Scouting and Guiding in Victoria

<p><a href="/facts/Scouting/BwE4ELxX">Scouting</a> started in <a href="/facts/Victoria_(Australia)/76P2nqtz">Victoria</a>, <a href="/facts/Australia/qLHpbppq">Australia</a>, as early as 1907 and local Boy Scout patrols and troops formed independently. Several separate central organisations began operating including <a href="/facts/Boys%27_Brigade/fdv1BX8F">Boys' Brigade</a> Scouts, <a href="/facts/Church_Lads%27_Brigade/bQggoX9g">Church Lads' Brigade</a> Scouts, <a href="/facts/Chums_(paper)/vFmIzxBR">Chums</a> 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, <a href="/facts/The_Scout_Association/rjw0FYoq">The Boy Scouts Association</a>, Life-Saving Scouts of the Salvation Army and Methodist Boy Scouts.
</p><p>Current scouting organisations in Victoria include Scouts Victoria, Russian Scouts, Polish Scouting Association ZHP, Plast Ukrainian Scouts, Hungarian Scouts, Lithuanian Scouts and Estonian Scouts, the Ethnic Scouts and Guides Association of Victoria (ESGAV), Girl Guides Victoria and the <a href="/facts/Assemblies_of_God/QFDuIDBX">Assemblies of God</a> <a href="/facts/Assembly_of_God_youth_organizations/xcEwa0R9">Royal Rangers</a> and Salvation Army's Guards and Legion (SAGALA).
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Scouting and Guiding in Victoria