Explorers Sports and Fitness Activity Badge
Explorers Sports and Fitness Activity Badge
Get active and challenge yourself to explore the world of sports and fitness. This badge encourages you to try new activities, learn about different sports, and even create your own!
Complete three activities. You could:
Discover - Choose three sports that interest you and research them. What training regimes do they have? What’s different about them, and what’s similar?
Could you talk to someone who takes part in these sports at a competitive level? Think about the differences in accessibility, and how some of these enable accessibility.
Experience - Take part in a new sport.
Try some of the techniques and exercises from the sport, and try a game or race that’s common within the sport.
Mobilise - Teach a sport of your choice to a group.
This could be your Unit, a section you are a Young Leader at, or a group of people uninvolved in Scouts entirely. When teaching your sport, think about how you can communicate the benefits of the sport to those young people, whether physical, social or mental. Make sure you consider all the accessibility requirements of the people you work with.
Solve - Choose a sport that interests you and find out if the equipment can be made either, in a more environmental way, or to be more accessible to someone with a physical disability.
You could make a prototype to show your findings.
Create - Come up with a new sport, design what it looks like, how you play, and teach another group/section it.
This could include a rule book, equipment designs and an accessibility guide.
Tips
- Appreciating and taking part in sports are unique to you and your interests.
- You might find it more interesting to look into a sports teams marketing, or to fundraise money for a local sports group.
- You may want to work with peers to complete this badge, or consult leaders for advice.
- To get the 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.
- Encourage explorers to tailor these to their own abilities/interests.
- Support them if they reach out for support when doing this.
- Everyone has different abilities, when awarding badges, consider their starting point and the progress made, rather than the task completed.
- As a rough guide, badges should be achievable through 3 weeks of activity (but this doesn’t have to be all in sequence)
- 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.
- Make sure you have a clear plan and have checked the area beforehand to confirm it is safe and appropriate for leading activities.
- Complete your own risk assessment based on your plans and ask an adult volunteer to check it for you.
- 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.