18 Nov 2011
Chairman letter 2011.11
Dear friends, Now looking ahead, our Friends in Finland are inviting FOSE members and those wishing to become one - to a special gathering during the upcoming Roverway on the Evo Campsite near Hämeenlinna, on Friday, 27 July 2012, at 14:00. No doubt, this meeting will present yet another wonderful opportunity to experience the...
Read more18 Nov 2011
14th Annual Gathering
The 14th Annual Gathering of the Friends of Scouting in Europe will take place between the 11th and the 14th of October 2012 in Sarajevo (Bosnia-Herzegovina). More details and an official invitation will be posted on the webiste in late spring next year.
Read more18 Nov 2011
Report 13th Annual Gathering
The 13th Annual Gathering of the Friends of Scouting in Europe took place from the 6th to the 9th of Octobt in the city of Tallin (Estonia). It was a great success, as always, and an unforgettable experience for all those involved. More information and a report will be added soon to the site....
Read more05 Sep 2011
Chairman letter 2011.08
Geneva, 21st of August 2011 Dear Friends, This day – back in 1974 – our European Scout Foundation was born and I take this opportunity to wish us all a “HAPPY BIRTHDAY”! During the World Scout Jamboree in Sweden we had, on August 3rd, a most successful Friends of Scouting...
Read more16 Jun 2011
Chairman letter 2011.06
Lenzburg, June 15, 2011 Dear Friends, As you will note from the enclosure, Helene and René Karla are just back from a “study visit” to Estonia, the venue of our 2011 Friends of Scouting in Europe gathering. Please have a close look at this interesting long weekend in Estonia, where you...
Read more16 Jun 2011
Chairman letter 2011.02
Lenzburg, 7 February 2011 Dear Friends, On the occasion of the recent World Scout Conference in Brazil, more than 50 Friends of Scouting in Europe (FOSE) met for a special reception to renew friendship and to get to know each other better. In his address to the Friends, Craig Turpie, Chairman...
Read more15 Jun 2011
13th Annual Gathering
Invitation to the 13th Annual Gathering of the Friends of Scouting in Europe Tallinn, Estonia, 6 – 9 October 2011 The 13th annual gathering of the Friends of Scouting in Europe will this year take place on the Baltic Sea, in Tallinn, the capital of Estonia. There are many good reasons why Tallinn has been named "cultural capital of Europe 2011" –...
Read more14 Dec 2010
Chairman letter 2010.12
Geneva, December 15, 2010 Dear fellow Friend of Scouting in Europe, Over the last weekend the Board of the European Scout Foundation met in Geneva, and accepted the annual accounts for the year 1/10 2009 – 30/9 2010. The approved accounts will now be forwarded to the Swiss authorities, as we...
Read more01 Dec 2009
Letter from the ESC Chairman
Dear Friends Once again, regretfully, I'm unable to be with you this year for the FOSE gathering. Scouting commitments require me to be in Brussels this weekend for an important meeting of the Steering Group of the European Scout Committee. Despite not being able to be with you in person,...
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- EE - New role
- CZ - Scout Centre
- HU - Rope equipment
- HU - Hungary-Turkish Friendship Camp
- HU - Do it yourself!
