Joining
Scouting offers challenge and adventure to 400,000 young people aged 6-25 in the UK. We believe in helping our Members fulfil their potential by working in teams, learning by doing and thinking for themselves. We're working to make Scouting available to all and we're passionate about what we do.
Through the adventure of Scouting, young people get to take risks in a safe environment, and have their first taste of responsibility. We give young people experiences they’ll never forget.
The sort of adventure Scouting offers is the chance to experience something different and the opportunity to challenge yourself. When a Beaver Scout wakes up the morning after a sleepover, or Cub Scout has just got over her fear of heights by completing her first abseil - that’s adventure.
In Scouting, we provide over 200 activities from abseiling to zorbing (that’s falling out of the sky in a foam ball in case you were wondering). If we don’t have an instructor who can help we can normally find someone who can. But Scouting isn’t just about activities for their own sake. We encourage our young people to feel the buzz of the challenge and then reflect on what that means. Did they have fun? Do they feel more confident? Would they do it again?
All this is made possible by the efforts of 100,000 voluntary adult leaders. With award winning training and one-to-one support, we make sure that each one of our volunteers gets to make best use of their skills and talents. It’s something different from the norm, and that why a lot of people like it. In fact, it’s what’s made us the largest co-educational youth Movement in the country.
Through the adventure of Scouting, young people get to take risks in a safe environment, and have their first taste of responsibility. We give young people experiences they’ll never forget.
The sort of adventure Scouting offers is the chance to experience something different and the opportunity to challenge yourself. When a Beaver Scout wakes up the morning after a sleepover, or Cub Scout has just got over her fear of heights by completing her first abseil - that’s adventure.
In Scouting, we provide over 200 activities from abseiling to zorbing (that’s falling out of the sky in a foam ball in case you were wondering). If we don’t have an instructor who can help we can normally find someone who can. But Scouting isn’t just about activities for their own sake. We encourage our young people to feel the buzz of the challenge and then reflect on what that means. Did they have fun? Do they feel more confident? Would they do it again?
All this is made possible by the efforts of 100,000 voluntary adult leaders. With award winning training and one-to-one support, we make sure that each one of our volunteers gets to make best use of their skills and talents. It’s something different from the norm, and that why a lot of people like it. In fact, it’s what’s made us the largest co-educational youth Movement in the country.
Sections
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Beaver Scouts 6 - 8 years old usually.
We currently have a small number of spaces in our Beaver Colony. Volunteering as a leader guarantees your child can join our Beaver Colony. Beavers meet on Fridays from 18:15 to 19:45 |
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Cub Scouts 8 –10 ½ years old usually.
We have spaces. Volunteer as a leader today to allow your child to join and to start a new adventure for yourself! Cubs meet on Fridays from 18:15 to 19:45 |
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Scouts 10 ½ - 14 year olds usually. We unfortunately do not have a scout troop if you are interested in scouts please inquire at any of the local scout troops, 10th Chippenham, 1st Corsham (sea), 1st Derry Hill, 1st Chippenham, 1st Melksham and 1st Calne. Explorer Scouts 14 -18 years old - These are run at a District level. Network Scouts 18 - 25 years old - These are run at a County level. |
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Scouting facts - Did you know?
Community based facts
A leader would typically give time in the following way:
Total average number of hours per person per year 342 hours
Every volunteer gives 42 working days
A total contribution per person of £3,488.40
(If paid at first step Locally Qualified NJC rates of £10.20 an hour)
Total contribution for all adults working in the Movement £383m - over £1/3bn
Adventure based facts
*All information correct at time of publication
- Approximately 110,000 adults support Scouting in the UK (Leaders, Commissioners, parent helpers etc)
- Adults working in Scouting contribute massive free youth work to their local communities
A leader would typically give time in the following way:
- Sectional meetings - two hours a week over 42 weeks 84
- A couple of weekend camps 96
- Planning and District meetings 36
- Training 6
- Day trips - three per year 36
- Admin/planning - two hours per week 84
Total average number of hours per person per year 342 hours
Every volunteer gives 42 working days
A total contribution per person of £3,488.40
(If paid at first step Locally Qualified NJC rates of £10.20 an hour)
Total contribution for all adults working in the Movement £383m - over £1/3bn
- The number of volunteers working for Scouting is larger than the workforces of the BBC (24,000) and McDonalds (67,000) combined.
