Scouting and Guiding in Switzerland is made up of numerous scouting and guiding bodies which act to provide the opportunities to scout. This could be though Swiss national Scouting and Guiding organizations, through independent troops (attached to the German Scout organization) or through international troops established in Switzerland. While the latter two are similar, there is a fundamental difference because the three independent groups while taking guidance under different national regimes it is a program developed by people in the various cities, where the presence of international groups in Switzerland is a top down targeted programs that have been developed to offer expatriates scouting and guiding in the language they are used to (mostly English) and are developed in areas with a larger expatriate community. All of which are supported the existence of

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and

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, both acting as semi-permanent jamborees.

National Scouting and Guiding organizations

*The main national Scouting organization in Switzerland is the

Swiss Guide and Scout Movement The Swiss Guide and Scout Movement (SGSM) (''German: Pfadibewegung Schweiz (PBS), French: Mouvement Scout de Suisse (MSdS), Italian: Movimento Scout Svizzero (MSS), Rumantsch: Moviment Battasendas Svizra (MBS)'') is the national Scouting and Gir ...

, affiliated to

World Organization of the Scout Movement The World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM ) is the largest and, after the Order of World Scouts (formed in 1911), is the second-oldest international organization in the Scout Movement, having been established in 1922. It has 176 members. ...

and

World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts The World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS ) is a global association that supports Girl Guides, female-oriented and female-only Guiding and Scouting organizations in 153 countries. It was established in the year 1928 in Parád, H ...

, more than 42,000 members *Ehemaligen Pfadi Schweiz/Anciens Scouts de Suisse, affiliated to

International Scout and Guide Fellowship The International Scout and Guide Fellowship (ISGF) is a worldwide organization of adults in support of Scouting and Girl Guides, Guiding. The International Scout and Guide Fellowship is open to former members of the World Association of Girl Gui ...

*Feuerkreis Niklaus von Flüe, founded 1988, Catholic, affiliated to

World Federation of Independent Scouts The World Federation of Independent Scouts (WFIS) is a non-governmental international Scouting organization with over 7 million members in 151 affiliated Scout organizations in 65 countries. WFIS was formed in Laubach, Germany Germany, ...

*Pfadfinderbund Seeland, interreligious and coeducational, affiliated to

*Schweizerische Pfadfinderschaft Europas/ Guides et Scouts d’Europe Suisse, affiliated to

Union Internationale des Guides et Scouts d'Europe The International Union of the Guides and Scouts of Europe - Federation of Scouts of Europe (Union Internationale des Guides et Scouts d’Europe, UIGSE; also known as ''Union Internationale des Guides et Scouts d'Europe – Fédération du Scou ...

*Royal Rangers/Jungschar Schweiz, affiliated to

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*Adventwacht (ADWA),

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and coeducational, affiliated to

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Switzerland

Independent troops

*In

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operates a single Girl Scouts troop of the German traditionalist Catholic Scout association Katholische Pfadfinderschaft Jeanne d'Arc. This troop operates within the Society of St. Pius X. *Pfadi Weiach in Stadel, Kaiserstuhl and

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. The troop is interreligious, coeducational and is a former unit of the Swiss Guide and Scout Movement *IG Gewässerschutz Kollbrunn-Flusspfadi Tösstal in Kollbrunn,

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, interreligious and coeducational

International Scout and Guide units in Switzerland

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, served by the

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, served by USAGSO headquarters *

Girlguiding UK Girlguiding is the operating name of The Guide Association in the United Kingdom, previously named The Girl Guides Association, which was formed in 1910. It is the original Girl Guides organisation in the world and, in 1928, became a founding m ...

, served by British Guides in Foreign Countries *Hungarian Scouting, served by Külföldi Magyar Cserkészszövetség - Hungarian Scout Association in Exteris * Det Danske Spejderkorps has also troops in Switzerland. * Corpo Nacional de Escutas has a group in Geneve.

International Scout centres

Two international Scout centres are located in Switzerland:

Kandersteg International Scout Centre The Kandersteg International Scout Centre (KISC) is an international Scout centre in Kandersteg, Switzerland. The centre provides lodges, chalets and campsites covering 17 hectares of land. It is open to Scouts year round, as well as to non-Scou ...

, affiliated with WOSM, and

, affiliated with WAGGGS.

References

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