GLB-C20-2025
Dear friends,
In line with Resolution 2024-02, the World Scout Committee launched a comprehensive review of WOSM’s fee structure. This review covers both the Registration Fee Model and the Event Fee Model for WOSM World Events. To carry out this work, a task force was appointed at the beginning of the triennium and has since started its work.
As outlined in Circular GLB-04-2025, the Fee Task Force held individual consultations with National Scout Organizations (NSOs) and facilitated workshops at all regional conferences. These activities helped ensure that NSOs’ economic realities, membership contexts, and perspectives are reflected in the review. The workshops also provided an opportunity to reiterate that a review of the fee structure is not intended to increase World Scouting’s fee income. Instead, the aim is to ensure a fairer distribution of fees across NSOs.
Below are some key learnings from the consultations that will inform the development of the fee structures:
Registration Fee Model:
- The fee model should be guided by both membership size and an economic indicator that reflects national realities.
- A flatter structure for NSOs in lower-income countries could significantly improve fairness and stability.
- Clear safeguards are needed to ensure predictability and a smooth transition to any new model.
- Any fee model should be sustainable over time, so that fees continue to reflect real economic conditions.
Event Fee Model:
- NSOs said that having more differentiated event fee categories would make it easier for a wider range of participants to take part in World Events.
These learnings support the overall objective of the review: to develop proposals that are fair and equitable for NSOs, sustainable for World Scouting’s operations, and supportive of the Scout Movement’s growth.
The review is now entering a more focused phase of testing and refinement. We will remain in close contact with NSOs as the work progresses and proposals are further developed. The Fee Task Force will continue to develop and refine options based on your feedback before presenting a final proposal to the World Scout Committee.
To support this process, a dedicated page is available on Treehouse with further details on the consultation process and key learnings. A separate FAQs section will explain the main elements of the models under consideration, how they are being designed, and how NSO feedback is being incorporated.
If you have any questions about the fee models or the outcomes of the consultations, please contact Marko Pankovski, Senior Manager, Data and Research with the World Scout Bureau by email at [email protected].
Yours in Scouting,
David Berg
Secretary General
World Scouting