Skills for Life: Our plan to prepare better futures 2018-2025
Contents
- Welcome from our Chair
- Resurging, innovating, and bringing people together
- Better volunteering for a stronger movement
- Our purpose and method
- Vision and strategic objectives
- Skills for Life: Our plan to prepare better futures 2018-2025
- Growth
- Inclusivity
- Youth Shaped
- Community Impact
- Three pillars of work
- Programme
- People
- Perception
- Theory of Change
- The impact of Scouts on young people
- Our finances
- Trustees’ responsibilities
- Independent Auditor’s Report to the Trustees of The Scout Association
- Consolidated statement of financial activities
- Balance sheet
- Statements of cash flows
- Our members
- How we operate
- Governance structure and Board membership – 1 April 2021 to 31 March 2022
- Our advisers
- Our thanks
- Investors in People
Skills for Life: Our plan to prepare better futures 2018-2025
Our vision
By 2025, we’ll have prepared more young people with skills for life, supported by amazing leaders delivering an inspiring programme.
We’ll be growing, more inclusive, shaped by young people and making a bigger impact in our communities.
Our mission
Scouting actively engages and supports young people in their personal development, empowering them to make a positive contribution to society.
Our values
We act with care, respect, integrity, cooperation, exploring our own and others’ beliefs.
Our goals
By delivering this plan, we’ll achieve the following goals against our four objectives:
Growth
- 547,000 young people aged 4–18
- 88,000 front line volunteers
- 19,500 Young Leaders
Inclusivity
- 500 more sections open in areas of deprivation
- The number of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic adult volunteers will reflect wider society with a minimum target of 5%
Youth Shaped
- 66% of young people aged 6–18 shape their experience at Scouts each year
- 57% of young people use their skills to run Scouting activities for other young people
- 40% of young people aged 4–14 achieve top awards;
- 10% of those 14+ achieve top awards
Community Impact
- At least 42% of young people making a positive impact in their community each year
- 40% of young people 4–14 will achieve top Awards
- 10% of young people 14+ will achieve top Awards
Our three pillars of work
To support the movement to achieve these objectives, we will focus on three pillars of work:
Programme
A fun, enjoyable, high quality programme consistently delivered and supported by simple (digital) tools.
People
More, well trained, better supported and motivated adult volunteers, and more young people from diverse backgrounds.
Perception
Scouts is understood, more visible, trusted, respected and widely seen as playing a key role in society today.
'Louis became a Beaver as soon as he was old enough and he's thrived from the start. It's a place where he feels comfortable and has the same opportunities as his peers. He gains important time away from us where he can be independent, and still feel safe and secure. We've been amazed by his confidence and the way he joins in with everything.'