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MP calls on Government to hand Scouts cash to save historic ex-HQ and campsite

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Ministers are being urged to throw the Scouts a lifeline to help them avoid selling their historic former HQ Baden-Powell House and a major campsite.

The Scouts Association has, like many charities, been hit by a slump in revenue and forced to cut costs during the coronavirus pandemic.

It announced 100 redundancies and plans to sell property and launch a major fundraising campaign to repair battered coffers.

But the proposals to sell Baden-Powell House – named after the movement's found Robert Baden-Powell – and the 86-acre campsite Downe Scout Adventures in Kent, have prompted calls for the Government to intervene.

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