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Volunteering at Scouts is changing to help us reach more young people

Volunteering is changing to help us reach more young people

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Design a Scouts badge

Enter our competition to design a brand new badge.

How to take part 

We’re running a competition for young people to design a new badge! Use the information on this page to design your badge and send it to us online or via post to enter.

The chosen design will be used to create a new blanket badge that members will be able to buy from Autumn 2024. 

Design your badge

Your badge can be about any topic you’d like, it could be just for fun, or it could be about something that’s important to you. Whatever you decide, and however you want to design it, there are a couple of things to make sure you include.

The winning design will be turned into digital artwork so we can create the badge. It might mean that we make some small changes to your design, and we’ll need to make sure the colours used match our brand guidelines.

Competition entries are open, all entries must be submitted by midnight on the 31st July 2024.

You'll need to include:

  • The Scouts fleur-de-lis somewhere on the badge
  • Circular shape (the badge will be 7cm diameter)
  • Maximum of 8 colours
  • 'Nunito Sans’ font for any text (if you’re designing online!)
  • Name of your badge 
  • Information about your badge - Who’s it for? What would you have to do to complete it?

Don't forget to inform us of:

  • Your name  
  • Your section and Scout Group 
  • Name and email address of Section Volunteer, parent or guardian
  • Consent from parent or guardian to take part in the competition
A round, yellow badge with a light bulb in the middle, surrounded by small sparks.

Badge template

If you're drawing your design by hand, we've created a handy template to help.

Download the template

Information sheet

Check out these handy hints for creating your design.

Download the information sheet

Submit your design

There are a couple of ways to submit your badge idea to us. If you have access to a computer, the easiest way to submit the designs is through our online entry form. You'll just need to take a photo of, or scan in, your entry to upload. If you’re not able to submit you design online, you can send it to us in the post.

You'll need to read through the terms and conditions on this page before entering.

  1. The Competition is being run by The Scout Association a company incorporated by Royal Charter under registration no RC000547 and charity registered in England and Wales under registration no 306101 with its registered office at Gilwell Park, Chingford, London, E4 7QW (“TSA”) in collaboration with Scout Shops Ltd, a company registered under company number 1101498 with its registered office at Lancing Business Park, Lancing, West Sussex, BN15 8UG 

  1. To enter the Competition, submit your entry via the competition online form or through our postal address of:  

Badge competition – Programme Team
Gilwell Park
Bury Road
Chingford
E4 7QW 

  1. The entries must include a copy of the badge design. Your entry must be submitted between Tuesday the 7th May and before midnight on Wednesday 31st July. 

  1. Entry to the Competition is open to UK residents who are youth members of The Scout Association aged 4-24 (Member). If under the age of 16, entries can be submitted by a Scout Leader on behalf of Members, or by a Parent/Guardian of the member. In entering this Competition, the Scout Leader or Parent/Guardian is confirming that the Member is eligible to enter. 

  1. Eligible entries received will be entered into the competition and the winning entry will be judged across all Scout Group Sections. 

  1. Only one entry is allowed per Member. Multiple entries can be submitted per Scout Group on behalf of their Members. One winning prize will be awarded from entries submitted across all Scout Group Sections. 

  1. The prize winner will have their design made into a blanket badge which will be available to buy on the Scout Shops website.  

  1. We accept no responsibility for any late, lost or misdirected entries, including but not limited to your entry not being received due to technical disruptions, network congestion or any other reason. 

  1. TSA and Scout Shops will shortlist 5 eligible entries from the designs based on the quality of the design and the relevance to Young People, accessibility and the Scout programme. These 5 entries will then go to a public vote, using TSA social media platforms for volunteers and young people to vote for their favourite design. The winner will be decided by the entry that gains the most votes. 

  1. The Winner will be chosen in August 2024 and will be notified via email using the email address provided on the entry form. Before publishing the results, the Winner will be notified, and entrants shall be responsible for ensuring that the contact details they provide are up-to-date and accurate. You may be asked to confirm your Scout Group registration number. We will ask you if you object to us naming you as the winner. 

  1. If a Winner declines or forfeits, an alternative Winner will be selected by the Panel. 

  1. Competition entries and the name of the winning individual and their group will be published by TSA in publications and on their websites and any other media to promote the Competition and TSA’s charitable work. Please see the privacy information below about how we will use your name and personal data.  

  1. All the intellectual property - meaning the full right to own the entries, including the winning badge design will belong to TSA. If you win, you will have a right to use the design for your personal use and be recognised as the designer.   

  1. TSA cannot guarantee the return any original entries if they are not submitted electronically, or as copies, but we will do our best to return originals upon request. 

  1. TSA reserves the right to change any of these Terms and Conditions or to replace the Prize with an alternative Prize of equivalent value or cancel the Competition at any time at TSA’s discretion. Any change to the Terms and Conditions will be published on the TSA website and will be valid from the date of publication. Please check the website regularly for any updates in relation to the Competition. 

