History Youth Twin Town Contacts.
How it started. First Leaders Conference 1970
Initially, until 1972, only the Scouts were involved. In 1968 a scout leader from Wilmersdorf (Berlin) arrived at the house of the then Borough Commissioner, Albert Prince, requesting to bring thirty scouts tot Sutton six weeks later. The
were subsequently accommodated at the 4th Worcester Park Scout H.Q.
The following year a Jomborette was held in Berlin for the scouts of the twin
towns (Wilmersdorf, Minden, Sutton, Apeldoorn and Gladsaxe), and al party of scouts from many groups in the Borough attended. They
were led by Ron Kinton, then ADC (Scouts) Sutton and Cheam, who at the final
camp fire suggested that a meeting of leaders would take place in Sutton the
following year. This was to be the first conference.
At the Jamborette the Danish and German participants came from several
groups, but the Dutch scouts were all from one group - the JJB group.
The conferences have taken place every year since 1970, and the aim has been
to foster relationships between the uniformed organisations of the twin towns.
Whilst Paisley is not a twin town of Sutton their Girls Brigade and Boys Brigade
have close ties with Gladsaxe so they became involved.
The purpose of the conference has been to develop the opportunity for members
of the organisations to meet as individuals, groups or in broad age ranges.
The first camp for the fourteen tot twenty year olds was held in Gladsaxe in 1979.
Before that date many individuals had built up friendships and some groups have created close ties.
In the past also participated the Brigade of Boys & Girls,but showed no interest after 1993.

Paggs Camp History (till 2002)
The first Youthcamp named PAGGS was held in 1979 Gladsaxe, Denmark. It was
called PAGGSCAMP of the initial letters of the twinned towns: Paisley,
Apeldoorn, Gladsaxe, Gagny, Sutton, because the participants came from this
towns in Scotland, Holland, France, Denmark, England.
There had been 10 years before in 1969 already a twin town youthcamp calles
Jamborette in Wilmersdorf-Berlin of the 4 twin towns Wilmersdorf-Berlin,
Apeldoorn, Gladsaxe, Sutton. It was picked up 10 years later by Gladsaxe.
Each twin town has his own circle of twin towns. Origanilly is the basic circle:
Sutton-London, Wilmersdorf-Berlin, Gladsaxe-Copenhagen, Gagny-Paris,
Apeldoorn, Minden. Because Gladsaxe is in his circle twinned with Paisley-
Glasgow in Scotland, joint Paisley into the youthcamps and leaderconferences
and got the Youtcamps the name PAGGS.
Originally the camps were every 2 years. Now it is every 3 years, because of the
organising by the same people as the leaders conferences. It was too much
stress. The camps were hold as followed: 1. 1979 Gladsaxe, 2. 1981 Sutton, 3. 1983
Apeldoorn, 4. 1986 Paisley, 5. 1988 Gladsaxe, 6. 1990 Sutton, 7. 1993 Apeldoorn,
8. 1996 Paisley, 9. 1999 Gladsaxe, 10. 2002 Sutton.
The aim is to get 50 persons from each town. However not every town has so
much scouts or guides members. Gagny has only 1 scout group. So for Gagny it
is very hard to get more participants as ± 20, or to organise a conference or
camp.
In 2001 was decided tot extend the partnership circle of Scouts/Guides with the
Czech Republic Pardubice-Prague. Pardubice had already a partnership with
Apeldoorn, Holland since 1995, and participated 3 leaders conferences.
Usually the camps have a camp theme to give it a special atmosphere. In 2002 was
it “The Elements, Fire, Water, Earth, Air”. 1999 Denmark was “The land of make believe”
(fairy tales etc.), 1996 Scotland was famous Scottish inventors (Bell,
Watt, Baird, Burns), 1993 Holland
was “Asterix and Obelix”, 1990
England was Robin Hood, etc. etc.
Above all is the purpose of the
camps to develop the opportunity
for children of different countries
to meet as individuals or groups
to gain a greater international
and European understanding.

International Meetings
Twin Towns-Partnerships Leaders Conferences (TWITOCO) and Youthcamps (PAGGS)
1968 Wilmersdorf - Scouts visit Sutton
1969 Wilmersdorf - Jamborette
1970 Sutton - 1st Conference
1971 Apeldoorn - 2nd Conference
1972 Gladsaxe - 3rd Conference
1973 Paisley - 4th Conference
1974 Sutton - 5th Conference
1975 Apeldoorn - 6th Conference
1976 Gladsaxe - 7th Conference
1977 Paisley - 8th Conference
1978 Sutton - 9th Conference
1979 Apeldoorn - 10th Conference and Gladsaxe 1st PAGGScamp
1980 Gladsaxe - 11th Conference
1981 Paisley - 12th Conference and Sutton 2nd PAGGScamp
1982 Apeldoorn - 13th Conference
1983 Gagny - 14th Conference and Apeldoorn 3th PAGGScamp
1984 Sutton - 15th Conference
1985 Gladsaxe 16th Conference
1986 Paisley - 17th Conference and Paisley 4th PAGGScamp
1987 Apeldoorn - 18th Conference
1988 Gagny - 19th Conference and Gladsaxe 5th PAGGScamp
1989 Sutton - 20th ANNIVERSARY CONFERENCE
1990 Gladsaxe - 21th Conference and Sutton 6th PAGGScamp
1991 Paisley - 22th Conference
1992 Apeldoorn - 23th Conference
1993 Gagny - 24th Conference and Apeldoorn 7th PAGGScamp
1994 Sutton - 25th Conference
1995 Gladsaxe - 26th Conference
1996 Paisley - 8th PAGGScamp
1997 Apeldoorn - 27th Conference
1998 Gagny - 28th Conference
1999 Gladsaxe - 9th PAGGScamp
2000 Wilmersdorf-Berlin - 29th Conference
2001 Paisley - 30th Conference
2002 Sutton - 10th PAGGScamp
2003 Pardubice-Prague - 31th Conference
2004 Gladsaxe - 32th Conference
2005 Gladsaxe - Young leaders camp
2006 Apeldoorn - 11th PAGGScamp