An appeal on behalf of THE HEDINGHAM SCOUT TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT SCHEME, by CHRISTOPHER STONE ,
D.S.O., M.C.
The Hedingham Scout Training and Employment Scheme was started in 1929 with one camp at Hedingham Castle and eighteen men. Today the organisation has five camps, each with forty men under the supervision of a Rover Scout Leader.
The object of the scheme is to take unemployed single men between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five from the Distressed Areas, to build up their strength and train them for all kinds of indoor and outdoor private service. Or, if they express the wish, every effort is made to get them into one of the Services or into industrial employment.
No fewer than 600 men a year are passing through the camps at the present time, but the organisation could deal with at least 1,000 if the money were available.
Contributions will be gratefully acknowledged, and should be addressed to [address removed]