  1. No purchase is necessary to enter the Competition. 

  1. Entry into the Competition will be deemed to constitute acceptance of these Terms and Conditions. 

  1. The Scout Association’s decision is final and binding in all matters. 

  1. A failure by TSA to enforce any of these Terms and Conditions shall not give rise to any claim or right of action by any entrant or Winner, nor shall it be deemed to be a waiver of any of TSA’s rights in relation to the same.

  1. These Terms and Conditions are governed by English law, and the jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales. 

You are providing your name and contact details for the purpose of entering the competition. These will be stored securely and retained separately from your scout membership for a period of 1 year following the competition closure date for audit purposes. TSA will shortlist 5 entries alongside Scout Shops. Your details will not be shared with Scout Shops. TSA will contact the winners. Whilst TSA and Scout Shops will use the winning entry and the name of the winning Scout Group for publicity via social media channels, your full contact details will not be published. We intend to publish your name as the winner but will ask you if this fine with you before we do. For more information about how we use your data please see our Data Protection Policy https://www.scouts.org.uk/about-us/policy/data-protection-policy/ 

What personal information will you collect and store?   

For this competition we will need to collect some personal information about you (data which could identify you), this includes:  

  • Young person's name
  • Young person's section
  • Email address of Section Leader or Parent/Guardian
  • Name of Section Leader or Parent/Guardian
  • Group name
  • Group location data such as County/Region/Area  

We have asked for your consent to collect and handle your personal information in the entry form. Only the Scouts team will have access to your personal information. We are securely collecting and storing your data via two encrypted third-party apps called SmartSheet. You can read more about the Smartsheet data security policy here: https://www.smartsheet.com/trust/security. 

This is in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and UK data protection legislation. The data will be destroyed within one year after the competition ends, in July 2025. If you would like more information about the way we comply with data protection legislation, please get in touch on one of the emails below.  

Will my participation be anonymous and confidential?  

Your participation in the competition will be kept confidential to the Scouts project team, and only they will have access to your personal information. We will anonymise the data by removing your name and email address. Your entry and contact details will be retained for one year after the project ends. We will do our best to ensure your anonymity and keep your participation confidential. However, there may be limits to this, like if there are serious concerns about your safety or the safety of others.  

What are my rights?  

If you decide to take part in our competition you are still free to withdraw, modify your consent or withdraw your consent at any time, without giving a reason, by getting in touch with us. However, it may not be possible to remove your data from the competition once it has been anonymised. You have strong rights around your personal information under UK data protection legislation. To find out more see www.ico.org.uk/your-data-matters/. If you have any questions about how we use your data please contact Enquiries.DPO@Scouts.org.uk 

If you’re unhappy with the competition, please tell us so that we can sort it out. You will not get into trouble; it helps us keep you safe and improve how we work. You can make a complaint by emailing Enquiries.DPO@Scouts.org.uk. 

 

Further information

The competition is open to young people from any section, that's Squirrels, Beavers, Cubs, Scouts, Explorers and Network.   

We’ll need a contact email for an adult volunteer or parent/carer and can only accept one entry per young person – so if you’ve got a few ideas, pick your best one!

This competition is open to all our youth members, and everyone must give permission to enter the competition.

However for anyone aged 16 or under, a parent or guardian must give permission for them to enter. Please make sure that all entries have been signed before submitting them. Any un-signed entries will not be added into the competition.

If you're a volunteer and want to submit entries for a number of young people in your group, please make sure you do the following: 

  • Only submit one design per member.  
  • Make sure each entry is clearly labelled both on the paper and in the file name.  

Our online entry form only allows for a maximum of 10 file uploads. If you have more than 10 entries, you'll have to combine some of them into the same file, or complete the form more than once.

If you can't submit you design online, you can send it to us in the post, at the following address.  

Badge design competition

FAO: Programme Design Team  

Gilwell Park  

Bury Road  

Chingford  

E4 7QW 

Please make sure you leave enough time for it to get to us before the end of April. Include the following information along with your design, so we can get in touch if needed: 

  • Your name and the name of your Scout group  
  • County/Area/District/Region  
  • Section Volunteer, parent or carer name  
  • Section Volunteer, parent or carer email address

If you're designing a badge as part of your Scout meetings, you could link the creative activity it to one of these Activity Badges or Challenge Awards: 

If you’re making a digital version you could also count it towards Stage 1 of your Digital Maker Staged Activity Badge.  

It’s also a fun way to think about what activities you’d like to do at Scouts, and help shape your programme, for your YouShape Award.

If you’re creating your badge digitally, you can find information about Scout brand colours and fonts in our brand guidelines.  

A panel of UK Scout volunteers, young people and staff will help to narrow down all of the brilliant badge ideas. Once we’ve got a shortlist, we’re hoping to run a public vote, so everyone can get involved in choosing the winning design.

The winner will be announced in August 2024. We’ll then turn the design into digital artwork so we can create the real life badge!

We’re planning for the new blanket badge to be available to buy from Scout Store from Autumn 2024.   

All youth members in Scouts will be able to work towards the badge and display it on their badge blankets.

The different elements of a computer; including a monitor, keyboard, mouse and disc drive.

Send us your badge design online

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