Cubs Disability Awareness Activity Badge
Cubs Disability Awareness Activity Badge
Discover how to make the world a more inclusive place for everyone.
How to earn your badge:
Different disabilities
- Find out about two different disabilities that you could learn more about. You could look at finding out about disabilities that are visible, or disabilities that may be non-visible.
Remember it will vary from person to person on how people view or describe their own disabilities.
- Share what you’ve found out with someone else in a way that you choose.
Equipment and adaptations
- Find out more about a piece of equipment, assistive technology or adaptation for disabled people that can be used at school or work.
If they are happy, you could invite a disabled person to share something they use to help them and show how it works.
- Find out more about a piece of disability equipment, assistive technology or adaptation for disabled people that can be used for recreation or hobbies.
- Look at how you could make your meeting space, or another venue, more accessible to disabled people with different disabilities.
You could draw your new ideas, build some examples from craft materials, or fund raise to make your changes real.
Communication and support
- Find out about the best ways to communicate with different disabled people. This could include working with interpreters, speaking clearly and visibly for someone who lip reads, or looking at using technology to communicate.
- Learn how you can support different disabled people at different times. This could include giving time and space to an autistic person when they need it or knowing how and when to offer help to someone.
Real world skills and knowledge
- Choose your favourite activity, hobby or sport and think of ways it could be made more accessible. You could focus on a disability of your choice.
- Find some areas in your local community, such as a car park, leisure centre, library, theatre or shopping centre, that may have barriers for disabled people. Try to find a barrier for at least three or four different disabilities.
- Choose one of the barriers you identified in requirement 4b and think about how you could make the space more accessible for disabled people.
Tips
The requirements for this badge have recently been updated, and these requirements should be used from now on. However, if you're already working towards the badge or have activities already planned, you can continue using the old requirements until August 2025.
We've updated the requirements to create a more educational, understanding and respectful badge. As part of the review, we worked with disabled and non-disabled members, as well as external experts.
The new requirements are in-line with the social model of disability which Scouts uses. They also provide space for Scouts to learn about non-visible or less visible conditions, which are often known as hidden disabilities. Find out more about disability inclusion at Scouts.
We’ve also updated the badge design to reflect the new requirements. The new design includes the Hidden Disabilities Sunflower, a widely recognised symbol of non-visible or less visible conditions.
June 2026.
Requirements can be adapted to suit each young persons abilities. See our guidance on flexibility.