- SER - Cleaning the Canal
- HU - PL-HU Cooperation
- FYROM - Mountain Partners
- HU - Equipment development for mountaineer Scouts
- RO - Nocrich
- FYROM - Training for Scout Patrol Leaders
- FYROM - A Window to Scouting
- FYROM - Urban Camp
- FYROM - River Scouting is back
- FYROM - Scouting for All
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Name of the project: | Project Jihomoravská Žirafa 2012 (Project South Moravian Giraffe 2012) |
| ID | CZ 2/11 | |
| Association: | Junák – Association of Scouts and Guides of the Czech Republic | |
| Contact: | Kamila Dufková | |
| Support
needed: |
€ 950 | |
| Short description: | Young volunteers (older than 14 years old) who work with children in the South Moravian Region scout units are the target group for the project Žirafa. Their work consists of the regular activities of leading patrols which include: preparing trips and regular programs for children of all age groups, pedagogical and educational activities etc. Usually, these patrol leaders already have some experience. They have gone through basic scout educational courses. However, missing part was a space for their improvement, self-development and sharing their experience. |
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Name of the project: | Former Scouts reunion |
| ID | EE 2/11 | |
| Association: | Estonian Scout Association | |
| Contact: | Aune Suve | |
| Support
needed: |
€ 1'875 | |
| Short description: | The objective is to bring people, who have been scouts before, back to Scouting. The former Scouts return to Scouting and strat new troops and, by that, also show thier own children the joy of Scouting. |
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Name of the project: | Scouting as an opportunity - take a new role! |
| ID | EE 1/11 | |
| Association: | Estonian Scout Association, Vana-Harju District | |
| Contact: | Aat Sarv | |
| Support
needed: |
€ 2'825 | |
| Short description: | There are two main events planned: 2-days practical "get together" outdoor activity and 2-days theoretical "Welcome (back) to Scouting" course. The training materials for this course will be worked out together with the NSO and may be suitable for other districts and Scout troops as well. |
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Name of the project: | Environmentally-friendly facilities in “Junák” Scout Centre in Krkonoše Mountains |
| ID | CZ 1/11 | |
| Association: | Junák – Association of Scouts and Guides of the Czech Republic | |
| Contact: | Eugenie Hančarová | |
| Support
needed: |
€ 2'500 | |
| Short description: | Building an environmentally-friendly system for waste water drainage in a Scout Centre – a mountain house “Junák” to be suitable for a natural area of Krkonoše Mountains. |
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Name of the project: | Rope Equipment for Rock Climbing and Outdoor Activities |
| ID | HU 5/11 | |
| Association: | Hungarian Scout Association | |
| Contact: | Dorina Beberika | |
| Support
needed: |
€ 1'350 | |
| Short description: | The equipment is needed for a number of new programs that we plan to organise for the entire group (approx. 60 people). |
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Name of the project: | Turkish-Hungarian Friendship Scout Meeting 2011 |
| ID | HU 4/11 | |
| Association: | Hungarian Scout Association | |
| Contact: | Tóth György | |
| Support
needed: |
€ 1'770 | |
| Short description: | In 2010 the city of Pécs, hand-in-hand with Istambul, was a Cultural Capital of Europe. It gave a good possibility to deepen the Hungarian-Turkish Friendship on the field of Culture. Many people do not know that the significant portion of Hungary was a part of Turkish Empire between 1541 and 1699. Hungarian people lived together with Turkish for 150 years, changing culture, language and habits with each other. |
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Name of the project: | Do it yourself! |
| ID | HU 3/11 | |
| Association: | Hungarian Scout Association | |
| Contact: | Bianka Varadi | |
| Support
needed: |
€ 1'200 | |
| Short description: | For 5 of the scout camp's patrols ( 32 heads) we would like to insure the patrol tool kit in the summer camp, that the field works (for example cleaning of tent place, digging, building of a table, benches, a kitchen) at what let them be smoother. Every patrol would have an own ‘patrol tool crate’ where the new tools would be stored. The modern and suitable amount of equipments help us to acquaint the camping lifestyle with the children by way of learning by doing. |
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Name of the project: | Cleaning the Big Canal of Backa |
| ID | RS 1/11 | |
| Association: | Scout Association of Serbia | |
| Contact: | Miron Bukalov, Ravangrad Sombor Scout Group | |
| Support
needed: |
€ 2'280 | |
| Short description: | We organize a one-week camp for the 30 participants of the project. They stay in tents in the Bezdan camp, located on the bank of the The Big Canal of Backa. Every day, in their canoes, the participants gather the waste from the canal and bring it to the camp, and from there the waste is transported to the landfill. |
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Name of the project: | Polish-Hungarian mutual summer scout camp (improving twin town relationships) |
| ID | HU 2/11 | |
| Association: | Hungarian Scout Association | |
| Contact: | Gábor Mikulásik | |
| Support
needed: |
€ 1'000 | |
| Short description: | Százhalombatta, Hungary and Brzesko, Poland are twin towns, thus the aim of the mutual scout camp is to improve the relationship of the two towns, to make friendship, and to getting to know each other. This could be very important to the two towns, too. |
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Name of the project: | Mountain Partners |
| ID | MK8/10 | |
| Association: | Scout Association of Macedonia | |
| Contact: | Ljubomir Madzovski | |
| Support
needed: |
€ 1'500 | |
| Short description: | The aim of this project is to obtain better working conditions for our Scout Group which exists fifty years, but its outdoor equipment is old and damaged. |
