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HRH The Prince of Wales and Chief Scout Bear Grylls honours Scouts' top achievers
Thursday 22nd April
Four Scouts from Glamorgan West have been honoured by HRH The Prince of Wales, and international adventurer Chief Scout Bear Grylls for gaining their Queen’s Scouts Awards.
Local Scout leaders Harriet Brewster, Richard Organ, Graham Rees-Evans and Daniel Melbourne will all attend the prestigious ceremony this weekend.
This year marked a double first for both HRH The Prince of Wales, and international adventurer Chief Scout Bear Grylls. Bear greeted The Prince of Wales to honour 350 new Queen’s Scouts at Windsor Castle on Sunday 25th April. This was the first time that both of them have attended this prestigious occasion.
The event has come at a boom time for Scouting following last week’s announcement of the Movement’s greatest growth for 38 years with membership numbers now totalling nearly half a million.
The Queen’s Scout Award is the highest honour in Scouting and is awarded for outstanding personal achievement. This honour is achieved by young people aged between 16 and 25 who have completed a range of challenges, which includes service to their community, completing an expedition in wild country, undertaking a five-day residential project in an unfamiliar environment and learning a new skill or developing an existing talent. 
Harriet Brewster, aged 22 from Mount Pleasant said “Gaining my Queen’s Scout Award has been awesome. One of the best things I have ever done in Scouting was having a real adventure completing my expedition. I hiked across Yorkshire doing a project on the local fauna and it was brilliant. I have also been a Scout leader helping to support Clydach Scouts and that has really helped me”.
Chief Scout Bear Grylls said "All these young people have lived the adventure of a lifetime to achieve their Queen’s Scout Awards, and I admire that spirit so much. They are huge inspirations to the other 500,000 scouts in the UK and I am so pleased that both Scouting and The Prince of Wales have honoured them today. They are amazing.”
The Windsor Castle event has been held regularly since 1934 on the Sunday nearest to St. George's Day (23rd April). St. George is the Patron Saint of Scouting.
Since the Queen’s Scout Award was instigated, over 100,000 of these awards have been presented to young men and women for outstanding personal achievements and service to their local communities. They have learnt new skills and taken part in many of the 200 different activities on offer by Scouting across the UK.