A worldwide chain since 1907
Keep the chain unbroken.
Every campfire carries a pinch of ash from the fires before it. Scout Ashes makes that lineage visible — tracing your fire, link by link, back to Baden-Powell's original flame.
3,418 fires · 587 troops · app coming 2026
1907
The original campfire
3,418
Fires connected
587
Troops in the chain
1,902
Places fires have burned
94
Countries reached
1
Unbroken flame
The tradition
Four steps. One unbroken flame.
It's the same ceremony scouts have kept for over a century — Scout Ashes simply remembers it for you.
STEP 1
Collect
Save a measure of ash from your campfire before it dies.
STEP 2
Log
Record the fire — place, date, troop, and the people around it.
STEP 3
Carry
Add that ash to the next fire you light, wherever it is.
STEP 4
Connect
Link your fire to the one you received from. The chain grows.
"When the children saw their fire join a line that reached back to Brownsea Island, scouting stopped being history. It became something they were holding in their hands."
DT
Dianne Tagoe
Scout leader · Accra, Ghana