- In a five-year period Scouting trains 70,000 adults in basic life saving. (CRP)
- Scouting is the largest Membership organisation in the world working for peace.
- Scouting is the only organisation to operate in all but six of the world’s 216 countries and territories.
- There have been enough people involved in Scouting in the UK since 1907 (10 million) to fill the new Wembley stadium 111 times over. That’s approximately 1/6 of the population of the UK. It’s also more people than live in the London today (approximate population seven million).
- During the Kosovo crisis Scouting responded very quickly. Within days it had opened up hundreds of Scout HQs across the UK to help collect thousands of tons of clothing.
- Each year 10,000 Scouts from the UK travel to every continent in the world to work on community projects.
- Every year JoTA and JoTI bring more than 500,000 young people together across the globe.
- In the last 15 years, UK Scouting has raised over £500,000 to support development projects and other charities around the world e.g. The Queen’s Jubilee fund, RNID, Sherpa 88, Water Aid, Unite.
Adventure based facts
- More young people do adventurous activities as Scouts than with any other organisation.
- No other organisation offers such a range of challenging or exciting activities as Scouting.
- The youngest person to walk to the South Pole was a Scout (Andrew Cooney).
- Each year 20,000 Scouts take part in the fitness challenge badge (and achieve it!)
- Each year Scouts undertaking the Queen’s Scout Award walk the equivalent distance of once around the world.
- Each year Scouts spend over 2 million nights away from home doing adventurous activities.
- 11 of the 12 people to walk on the moon were once Scouts.
- You are normally never more than 10 miles from a Scout Meeting Place – adventure is accessible.
*All information correct at time of publication
Do you want the adventure of a lifetime? Can you spare just two nights a month? Do you want your child to be able to join the Cubs?
Joining as a leader won’t just get you started on the adventure of a lifetime and get your child into our Pack but has been shown to have had HUGE benefit to the careers of thousands of adults all over the UK. The Scout Association’s highly respected training programme will help you develop skills you can use in your career and everyday life.
Please note that is your child joins any of our sections you are committing to at least one night a term helping out at our meetings (per section your child is in so if you have a child in Cubs and one in Beavers you will be on the rota for both). This is a nonnegotiable condition of membership. We also require adults to help out on camps, hikes and all other offsite activities. If we do not get the volunteers we need for these activities in advance of them then they will not run. If you are unable to help on the meeting you are assigned try to swap with another parent.
So if you are committing to a night a term (or more if you have children in more than one section) why not get into uniform! You’re only agreeing to around 2 or 3 extra nights a term and you will be well and truly part of the adventure! Leaders get much more out of it than you ever will as a helper! Get stuck in today!
If you are interested (and frankly who wouldn’t be!?) then click on the join button now and fill in your details with the Scout Association NOW! Please also fill in the contact form too and we’ll be in touch.
If you want to sign up your child for Beavers please also click on the join button and fill in the contact form.
Come and see what an amazing adventure you could have with us!
Joining as a leader won’t just get you started on the adventure of a lifetime and get your child into our Pack but has been shown to have had HUGE benefit to the careers of thousands of adults all over the UK. The Scout Association’s highly respected training programme will help you develop skills you can use in your career and everyday life.
Please note that is your child joins any of our sections you are committing to at least one night a term helping out at our meetings (per section your child is in so if you have a child in Cubs and one in Beavers you will be on the rota for both). This is a nonnegotiable condition of membership. We also require adults to help out on camps, hikes and all other offsite activities. If we do not get the volunteers we need for these activities in advance of them then they will not run. If you are unable to help on the meeting you are assigned try to swap with another parent.
So if you are committing to a night a term (or more if you have children in more than one section) why not get into uniform! You’re only agreeing to around 2 or 3 extra nights a term and you will be well and truly part of the adventure! Leaders get much more out of it than you ever will as a helper! Get stuck in today!
If you are interested (and frankly who wouldn’t be!?) then click on the join button now and fill in your details with the Scout Association NOW! Please also fill in the contact form too and we’ll be in touch.
If you want to sign up your child for Beavers please also click on the join button and fill in the contact form.
Come and see what an amazing adventure you could have with us!
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