Achieving potential

Membership of the Scouts was one of the most formative experiences of my youth.
Many great scout leaders gave me encouragement and helped me learn skills and build a positive can do attitude to life.
The principle of ‘giving back’ stayed with me through the whole of my life and I am so proud to have established the Jack Petchey Foundation in 1999. The JPF has invested over £140m in youth activity across London and Essex encouraging young people to believe – If I think I can I can! The desire to give something back is rooted in my experience of scouting.

Submitted by: Sir Jack Petchey of London