Thursday 22 July 2010

Scout Movement: Scouting For Business


"The Scout Association will launch an entrepreneur badge, adding business start-ups to a list of approved activities that more traditionally includes camping, singalongs and woggle-wearing," reports The Financial Times, in a piece rather wittily titled 'Scouting For Del Boys'.
"The badge, which shows a rising bar chart suggestive of soaring sales, is the brainchild of multimillionaire Richard Harpin, founder and chief executive of the Homeserve domestic insurance business, capitalised at £1.4bn.
"Mr Harpin, a former member of the First Stocksfield Cubs and Scouts Group, Northumberland, said: 'I felt there was a group of young people who would like to hear about entrepreneurship in an exciting environment outside the classroom.'”
Baden-Powell must be grinning in his grave.

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