scouting.