Share your inner light

Every year, the Peace Light of Bethlehem connects people, Scouts and Guides around the world. The Peace Light travels from country to country, from home to home and from hand to hand. Receiving the Peace Light and passing it on reflects a message of hope and peace, a message of sharing your inner light.

You can find out more on our DSS Peace Light page and Peace Project Challenge page, or by visiting the International Peace Light website. You can contact the DSS Peace Light Coordinator using our contact form.

The journey from France to Great Britain and Ireland

This year’s Light will be collected at a service in Arras and brought back to the UK by ferry. The Light will be met by Scouts in Dover and then be transported to Surrey.

The light will travel North by the M1 to share the Light near Bedford/Luton, followed by Leicester and Nottingham. York Scouters will collect the Light and it will go to Wetherby and then on to Edinburgh. It will also head West across Lancashire, destined for the Isle of Man and Ireland.

The Light will travel West from Surrey to reach Dorset, Cheltenham, Bristol and South Wales.

Help spread Peace in 2021

Due to losses during the pandemic, we need volunteers to make the link from Bristol to Exeter, from where it will be taken to Plymouth and picked up there by Scouters from Truro.

Can you help to complete the link between Bristol and Exeter or share the journey with someone else?

Or could you spread the distribution in other areas of the country such as North Wales, East Anglia and the West Midlands?

If so, contact the DSS Peace Light Coordinator.

The founder of Scouting, Baden-Powell (BP), promoted Peace. By sharing this important symbol of peace it is a chance to “Leave the world a better place than you found it.”