Scouts are do-ers and give-it-a-go-ers. Yes, we go camping, hiking and more.

But, we also get to hang out with our friends every week – having fun, playing games, working in a team and taking on new challenges.

Every week we give all our Beavers, Cubs and Scouts the skills they need for school, college, university, the job interview, the important speech, the tricky challenge and the big dreams: the skills they need for life.

Everyone’s welcome here. All genders, races and backgrounds. Regardless of your young person’s physical ability – there’s a Scout adventure out there waiting for them. And we’ll help them find it.

Keeping children and young people safe is our number one priority. Here are some of the ways we do this:

• Volunteers have a criminal records check as part of safer recruitment.
• Volunteers must undertake written risk assessments for all activities within Scouts.
• Adult members take mandatory safety and safeguarding learning every three years.
• All adults must follow our Safeguarding Code of Conduct (Yellow Card) and Safeguarding Policy.
• All safeguarding concerns are reported to our UK HQ Safeguarding Team, who are trained to manage concerns and work with the police and other authorities.

Safety at Scouts

We continuously assess our policies to keep Scouts as safe as possible. This includes implementing changes based on reviews of our risk assessment process.

Learn how we do things safely

Safeguarding Code of Conduct for Adults

As Scouts, we’ve a clear code of behaviour we expect everyone to abide by, known as the ‘Yellow Card’. This code is shared with all adults who interact with young people, regardless of their role, and it’s included in the learning volunteers receive.

Read the Yellow Card

Reporting non-recent abuse

We appreciate the bravery it takes to consider speaking out about your experience. If you were abused while you were under 18 and in Scouts, we want to know and we want to offer support.

Whether you’re an animal lover or an avid reader, an inspired photographer or a budding chef, you name it, we’ve got a badge for it – over 200 of them, actually. 

Scouts work together on badges at their weekly meetings, away at camps, on events or they can do them at home. There’s never any pressure to do badges, so Scouts can do as many or as few as they like. Badges are easy to earn and, for lots of them, you don’t need anyone special to sign them off.

For those up for a challenge, there are loads of exciting badges to aim for and our easy to follow overview shows the range of badges and awards available, along with a simplified visual of their uniform placement.

OSM Scout Manager is an online tool designed to help manage and organise Scouting groups, including Beavers, Cubs, and Scouts.

For parents, it provides a simple way to stay informed about your child’s activities, events, and progress within the group.

Parents can use OSM to sign up for events, keep information up to date, track badges, make payments and receive important updates from leaders, making it easier to stay involved and connected with your child’s Scouting journey.