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What we do

6-8 years
Make friends and try new indoor and outdoor activities

8-10½ years
Learn practical skills while having adventures with friends

10½-14 years
Build confidence, resilience and a sense of adventure

14-18 years
Take the lead, work together, and embrace new experiences

18-25 years
Hone employability skills and achieve top awards

Building
skills for life

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Character skills like resilience, initiative, independence and tenacity

Employability skills like leadership, teamwork and problem solving

Practical skills like coding, cooking and First Aid.

Volunteer news

Scouts and Raspberry Pi partner up for digital skills

Announcing our new strategy Skills for Life

The benefits of volunteering

Research confirms: Scouts strengthen communites

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Programme ideas

Digital Maker Staged Activity Badge

Planning your programme

Health and Fitness Activity Badge support

Badge support - Skills Challenge Awards

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Young people first: safeguarding and safety in Scouting

Our commitment to the safety of all our members

Safety training Planning and assessing risk InTouch contact process Emergencies and reporting Delivering safe Scouting

Yellow card: safeguarding code of good practice Orange card: a code of practice for Young Leaders Download safeguarding incident and concern reporting form Safeguarding training Safeguarding resources for parents

If you have any doubts please contact our Scout information centre: 0345 300 1818
Or for safeguarding concerns, contact our safeguarding team directly safeguarding@scouts.org.uk

Do more.
Learn more.
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How to light a fire...

Join and learn skills for life

What we do

Building
skills for life

Learn more about our plan

Character skills like resilience, initiative, independence and tenacity

Employability skills like leadership, teamwork and problem solving

Practical skills like coding, cooking and First Aid.

Volunteer news

Programme ideas

Young people first: safeguarding and safety in Scouting

Our commitment to the safety of all our members

Our partners

Do more.Learn more.Be more.

How to light a fire...

Join and learn skills for life

What we do

Volunteer news

Programme ideas

Young people first: safeguarding and safety in Scouting

Our commitment to the safety of all our members

Our partners

Do more.
Learn more.
Be more.