 They were formed by the readers of the CHUMS boy's newspaper, in response to an invitation from the editor for boys to form their own patrols.Cassell merged their patrols with the BBS and allowed them to publish a weekly page June 1909 until mid-1911.CHUMS "On the Watch Tower" news column reported on 11 September 1907 that Robert Baden-Powell's Brownsea Island Scouting encampment was proposed and his recommendation that Boy Scout groups should be formed.