Explorers Coach Activity Badge
Explorers Coach Activity Badge
If you enjoy sharing your skills, helping others learn, and developing your leadership abilities, then you should try the Explorers’ Coach badge.
Complete three activities. You could:
Discover - Learn about different coaching techniques, like how to break down skills or keep a group motivated.
Demonstrate these to your Unit, and share one you think works well.
Experience - Run a session to coach a group in a new skill that will help them work towards or achieve the badge that you’re supporting in - see how they do with your help!
Can you evaluate how you’ve instructed afterwards, and learn anything from your experience? You should also consider safety, assessing any risk involved, and what it might mean to be responsible for the session.
Mobilise - Plan, organise and deliver a workshop to a group outside of your Unit
This could be a different section, or a Unit elsewhere in your area. Develop your workshop plan, and teach a skill or activity specific to the badge you earned.
Solve - Come up with a creative way to explain a tricky concept, like using props or games to make it easier to understand.
Try and come up with more than one way to explain the concept, and test them out on a group. See how the different ways affect understanding.
Create - Design a session plan or tip sheet describing how you would teach or instruct a specific skill or activity.
Test out your plan to see if it helps others learn quickly and easily. You could also give the plan to someone else to run, and get their feedback on how easy it was to implement.
Tips
- Love gaming? Find a video game that shows the skill you’re teaching.
- Into drawing? Draw pictures that explain the skill.
- Pick something that excites you and pass on the passion!
- To earn your badge, you can either try some of our example activities, or come up with your own with support from a Scouts volunteer or trusted adult. The activities should be challenging for you and take a reasonable amount of time.
You can offer flexibility in the activities and encourage Explorers to choose activities that reflect their interests and skill set.
We’d recommend an Activity Badge should be achievable within 3 weeks of starting the activities.
- When taking part in adventurous activities, remember to let someone know:
- Where you’re going.
- Who you’re with.
- What time you plan to be finished.
- A plan for communicating your progress.
- Ask for help if you're visiting new places or trying new activities.
- When volunteering with unfamiliar teams, make sure you have a key contact person to liaise with and understand what to do if you feel unsafe or uncertain.
- Complete your own risk assessment based on your plans and ask an adult volunteer to check it for you.
- Make sure you have a clear plan and have checked the area beforehand to confirm it is safe and appropriate for leading team-building activities.
- When taking part in adventurous activities, remember to let someone know:
- All activities for this badge must be safely managed and locally approved.
- Review and make sure that you understand the activities plan and support the young person to ensuring all safety considerations are addressed before it takes place.
- Volunteers must make sure they have completed a thorough risk assessment and taken appropriate steps to reduce risks.
- Use the safety checklist to help plan and risk assess the activity.
Badges will be available to purchase from Scout Store later in September, please check back for updates.
June 2026.
Requirements can be adapted to suit each young persons abilities. See our guidance on flexibility.