The Guides and Scouts of Norway ( no, Speidernes Fellesorganisasjon) is the national

Scouting Scouting, also known as the Scout Movement, is a worldwide youth movement employing the Scout method, a program of informal education with an emphasis on practical outdoor activities, including camping, woodcraft, aquatics, hiking, backpacking ...

and Guiding federation of

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and t ...

, founded in 2003. It took over the WOSM membership of

Norges Speiderforbund The Norwegian Guide and Scout Association ( no, Norges Speiderforbund, NSF) is a Norwegian Scouting and Guiding association founded in its present form in 1978, when the ''Norwegian Boy Scout Organization'' (founded in 1911 and among the charter ...

and the

WAGGGS The World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS ) is a global association supporting the female-oriented and female-only Guiding and Scouting organizations in 152 countries. It was established in 1928 in Parád, Hungary, and has its ...

membership of the Fellesrådet for speiderpiker i Norge. ''Speidernes Fellesorganisasjon'' serves 17,348 Scouts (as of 2011) and 14,443 Guides (as of 2008). The federation has actual two independent member associations: *

(Norwegian Guide and Scout Association) * Norges KFUK-KFUM-speidere (YWCA-YMCA Guides and Scouts of Norway)

References

External links

Official website
{{WAGGGS, europe World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts member organizations World Organization of the Scout Movement member organizations Scouting and Guiding in Norway Organizations established in 2003 2003 establishments in Norway