The Scout Association of Malta and the Malta Girl Guides Association will again be teaming up to hold their joint annual parade on Sunday.

The event, formerly respectively known as St George's Day and Joan of Arc Day, has long been the showpiece event of the respective associations. This year also marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Scout Association of Malta. It was on November 9, 1908 that scouting in Malta was born.

An estimated 4,500 scouts and guides are expected to take part in the joint annual parade. These come from 40 scout groups and 30 guide companies and include 19 scout bands. The event will begin with a Thanksgiving Holy Mass at St Publius church, Floriana by Fr Anton Briffa, commissioner for religious dimensions, assisted by other group and company chaplains. At 10.15 a.m. all participating scout groups and guide companies will form up on the Floriana Granaries in the prescribed order of marching and at 10.45 a.m. they will march towards Valletta.

Acting President George Hyzler accompanied by the Chief Scout of the Scout Association of Malta and the president of the Girl Guides Association will take the salute at St George's Square.