Before starting - the idea
Before starting - the idea
Community mapping allows you to understand more about the people and places that make up your community. You can find more ideas and a step-by-step approach to mapping your community on our Getting to know your community webpage.
Use local information to help guide your choices. This might depend on venue availability, or when other youth activities are running, which could affect the interest of young people being part of your new Section.
This is a great opportunity to share the information you’ve found during your community mapping process and demonstrate how a new Section could benefit the whole Scout Group.
Work together to talk about the key points for opening a new Section and how you can support each other throughout the process.
It’s important you have support to open the new Section. In the beginning, a working group could help you as you look for new volunteers.
Have a look at our Setting up and building teams webpage to think about the volunteering team structure and talk it through with your Group Lead Volunteer.