UK Youth Forum

Speak up, spark change

The UK Youth Forum is all about putting young people in the driver’s seat! We need to listen to and act on the ideas of our young people.

We want to bring together young people from across the UK to hear their voices, exchange ideas, and explore solutions that will shape the future of the movement. The UK Youth Forum plays a key part in ensuring young people have a voice at all levels of Scouts.

We’ll be delivering the UK Youth Forum in two different ways so as many young people as possible can get involved:

In-person events

We have four events bringing together over 500 young people for a day of engaging workshops, asking for their thoughts on our next strategy and big national projects.
These events are:

Saturday 8th March – Manchester
Saturday 15th March – Oxford
Saturday 29th March – Belfast
Saturday 5th April – Edinburgh

Find out more about our in-person events

Who can take part?

All young people from across the UK.

For the in-person events, we’re asking each English County, Welsh Area, Scottish Region and NI District to send six delegates. A delegation is made up of:

2 Scouts (aged 10.5 - 14)
2 Explorers (aged 14 - 18)
2 adult volunteers (at least 1 must be aged 18 - 25)

The 2 adult volunteers will be responsible for their delegations, and must have completed the Growing Roots learning and First Response. We’d recommend a Youth Lead takes one of the spots.