Supporting local Scouting

Identifying and understanding challenges faced by groups as a result of COVID 19 and supporting them with the right tools and resources to rebuild. To include delivering digital sessions, completing COVID risk assessments, funding and restarting socially distanced face to face scouting.

Assess your Group, District or County’s situation and create an action plan to respond to COVID-19 by reading the pages on creating an action plan.

Use the action plan template while working through the below pages:

• Plan for getting back together
• Making the most of your volunteers
• Re-engaging families
• Building your programme
• Filling the gaps
• Long term sustainability
• Fundraising

If further support is needed, you can request a COVID Response workshop through the project request form.

Support for those groups who had sustainable numbers of young people, but due to the impact of COVID-19 have suffered a loss of young people which will impact their programme delivery. Offer support growing and retaining numbers and explaining and encouraging the use of available resources for long term recruitment plans and retention.

Support for those groups who had sustainable numbers of volunteers, but due to the impact of COVID-19 have suffered a loss and need support recruiting the right skills for the group. Support with recruitment for all roles including Exec, GSLs and DCs, and explaining and encouraging the use of available resources for long term recruitment and retention.

Supporting volunteers to develop new groups or sections where ready to do so check out the online resources

Helping groups to understand their local communities, developing a group or district 'fact sheet', which will help ensure scouting is relevant to the local community and identify barriers to inclusion and entry. It will also help identify key contacts in the community, and opportunities for community engagement, partnerships and networking opportunities. 

Supporting groups with long term sustainability issues prior to, and not as a result of, COVID-19, assisting groups to identify where issues arise from and creating a development plan to rectify the issues moving forward.

This includes small section sizes, low volunteer numbers, and governance or executive committee sustainability. 

Read more details on Covid Response - Long term sustainability within - Create an action plan to respond to COVID-19

The team provide support to induct the following key line managers:

• County Commissioners
• District Commissioners 
• Group Scout Leaders

If you're a new manager needing an induction, your line manager will put you in touch with one of the team. In the mean time check out the online resources we are currently reviewing these and will be updating them soon.

Re-engaging your volunteer team is really important if your section or volunteers  have had a break from meeting regularly. You need to ask if they are ok and happy to return to Scouting.  If you need support or guidance on how to do this take a look at our useful step by step guide and links to resources