Friend makes Scouting history

Quaker becomes first female chair of The Scout Association

by Tara Craig 23rd October 2015

Ann Limb, of Milton Keynes Meeting, has been elected chair of The Scout Association UK.

She is the first woman to hold the post and is responsible, with the trustees and chief executive, for the strategic oversight of the organisation, with legal and financial accountability for its policies and activities. Ann is also responsible for the stewardship, scrutiny and safeguarding of the association’s membership, which is made up of some 547,897 adults and young people throughout the UK.