{"id":795,"date":"2009-05-18T13:26:26","date_gmt":"2009-05-18T12:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/?p=795"},"modified":"2012-05-21T09:25:45","modified_gmt":"2012-05-21T08:25:45","slug":"new-chief-scout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/?p=795","title":{"rendered":"New Chief Scout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\">The UK\u2019s new Chief Scout was announced today and he is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beargrylls.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bear Grylls<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/beargryllschiefscout.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; border: 0px;\" title=\"beargryllschiefscout\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/beargryllschiefscout-thumb.jpg\" alt=\"beargryllschiefscout\" width=\"164\" height=\"244\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Of course, he is only Chief of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scouts.org.uk\" target=\"_blank\">UK Scout Association<\/a>, as there has not been a Chief Scout of the World since <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scouts.org.uk\/cms.php?pageid=129\" target=\"_blank\">THE Chief Scout, BP!<\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">The SA have also appointed a UK Chief Commissioner, Wayne Bilpitt who will work in conjunction with Bear to grow Scouting in the UK.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">This seems like a good appointment as he\u2019s a well known figure who leads an adventurous life. Listening to some of the interviews he\u2019s given so far today, he\u2019s really pushing the fact that we\u2019re short of adult help and this seems that it\u2019s going to be a theme of his term as Chief, which can only be a good thing.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">It seems the PR team at Gilwell have been really on their toes and the story is all over the news and press today and it all appears to be positive! See <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk\/8054699.stm\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">So does this now mean we\u2019ll have an Everest climbing badge??? \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p><span hidden class=\"__iawmlf-post-loop-links\" data-iawmlf-links=\"[{&quot;id&quot;:420,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.beargrylls.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.beargrylls.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:139,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.scouts.org.uk&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260415101804\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.scouts.org.uk\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.scouts.org.uk\\\/&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-17 04:19:18&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-22 07:57:42&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-25 19:35:05&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-29 03:57:50&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-02 12:32:51&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-05 16:45:19&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-14 22:18:57&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-19 11:24:50&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-23 11:47:45&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-27 05:28:15&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-31 19:34:56&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-03 20:34:49&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-06 22:15:13&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-10 09:18:33&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-10 09:18:33&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:421,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.scouts.org.uk\\\/cms.php?pageid=129&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.scouts.org.uk\\\/cms.php?pageid=129&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:422,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/news.bbc.co.uk\\\/1\\\/hi\\\/uk\\\/8054699.stm&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/news.bbc.co.uk\\\/2\\\/hi\\\/uk_news\\\/8054699.stm&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK\u2019s new Chief Scout was announced today and he is Bear Grylls! Of course, he is only Chief of the UK Scout Association, as there has not been a Chief Scout of the World since THE Chief Scout, BP! The SA have also appointed a UK Chief Commissioner, Wayne Bilpitt who will work in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/?p=795\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New Chief Scout&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scouts","tag-scouts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paTxP-cP","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}