Scouts from all the Groups in Petersfield District are taking part in a new award that has been rolled out nationally. The You Shape Award is designed to give Scouts a say in how their groups, and even district are run.

The Award consists of four parts, a centre badge where Scouts start their project, they have to think of one thing their Troop does that they think can be improved and change it. Quite a tricky task for some Troops that are really well run to start with, but hey, its not supposed to be easy!

Next on the list is PLAN. Here the Scouts are challenged to plan a specific task. Theres lots to choose from, but one group of Scout’s are planning a cinema trip for the whole Group of Beavers, Cubs and Scouts. Sounds great to me.

Then we come to LEAD. Leadership skills are at the very centre of Scouting, and one group of Scouts are planning the very pinnacle of their Scout camping experiance. A night away with no adults present. Obviously there’s lots of hoops to jump through, and it’s very much work in progress, but hopefully early next year we should have an Event Passport issued for the team.

So with all these exciting actvities on the go, what better for the final segment the REPRESENT. A chance for them to shout about what they are doing. We will get that done in a bit, firstly we need to do the exciting stuff, then we can tell you all about it!

More coming up soon about this in the near future!