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Almtuna's troop badge since the autumn of 2006.

You've navigated to Almtuna scoutkår's (Almtuna Scout Troop) web page. We're a Swedish scout troop with members that usually live in and around the city of Uppsala. We use to have our scout activties at Ekbacken, our scout cottage, which is located about 10 kilometres to the northeast of Uppsala city.
Together with other scout troops in Uppsala and in the area around Uppsala we form Upplandsslättens scoutdistrikt, our district. The district itself belongs to SSF (Svenska scoutförbundet), our scout association.

Something that is quite unique to scouting in Sweden is that we don't split girls and boys — we have our meetings together.
There are four official scout associations i Sweden, but only one association per country is allowed in WOSM (World Organisation of the Scout Movement) and WAGGGS (World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts). Hence we have SSR (Svenska scoutrådet), in which all Swedish scout associations are members. SSR makes it possible for each scout in Sweden to have a membership in either WOSM or WAGGGS.

Almtuna Scout Troop was founded in 1959 by parents in the quarters 'Almtuna' and 'Petterslund' in Uppsala, Sweden. In the beginning the scouts used a soldier's cottage outside Uppsala for their activities. However, the cottage wasn't large enough and therefore we decided to demolish it and build a larger house. But where should we get the material from? Well, at this time the construction work of Arlanda International Airport was done and since they didn't have any use of the temporary houses the workers were using, we received them (the houses, not the workers) and they formed what today is 'Ekbacken'. Apart from some repainting there hasn't been a lot of changes since Ekbacken was built.

Until the late 90's we held some of our meetings in the basement of Almtunakyrkan (Almtuna Church), as our former chairman was the janitor of the church. It was simpler for people to come there than to Ekbacken. However the premises got affected by mould so we don't have our activities there any longer.

Today our troop consists of around 100 scouts and, of course, our beloved Ekbacken. Almost every scout meeting is held there nowadays. We have tracking scouts (8-9 years), discovering scouts (10-11 years), adventuring scouts (12-14 years) and challenging scouts (15-18 years). The challenging scouts have their own cottage to which younger scouts aren't allowed to enter.