World Scout Moot

World Scout Moot
Country	various (list below)
Date	1931 onwards

Scouts and Guides from different countries at World Scout Moot, Sweden, 1996.

The World Scout Moot is a gathering of older Scouts, mainly Rover Scouts, ages 18–26 (although there was no upper age limit for the earlier Moots) from all over the world. Moots are held every four years and are organized by the World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM).

The original name was World Rover Moot, which was later changed to World Moot (because the term Rover was less and less used) and later to World Scout Moot. Moot is also a generic term used for a gathering of any size for Scouts of this age group. The word "moot" was Old English and originally meant a meeting or assembly.^[1]

The World Scout Jamboree is a similar event, also organized by the WOSM, for Scouts aged 14–17.

The most recent World Scout Moot was held in Low, Quebec, Canada in 2013.^[2] The next one will be in Ulfljotsvatn, Iceland in 2017.^[3]

List of moots

Year	Number	Location	Participants	Countries
1931	1st World Rover Moot	Kandersteg, Switzerland	3,000	20
1935	2nd World Rover Moot	Ingarö, Sweden	3,000	26[4]
1939	3rd World Rover Moot	Monzie, Scotland	3,500	42
1949	4th World Rover Moot	Skjåk, Norway	2,500	40
1953	5th World Rover Moot	Kandersteg, Switzerland	4,168[5]	41
1957	6th World Rover Moot	Sutton Coldfield, U.K.	3,500	61
1961	7th World Rover Moot	Melbourne, Australia	969	15
1965-66	Moot Year	10 Events	3,599
1969-70	Moot Year	26 Events	7,250
1973-74	Moot Year	22 Events	11,000
1977-78	Moot Year	23 Events	14,560
1981-82	Moot Year	31 Events	22,380
1990-91	8th World Moot	Melbourne, Australia	1,000	36
1992	9th World Moot	Kandersteg, Switzerland	1,400	52
1996	10th World Moot	Ransberg, Sweden	2,608	78
2000	11th World Scout Moot	Mexico	5,000	71
2004	12th World Scout Moot	Hualien, Taiwan	2,500	85
2010	13th World Scout Moot	Nairobi, Kenya	1,924[6]	66
2013	14th World Scout Moot	Low, Quebec, Canada[7]	2,000	83
2017	15th World Scout Moot	Ulfljotsvatn, Iceland
2021	16th World Scout Moot	Larch Hill, Ireland

See also

• World Scout Indaba

External links

• World Scout Moot on the WOSM web site
• History of World Scout Moots on the Taiwan 2004 page
• 2017 World Scout Moot on the 2017 Scout moot page

References

1. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/moot
2. Australian Report on 14th Rover Scout Moot
3. History of World Scout Moot
4. John S. Wilson (1959), Scouting Round the World. First edition, Blandford Press. p. 93
5. Kandersteg, A Pictorial Record of the 5th World Rover Moot, page 70, Austrian Scout Archives, Vienna, Box: Rover Moots 1931/1953/1992
6. Participant list for the 13th Moot
7. Canadian notice of 14th World Scout Moot