Scouting and Guiding in Spain

File:Exploradores 1929.jpg

Explorers from Catalonia, 1929

The Scout Movement in Spain consists of about 30 independent associations, most of them active on the regional level. Due to the regionalisation of Spain, even the larger nationwide associations are divided into regional sub-associations with individual emblems, uniforms and Scout programs.

Associations

Spanish Scout associations are divided in three organizational groups:

• Associations affiliated to the World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM)
• Associations affiliated to the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS)
• Independent organizations, including a number of members of the smaller international umbrella organizations.

WOSM member organizations

The Federación de Escultismo en España is the national Scout organization within WOSM. It serves 58,744 Scouts (as of 2004) and consists of three member organizations:

• Federación de Asociaciones de Scouts de España (full member; interreligious; ASDE)); its sub-associations include
  • Scouts de Canarias
• Movimiento Scout Católico (full member; Catholic; MSC)
• Federació Catalana d'Escoltisme i Guiatge (observer; only in Catalonia); its member organizations are
  • Acció Escolta de Catalunya (interreligious; also affiliated to ASDE; WOSM-Member only)
  • Escoltes Catalans (intereligious)
  • Minyons Escoltes i Guies Sant Jordi de Catalunya (Catholic; also affiliated to the Movimiento Scout Católico).

WAGGGS member organizations

Spanish Guiding is affiliated to WAGGGS via the Comité de Enlace del Guidismo en España, an umbrella federation serving 7.154 members (as of 2003). The Comité has two member organizations; both are again umbrella federations:

• Federación Española de Guidismo
  • Asociación Guías de Aragón
  • Associació Guiatge Valenciá
  • Escoltes i Guies de Mallorca
  • Euskal Eskaut Gia Elkartea
• Federació Catalana d'Escoltisme i Guiatge
  • Escoltes Catalans
  • Minyons Escoltes i Guies Sant Jordi de Catalunya

Independent Scout organizations

Independent (or non-aligned) Scout organizations in Spain include:

• Asociación Española de Guías y Scouts de Europa (500 members; Catholic); affiliated to the Union Internationale des Guides et Scouts d'Europe
• WFIS en España; affiliated to the World Federation of Independent Scouts; with three regional members:
  • Associació Catalana de Scouts
  • Asociación de Scouts Independientes de Madrid
  • Asociación Galega de Escultismo, Breogán Scouts
• Asociación de Guías y Scouts ASA - Andalucía
• Federación de Asociaciones Scouts Baden-Powell
• Asociación Juvenil De Escultismo Andaluz
• Centre Marista d'Escoltes
• Federación Scout Regional de Madrid

Scouting in external territories

In the Canary Islands there are at least 2500 Scouts, belonging to the ASDE and to the MSC, on three islands, Tenerife, Gran Canaria and Fuerteventura.

Scout-like organizations

• Organización Juvenil Española

Emblems

• Asociación Galega de Escultismo Breogán Scouts.jpg

  Asociación Galega de Escultismo, Breogán Scouts

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  Scouts de Canarias, an ASDE sub-association

• Scouts de España.svg

  Scouts de España, 1960-1978

See also

• Scouts de España

External links

• Federation of Scouting in Spain - official website
• Federacion Española de Guidismo - official website (Spanish)