Scout Section
Welcome to the Adventure
Life as a Scout is an eye-opening adventure. Scouting exists to actively engage and support young people in their personal development, empowering them to make a positive contribution to society. The Scout section is the third section in the Scout Group, following Beavers and Cubs, for young people aged between 10½ and 14 years old. In their Troops, Scouts make friends with like-minded young people from all walks of life.Together, they will earn badges and awards by taking part in both indoor and outdoor activities. When Scouts join they are 'invested' – making a promise to do their best and help others.
Activities
Earn badges, achieve awards and enjoy the adventure of a lifetime! Scouts are encouraged to learn by doing, so our Scout Programme is filled with adventurous activities to develop their confidence, independence and skill set. With their Scout Leader, Scouts will plan a variety activities. You can expect Scouts to get involved in activities such as:
• Community impact projects
• Creative activities
• Backwoods cooking
• Camping
• Hiking
• Sports
• Water activities.
The Promise helps Scouts to understand and act in line with the values of Scouting; integrity, respect, care, belief and cooperation. Help your child choose the right Promise for them.
Skills for Life
Scouts learn skills that are essential to building their character, helping others and developing an awareness of the world around them. Scouting helps young people to develop:
• The ability to work effectively in a team
• Leadership skills
• Problem solving skills
• Communication skills
• A sense of responsibility
Peace Of Mind
To ensure your child is safe, leaders adhere to our anti-bullying, equal opportunities, safety and child protection policies.
Scouts take part in activities and learn new skills under the supervision of adult volunteers. They work effectively and safely with
young people to deliver the Scout Programme and have access to training to support them in their role.
Scouting is for adults too! We believe in flexible volunteering and offer a number of adult volunteering roles that suit a range of skills.
INTERESTED?
Speak to one of our team to ask about the different roles available.
How much time you give is completely up to you. Whether you help out once a fortnight, month, term or just at special events or camps, there is bound to be a role for you.
BUILD ON YOUR SKILLS
Scouting offers the chance for you to build on personal skills like teamwork, confidence and leadership.
Subscriptions
Whilst your child is thinking about being Scout (new young person) for the first four weeks you can payment of £10.00 for 4 weeks in cash. This will allow them to see if they like coming to our meetings.
The weekly payment will cover for their insurance while on the premises, payment must be done attendance or non-attendance and as the young person will not be insured and would breaking our insurance terms if we're not receiving subs for the complete period a child is with us.
After 4 weeks could I please ask you to set up the Standing Order for £10 per month at your earliest convenience on preferably on the 14th day of the month and this will be collected monthly there after. This will continue until your young person no longer attends the Group, then it is your responsibility to cancel the standing order.
Once you have set up the Standing Order if you could let the leader know and we can advise the Treasurer who checks the bank statements and confirms back to us it is all been done.
Cubs coming up to Scouts, information is given to the treasurer by the sectional leader and subs are transferred.
