 Active Support members must choose whether to become full or associate members of the Scout Association.The current 'Volunteer Head of Scout Active Support' is 'David J Thompson MBE' who was appointed in December 2019

At the International Scout Conference in August 1947, a resolution was passed which recommended that national Scout Associations should form extended association of "Old Scouts".This was to coincide with the 40th Anniversary of Scouting in 1948.