Heriot’s Scout Group has been running continuously for at least 115 years as an extracurricular activity of George Heriot’s School. The earliest reference to a school Scout Group was found in a school document dated September 1909. It is believed that a ‘boys club’ existed prior to the official establishment of Scouting by Lord Baden-Powell, and this club likely adopted the Scouting method after the publication of BP’s book Scouting for Boys in January 1908.
Scouting in Edinburgh has its origins in the six private school ‘boys clubs’ that adopted the Scouting model becoming the city’s first Scout Groups. Today, only two of these original Groups remain: the 7th at George Heriot’s and the 9th at George Watson’s.
Below is our Centenary Photo Collection
