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The Boy Scouts were founded because Baden-Powell saw a need for getting youth involved and motivated after seeing the conditions they were living in urban London. He discovered that some youth took his military manual on scouting and were using it themselves. So he worked on a scheme to create "Scouting for Boys," tested it out on Brownsea Island in 1907 taking 22 youth form various socio-economic and living areas across England to try out his idea, and the rest is history.

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