Have your say in the 2025 Scout Experience Survey

We run our Scout Experience Survey each year to find out what you think about Scouts.

It helps us find out what you love and what you'd like to change, as well as understanding the impact Scouts has on young people and communities.

Why the survey is important

The Scout Experience Survey helps us understand what’s working well in Scouts, and what we need to improve. This helps us make better decisions about how to spend time and money more effectively to make Scouts better for everyone.

We also use the Scout Experience Survey results to show the positive impact Scouts has on young people and communities. By highlighting these positives, we can make stronger cases for fundraising and have more influence on things like government and the youth sector. This allows us to grow the movement, so we can give more young people skills for life.

What we've learned so far

Over the years, the survey has uncovered some really valuable insights which we’ve used to inform our work. Some of the key results from last year told us:

• Young people tell us Scouts has given them the opportunity to build confidence, learn new skills, try activities they’ve not done before and make lifelong friends. Young people love doing adventure and outdoors activities but feel they don’t get the chance to do them enough. They feel the programme could be more challenging.
• Feedback from parents and carers was mostly positive. Many praised our volunteers and say that Scouts is great value for money. However, some parents highlight that Scouting can be expensive and more exciting activities (e.g. trips away, camps, adventure activities) may be off-limits for lower income families.
• 90% of volunteers say they enjoy volunteering with Scouts. However, we did see a drop in satisfaction compared with 2023. Some of the main challenges volunteers face include having too much to do and not getting enough support in their role. We hear that having more volunteers to help would reduce workload but recruiting new people can be a challenge.

These insights are incredibly useful, and we'd be grateful to hear your thoughts in this year's survey to help us shape our work for the next year.

Download the 2024 Scout Experience Survey key results (PDF).

How you can get involved

Young people in Scouts aged 13-18 can take part, as well as parents/carers of young people in Scouting, and adult volunteers. If you have regular contact with young people or their parents/carers, please share the survey with them so we can learn how Scouts impacts them, too.

We’d be incredibly grateful if you could fill in this years’ survey and give us your feedback about Scouts.

The survey is open until Sunday 16 November 2025, so make sure you take part before then.

Prizes

As a thank you for your time, we'll enter all young people and volunteers who take part into prize draw for the chance to win a £50 Amazon voucher! Plus everyone who takes part will get a 20% discount at Scout Store. All you need to do is give us your email address at the end of the survey. Here’s what’s up for grabs:

• 10 x £50 Amazon vouchers for young people aged 13-18 (prize draw)
• 10 x £50 Amazon vouchers for adult volunteers (prize draw)
• 20% discount code for Scout Store for everyone who takes part

Remember to complete your survey before Sunday 16 November 2025 to be included in the prize draw.

A huge thank you

If you’ve taken part in this year’s Scout Experience Survey, thank you so much.

We truly appreciate your time, and it’s thanks to your views that we can keep making Scouts better and better for everyone.

We wish you the best of luck in the prize draw!