Volunteering in Scouting
Volunteering can be a brilliant way to boost your mental wellbeing. With Scouts it’s a great feeling knowing you’re helping young people get skills for life, and you might even learn a lot about yourself along the way.
Scouts can make you feel good in other ways too. We’ll guide you to an opportunity where you’ll:
- Make friends and meet people
- Try new things and challenge yourself
- Get outdoors and get stuck in
- Positively impact your community
- Create vital opportunities for young people
- Make memories that’ll last a lifetime
In 2022 1st Market Bosworth Scout Group have welcomed some pretty amazing adults to our Scout Group Leadership team and Trustee team. Some of the adults who joined us were part of our succession planning and some were additions to our current volunteers. To join, these adults have agreed to Scouts enhanced DBS checks and are all going through their free Scout training which includes Safeguarding, Safety, GDPR and role specific training.
When new volunteers join, each bring their own unique skills and experiences. Someone has to be good at ordering badges, cleaning, organising events, promoting positive behaviour, risk assessments, spending money, checking the accounts that we have enough money to spend! and more. Having a diverse group of people who can share the different skills is key for success. Considering this diversity, we have been very lucky to recruit in 2022 five decades of adults from; 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s and 2000s. Split 50/50 men and woman. So age and sex hasn’t been a barrier. Thank you for joining us; Caron, Chloe, Clare, Duncan, James, Jon, Kyle and Loretta.
You don’t have to be an adult to volunteer in Scouting. We have “Young leaders” who volunteer, they are young people between the age of 14 and 18 who to help the adults at Section meetings [Beavers Scouts, Cub Scouts and Scouts]. Thank you, Abi, Ellis, Grace, Niall for being our young leaders.
Ideally a Young Leader will go onto be an adult leader and Jon and Kyle are two examples of this;
Volunteering
Jon has agreed in 2022 to join the Trustee committee with full voting rights as a youth champion [youth champion = under 25 years old] and has become a trustee of our charity as well as doing his existing role as an adult Assistant Scout Leader. That’s a lot of responsibility!
Kyle [Koala] has been a young leader with us since he was fourteen years old. On his eighteen birthday, this November 2022 he was invested as an adult leader at a party held in his honour. Kirk his Scout Leader who first suggested Kyle be a Young Leader all those years ago was present along with; the Beaver Scout Leadership team, the Beaver Scouts, their parents / guardians and his family. A present of a re-enactment coat was bought from money collected to thank Kyle and celebrate his 18th in style. Thank you to everyone who donated.
If you feeling inspired to contact us please do, we have loads of opportunities and are particular interested in volunteers who would be interested in;
- Researching and applying for Grants
- Running and / or supporting a leadership team for younger age groups between 4 and 6 years old.
- Running and / or supporting a leadership team for older age groups between 14 and 18.
November 2022.
