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Activity Permit Scheme

This internal assessment scheme is designed to make sure that all those leading adventurous activities for young people within Scouting have the skills, experience and personal suitability to do so.

Interim process for when Compass goes offline

This process will be impacted by Compass going offline for everyone from Thursday 7 November. For details on how this process is impacted and what you'll need to do instead, please take a look at our interim processes.

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Adventurous Activity Permit Scheme

The Adventurous Activity Permit Scheme is an internal assessment scheme designed to make sure that all those leading adventurous activities for young people within Scouting have the skills, experience and personal suitability to do so. 

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Adventurous Activity Permit Scheme - Activity Assessors

This page provides a guide to those wishing to become an Activity Assessor to assess applicants for adventurous activity permits. 

Find out about Activity Assessors

A Clear Process

A Clear Process is a resource that aims to explain how to access adventurous activities within Scouting and how you could work towards providing more experiences. 

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Manager of the Activity Permit Scheme (MAPS)

The Manager of the Activity Permit Scheme (MAPS) in each county (or area (Cymru) or region (Scotland)) is a way of identifying who is responsible for the management of the activity permit scheme locally. 

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Moderation

This guidance is designed to help MAPS (Managers of the Activity Permit Scheme) and County / Area (Cymru) / Region (Scotland) (from now on referred to as County)  Lead Volunteers with the self moderation of the adventurous activity permit scheme within their County.

Learn more about moderation

Activity Permit Scheme FAQ's

Frequently asked questions for the Activity Permit Scheme. 

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Useful resources

 

The Permits and Training Fund

The Permits and Training Fund

We've joined forces with Dacia to make adventure affordable and accessible to young people throughout the UK. 

We want to help young people take part in adventurous activities. This grant can be put towards the cost of young people and volunteers gaining adventurous activity permits.