Explorers Adventure Challenge Award
Explorers Adventure Challenge Award
The Adventure Challenge Award is all about having great experiences and seeing new and exciting places. Work as a team to plan out your challenge, thinking about the skills you might need and who can help you learn them
Whether it’s trying out a new adventure sport, organizing an expedition, planning a sponsored event, or mapping out an unfamiliar location, use this Challenge Award to help you get there.
How to earn your badge:
Choose an appropriate challenge to be completed as a group of Explorers. It should fit the theme of this Challenge Award and should be achieved within 6 months of starting.
Use these six ‘Experience Principles’ to plan how you will complete your challenge. You should do something within each principle.
Create - Bring something into existence
Experience - Try something out
Discover - Learn something new
Mobilise - Bring others together
Solve - Fix a problem
Reflect - Know and care for yourself
Record your progress and achievements in whatever way you want to.
Share your evidence with your Leaders or fellow Explorers to demonstrate how you engaged with the Challenge Award theme through the six “Experience Principles”.
Tips
- When taking part in any activity, remember to let someone know-
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- Where you’re going.
- Who you’re with.
- What time you plan to start and 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.
- When mobilising in social action locally, consider everyone's safety and delegate tasks accordingly, especially in unfamiliar areas or locations.
- Have a clear plan and risk assessment for your activities.
- Make sure that any external provider you use follows The Scouts' requirements by checking the Externally Led Activity guidance.
- All activities for this badge must be safely managed and have local approval.
- All activities must have a thorough risk assessment and make sure it is shared.
- Use the safety checklist and activity guidance to help you plan and risk assess the activity.
- Support Explorers to review and understand the Externally Led Activity guidance. External providers need to meet Scouts’ requirements.
- Explore your local area and map out safe, interesting hiking routes
- Find out about fun new outdoor sports and learn how to play them
- Try 5 new adventurous activities such as: kayaking, canoeing, paddleboarding, treetop adventures, rock climbing, visiting a cave, underground escape room
- Organise a clean-up of your local area. This could be an organised litter pick of a park or beach.
- Explore opportunities to look after yourself. This could be art therapy, journalling, creative writing, blogging, mindfulness activities, meditation, nature walks. Document your journey – what benefits did you notice?
- Complete your Explorer Belt Award
- Plan an adventure with your Explorer Unit
- Volunteer at your local campsite
- Work towards gaining a permit for an adventurous activity
June 2026.
Requirements can be adapted to suit each young persons abilities. See our guidance on flexibility.