Det Danske Spejderkorps DDS Skiveafdeling(the yellow scouts with khaki-colored uniforms and the characteristic scout hat) was founded in 1915. Det Danske Pigespejderkorps DDP(the blue Girl Scouts with dark blue uniforms) was started in Skive in 1940.
When the two corps – the Danish Girl Scouts and the Yellow Scouts – merged in 1973, the name became Det Danske Spejderkorps and the uniform became blue. The scouts still wear a dark blue uniform with a scarf, each group chooses its own scarf color. The disk group wears a reddish checkered scarf.
Start for the boys in 1915
Bank president Carl Vilhelm Møller Hansen, Skive had been a leader in FDF, but in 1915 he decided to leave the association to start a local branch of the Danish Scout Corps instead.
In an interview the same year, he said: “It cannot be the intention to influence the boys in any political or religious direction, but only to try to open their eyes to nature and teach them to appreciate the outdoor life.”
The Yellow Scouts were organized in Jeppe Aakjær’s troop and pack and the Blue Scouts in Krabbe’s troop and pack.
Organization
Skivegruppen is a group in the Steen Blicher Division under the Danish Scout Corps. Steen Blicher Division is a division of the Danish Scout Corps, which brings together the scout groups in the area around Viborg.
The Skive group has a well-located house on Strandvejen in Skive, where you are close to both forest and fjord. On the grounds there is a campfire hut with a shelter and pizza oven.
Strandhytten is Skivegruppen’s smaller meeting cabin located just north of Skive – right next to the fjord with many opportunities for all types of water and nature activities.
The Danish Scout Corps’ mission statement and purpose
The Danish Scout Corps was founded in 1910 as an all-boys movement on the initiative of Cay Lembcke and others. Cay Lembcke inspired by scouting in England, where Lord Robert Baden-Powell had started the international scouting movement.
During the Boer War, Baden Powell had had great success with a boys’ auxiliary corps, which he had trained with professionally relevant training and not just drills. In 1903, Baden Powell attended the already existing Boy’s Brigade’s annual drill display. The Boy’s Brigade was an English uniformed boys’ corps with the aim of bringing boys together for drills and fun activities based on Christian values. He didn’t immediately like the corps’ work program as he thought that boys could find something more fun and edifying than running around looking like little soldiers. He realized that his own experiences could be used in peacetime and published a series of booklets “Scouting for Boys”, rewriting his military experiences for civilian use.
The Danish Girl Scouts was also founded in 1910, and the Girl and Boy Scouts were merged in 1973 to form the Danish Scout Association, which has a stylized lily as its logo.
The Danish Scout Corps is a voluntary, non-partisan educational movement of children and young people guided by adults.
The Corps is open to everyone regardless of origin, race or faith.
The Danish Scout Corps aims to develop children and young people into awake, independent people who are willing to assume human responsibility in Danish society and around the world to the best of their ability.
Patron is HRH Princess Benedikte
Sources :
- Scout wiki
- skivegruppen.dk
- Skivebogen 1987, Be Prepared. Henrik Fibæk Jensen