1st World Scout Jamboree 1st World Scout Jamboree The 1st World Scout Jamboree was held from 30 July 1920 to 8 August 1920 and was hosted by the United Kingdom at Kensington Olympia in London. 8,000 Scouts from 34 nations attended the event, which was hosted in a glass-roofed building covering an area of . It was at this event that Baden-Powell, the founder of Scouting, was acclaimed the Chief Scout of the World. The organizing secretary was A.G. Wade. The Olympia arena was filled with a foot-(30 cm)-deep layer of earth, which was turfed over, enabling the Scouts to pitch tents within the
The Danish Scout Council The Danish Scout Council "The Danish Scout Council" (DSC, formerly "Fællesrådet for Danmarks Drengespejdere", FDD) is the national Scouting federation of Denmark. Scouting was founded in Denmark in 1909 and among the charter members of WOSM in 1920. Denmark has 40,813 Scouts. In 1920, "Det Danske Spejderkorps" (DDS) was among the founding members of the Boy Scouts' International Conference. The "KFUM-Spejderne i Danmark" (KFUM-S) gained an independent title of membership in 1924. In 1961, the World Scout Conference changed the statutes of WOSM requesting only one member per country. Thus, DDS and KFUM-S founded the "Fællesrådet for Danmarks Drengespejdere" which