Take part in our Scout Activity Badge survey

This review will help us to make sure Scouts continues to be engaging, exciting and relevant for all young people across the UK and British Scouting Overseas (BSO) branches.

As part of our review, we want to get ideas and feedback from Scouts and volunteers about the current Activity Badges. This’ll help us to improve our existing badges and create new activities, so that Scouts better reflects the interests and likes of the young people in it.

We want Scouts from all over the UK to take part in providing feedback. Therefore, we’ve created this activity, to be run during a normal Scout session, to help young people tell us what they like and dislike about the programme. All this feedback will then play an important role in shaping the future of Scouts.   

Before you begin

• Use the safety checklist to help you plan and risk assess your activity. There's also more guidance to help you carry out your risk assessment, including examples.
• Make sure all young people and adults involved in the activity know how to take part safely.
• Make sure you’ll have enough adult helpers. You may need some parents and carers to help.

Planning and setting up this activity

• Make sure that the parents and carers of all young people taking part are aware of the activity. They must acknowledge or consent to their young person taking part. You can do this by sending a letter and we’ve attached one on this page.   
• This is only a short activity, so you could run it alongside our Design a Scout Badge activity.
• For those who may struggle to use a device or those without internet access, you could print off the questions, then have people write down or draw their answers. You can then record the answers, such as by taking photos, to submit later. You can submit them directly to the programme team via email to charly.o'brien@scouts.org.uk.

Running this activity

1. Gather everyone together and explain that you’re going to do a survey to provide feedback on the current Scouts Activity Badges to help improve the  Scouts programme.
2. Explain that everyone will have the opportunity to anonymously share their thoughts and opinions through a survey. There are 10 multiple choice questions. Their responses will be confidential and no personally identifiable information will be collected. People can also do it in pairs.
3. Set up the device in a safe space, away from any distractions, and open up the survey. An adult volunteer should be available to support anyone who may need help. Always follow the Yellow Card.
4. Once the device is ready, the first person can begin the survey. They should answer the multiple-choice questions honestly, based on their experiences and preferences. All feedback is valuable. They should take their time and consider each question carefully.
5. You may want to have a copy of a badge book or the current activity badges available. 
6. Once they have completed the survey, people should submit their responses.
7. At the end, thank everyone for their feedback. It’s valuable and will contribute to shaping the future of Scout activities.
8. You may wish to have a group discussion about what they thought, the badges they liked and disliked, the Scouts programme and the activities they’d like to do. You could potentially add their ideas to your next term’s programme.

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