They offer outdoor facilities, adventurous activities and experiences for members of the Scout Association, other youth organisations and school groups.

The centres typically have capacity for hundreds of Scouts simultaneously, often including indoor accommodation in addition to camping.

Staffed by qualified instructors, they offer adventurous activities and training for adult volunteers and young people following the badges of the Scout programme.

[5] These were: In February 2004, the Scout Association took the decision to sell a number of these campsites and instead focus their efforts on four national centres of excellence.

[26] The majority of the sites that existed were sold to the local scout counties or districts that had been running them up until that point.

[45][44] The visual identity was updated from 2018 to the current logo using many of the same principles of the previous look but applied the Scout Association's new simplified fleur-de-lis and typeface.

The 2020 Coronavirus pandemic, COVID-19, affected the Scout Adventures centres significantly with all having to close and cancel planned activities and bookings while still incurring costs.

[46] In August, the chief executive of Scouts Scotland spoke out about the real threat of closure affecting their three activity centres, Fordell Firs, Meggernie and Lochgoilhead Scout Adventures centres and called upon the Scottish Government to provide additional support to the sector.

[47] In October the Scout Association announced that they would be reducing the number of adventure centres following the financial impact of the coronavirus pandemic, citing a need to reduce staffing costs and assets, enable the association's depleted cash reserves to be replenished, and to allow for local groups badly affected by the pandemic to be helped.

[5] It is the most recent addition to the Scout Adventures network in June 2021 following the impact of the coronavirus pandemic.

Planned refurbishment over winter 2022 includes 2 replacement toilet and shower blocks, reopening of the tunnels/potholing complex and a new high-ropes activity area.

They also offer bell boating on nearby Loch Ore.[60][61] Gilwell Park is a 109-acre estate on the outskirts of Chingford, Greater London.

[62] It is consequently one of the landmarks of the world Scouting movement and international attendance at training and events for leaders is not uncommon.

Its logo from these years was based on an axe buried into a log in a rounded lime green square with black border: the axe and log is a long-standing symbol of Gilwell Park and relates to safety advice given during the early leader training courses.

The site contains a number of camping fields suited to different purposes, four indoor accommodation blocks, a tented village and two patrol cabins leaving a combined total of 264 beds (excluding those in the White House which are not administered by Scout Adventures).

[34] Its initial logo was of three silhouette trees, similar to the conifers planted as part of Kielder Forest, on an orange rounded square with black outline.

[78] Activities on site are extensive and include climbing, abseiling, crate stacking, high ropes, ghyll scrambling, archery and mountain biking in addition to traditional outdoor and Scouting skills such as fire lighting and navigation.

[45] It is bordered by the River Lyon on site and is tailored towards a wilderness experience with water coming from a bore hole and sterilised rather than from the mains.

[81] Activities on site are tailored towards survival skills and environmental studies and fit into the remote nature of the highlands.

Environmental activities on the site include star gazing, pond dipping, bat detecting and walks that get participants to rely on their senses.

[83][84] Youlbury Scout Adventures is located in Oxfordshire, a few miles South West from central Oxford.

[87] Yr Hafod Scout Adventures is located in Nant Ffrancon Pass, Snowdonia, North Wales.

[97] The site contained a number of very large camping fields, a 45-bed tented village, a three level tunnelling complex,[98] an 8.5-acre lake which was used for a variety of water activities[99] and a new climbing tower.

[101] Originally part of the Sharman estate, it was opened in October 1948 and received a visit from Lord Rowallan, the Chief Scout, a decade later in 1958.

[10] The initial logo of Downe Scout Activity Centre showed the silhouette of a pheasant in a scarlet box with rounded corners and black edge in reference to some of the wildlife found on site.

The site had three lodges for indoor accommodation and two tented villages with a combined bed total of 206 in addition to a number of fields of various sides and a large section of woodland.

[48][49][51] In July 2021, the decision was made to sell the site to the Friends of Downe Activity Centre, who had rallied local community support, once they had raised sufficient funds to complete the sale.

[108][109] Ferny Crofts Scout Activity Centre is sited in the New Forest National Park in Hampshire.

As well as advertising off-site activities including the National Motor Museum, Beaulieu and Brownsea Island, the site hosted high ropes, archery, an adventure course, two climbing towers, rifle shooting, tomahawk throwing and raft building.

[48][49] While a national centre, the site had five large camping fields, two buildings which could be used for accommodation or training purposes and a tented village with a combined 128 beds.