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Name of the project: | Mountaineer Scouts |
| ID | HU1/11 | |
| Association: | Hungarian Scout Association | |
| Contact: | Norbert Laszlo HEIZLER | |
| Support
needed: |
€ 2'000 | |
| Short description: | Our aim is to provide facilities for our fellow scouts who like high-altitude mountaineering, but in most cases, being students, do not have an own income. |
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Name of the project: | Inner Acommodation for Nocrich Scout Centre |
| ID | RO 1/10 | |
| Association: | National Organisation of Romanian Scouts | |
| Contact: | Alexandru Moldovan | |
| Support
needed: |
€ 3'000 | |
| Short description: | The National Organisation of Romanian Scouts has
started in 2010 to renovate it’s first National Scout Centre, at
Nocrich, 20 km away from Sibiu (2007 European Capital of Culture). The Scout Centre is composed of an old Saxon mansion, of 186 m2, built between 1796 -1798, three adjacent buildings used for camp facilities (cooking area, storage area and toilets) and a porch yard of one hectare. |
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Name of the project: | Training for Scout Patrol Leaders |
| ID | MK7/10 | |
| Association: | Scout Association of Macedonia | |
| Contact: | Angelce Gusev | |
| Support
needed: |
€ 1381 | |
| Short description: | For five days 50 young scouts will be educated to become the next patrol leaders in their groups. This training will be implemented in the scout center "Golozinci". The scouts will work in small groups and each group will have a trainer who will be their mentor during the training period. |
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Name of the project: | View through the window of Scouting |
| ID | MK6/10 | |
| Association: | Scout Association of Macedonia | |
| Contact: | Frosina Velkovska | |
| Support
needed: |
€ 1463 | |
| Short description: | The aim of the project is to give a chance to 30 youth
from Roma origin for the first time to experience scouting and to get
evolved in creating program for them self. 30 Roma together with 15 scouts and 5 trainers will spend 5 days in a camp where they will share knowledge, impressions, considerations... and have several objectives |
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Name of the project: | Urban Camp - Growth Camp |
| ID | MK4/10 | |
| Association: | Scout Association of Macedonia | |
| Contact: | Saso Petreski | |
| Support
needed: |
€ 1500 | |
| Short description: | The project will be divided in two separate parts. First part well be taking place in the urban area in the town Prilep (80,000 citizens), located in the city park that is busy area. Scout camp well be constructed and well provide information of the interested people. Second part well be held in nature in mountain “Selecka” for 50 members where the new members well have opportunity to experience scouting live and train with special scouts skills that well be teach by special authorized trainers from different categories. |
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Name of the project: | River Scouting |
| ID | MK5/10 | |
| Association: | Scout Association of Macedonia | |
| Contact: | Jane Plavevski | |
| Support
needed: |
€ 1950 | |
| Short description: |
In order to revive river scouting in Macedonia we plan to organize a 4 day scout camp that would be located by a river. In the period of the 4 days our idea is to train 30 members (ages- 15 to 23) from our river scout unit in the techniques and skills of rafting so that they can restart the activities on the rivers. After this kind of training and activities we should rapidly see a rise in the enthusiasm, involvement and moral among the members of our unit. |
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Name of the project: | Scouting for All |
| ID | MK1/10 | |
| Association: | Scout Association of Macedonia | |
| Contact: | Frosina Stojanovska | |
| Support
needed: |
€ 2200 | |
| Short description: | First priority of our scout unit is growth and the initial thought that we have is recruitment of new leaders. Only new leaders can make the organic growth that we are aiming for. Therefore our scout unit is in need of new leaders which will help us reach out to as many children as we can. We are aware about the interest the children have, but from the other side we are not able to provide them scouting, because we are in lack of leaders. |
The European Scout Foundation
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mission of the European Scout Foundation is: - To provide financial support for the development of Scouting in Europe, with a main emphasis on projects of National Scout Organisations in Central and Eastern Europe. - To develop the Friends of Scouting in Europe as a means of raising money to support Scout projects. The Friends of Scouting, acting as Ambassadors, also help Scouting grow through their personal contacts and expertise. - To increase the endowment capital in order to provide financial support for other activities of the European Scout Region, such as seminars, events, publications and operational support. How can I contribute to the development of Scouting in Europe? You can help Scouting grow in Europe in many ways: - by joining the Friends of Scouting in Europe - Financing one or more projects from National Scout Organisations in Central and Eastern Europe - Making a direct donation, by cheque or by bank transfer The European Scout Foundation is ruled under the Swiss law on foundations, exempted of all Swiss taxes, and managed by a Foundation Board in full co-operation with the European Scout Committee of the World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM). The present board of the European Scout Foundation (ESF) is composed of the following members:
1 Members of the Executive Committee of the Board of the ESF 2 Ex-officio members of the Board of the ESF 3 Honorary Member |
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