Since long time in Italy there is a need of creating a network of scout centres (a sit happened in all Europe with WOSM and WAGGS) in order to support all the centres ( and the related associations) and also to offer a certain guarantee to those people who use them.
The first network of Italian Scout Centres born the 19th of April 2008 in Rome from an idea of the responsible of the following scout centres: B.-P. Park (Bassano Romano-Viterbo), Brownsea Park (Villavallelonga-L’Aquila), Massariotta (Marineo- Palermo) and Spensley Park ( San Desiderio, Genova).

Main features of the members of the network of Italian Scout Centres are:

• To be in connection with a scout association
• To be educational areas with referring to the scout law
• To have appropriate areas and facilities in order to develop activities according to scouting specific method
• To guarantee environmental protection and development
• To be always opened in every period of the year
• To put every Scout Group up (Italians and Foreigners)
• To be non-profit organization
• To interact actively with all the other scout centres in order to compare opinions and detect all the possible common paths.

The birth of this network provides to all the leaders of scout unities a better knowledge of appropriate areas able to guarantee educational places in which perform scouting.
The network permits also to all the scout centres participants an useful exchange of information, a most effective external communication, regular relations with all the other scout associations, with press and with public and religious institutions.

The 9th of May 2009 the network was established in voluntary organization.

On November 22, 2010, the Association Network of Centres ITALIAN SCOUT was entered in the register of charities with determination of the Regione Lazio No. B5947