Event Safety and Planning

Discover a handy chart, which maps the basic planning process and shows who has responsibility for each stage. It can act as a template for the information you may want to share in order for your event plans to be approved by the relevant Lead Volunteers or Trustee Board.

These pages include guidance on bouncy castles, firework safety, party and fiesta tent guidance, and keeping members safe during hot and cold weather.

Check out the information on safe storage, preparation and delivery of food. Whether cooking with your group, on camp or as part as a fundraising event, read our guidance on food safety.

With a few simple guidelines your digital assets (photography, video and audio) of activities and events will ensure you protect others, while creating great content to help promote Scouts.

We've been working with the National Counter Terrorism Security Office (NaCTSO), who recently launched the Act for Youth Campaign. This campaign helps to educate young people on what to do in the event they are caught up in an incident. 

Alcohol raises a number of issues, both for young people and for volunteers. Our guidance and the Green Card deals with the questions that alcohol might raise in a Scouts environment.

If you're using contractors to work on your event, you have responsibilities to ensure they operate safely.