Administration

Sponsorship

Please tell us if your group is sponsored. If you click yes, a box will be displayed asking you who your sponsor is. When you click on the button, it’ll go grey.

Partnership Agreement

Here you can tell us if you have a partnership agreement between your group and an Explorer Scout Unit. If you click yes, the button will go grey and a list of units in your district should appear. Please click on the relevant unit you have a partnership agreement with. Find more information on partnerships agreement here.

Special Status

Some groups have a ‘special status’, as per POR rule 4.9.5. If you click yes to this question, you’ll be presented with a list of options to indicate what category of special status your group falls into.

Waiting Lists

You’re asked to record the number of young people you have on joining lists for each section. This means the number of young people who are currently (on 31 January 2025) the right age to join that section – don’t record those who’re too young to join. We collect information about how many young people are interested in Scouts so that it can be used locally to inform our growth and development plans. It can help identify where new sections and Groups may be needed. In some areas the waiting list is managed by the District, and in other areas this is managed by Groups. If the Group or its sections primarily manage the waiting list, please click yes, and you will be presented with the fields to tell us how many young people are on your waiting list currently.

Additional Questions About Growth

We know that Scouts can have potentially life changing effects on young people and on their future outcomes, but we also know that there are still so many young people who can’t access Scouts due to lack of opportunities in their area. 

Growth will not happen without effective planning and Census is the perfect time to highlight potential opportunities based on the real time, up to date data submissions. 

This year, the figures you submit at Census may trigger additional questions: 

• Small Sections - If a Section has fewer than 12 young people you’ll be asked if you plan to grow it and when. 
• Missing Sections - If you have a missing Section we will ask if you plan on opening one and when.
• Waiting lists – If you record a waiting list of 12 or more young people, we will ask if you plan on opening an additional Section to match this need and when.

You’ll then be asked whether you would like to be considered for support if you plan to move forward with any of the suggestions above. 

The answers to these questions will then be reflected on the County/Area/Region Growth Plan. These plans reflect growth achievements and priorities while allowing us to forecast growth more accurately, and to monitor our progress on an ongoing basis to achieve our shared growth goals. 

These plans are living documents and are constantly being updated, so please don’t worry if circumstances change. You won’t be committing to anything at Census, but you will be starting a conversation which could lead to more opportunities for young people in your area.