Welcome to Scout Active Support
Scout Active Support provides a new way for adults to volunteer for The Scout Association in a flexible way.
Scout Active Support can do anything that supports Scouting. Below are a few examples:
Programme delivery to young people
A District Scout Active Support Unit could be a source of extra adult help in Leader absence. Or they could teach skills that the existing Leader team do not have, such as pioneering. The County Scout Active Support Unit could provide support to Explorer Scouts or the Scout Network when planning international expeditions. This could include fundraising.
Development of Scouting
- A Group Scout Active Support Unit could provide Training Advisers to all Leaders in the Scout Group. This could include delivering Module 1, Essential Information, to all new adults supporting the Group including parents.
- A District Scout Active Support Unit could provide catering at District events during the year. This could include District Sectional Camps, District Meetings and the District AGM.
What support is there for Scout Active Support?
Why Change? Quick Reference Guide Fellowship to Scout Active Support:
Your Quick Reference Guide
This is your comprehensive guide to the reasons behind the change, with information on managing the change where you are. Printed copies are also available free of charge from the Scout Information Centre.
Supporting the movement together
This is the essential document for Scout Active Support. You can download the PDF document for free, or order it from the Scout Information Centre for £2.30. Please note this is a black and white copy.
Scout Active Support eNews
Scout Active Support eNews Mar 2010Scout Active Support eNews Dec 2009
This email is sent out quarterly and contains information useful to the development and running of a Scout Active Support Unit. It is automatically sent to Regional Commissioners, County Commissioners (and equivalents), Assistant County Commissioner Scout Fellowship, Assistant Area Commissioner Scout Fellowship, Assistant District Commissioner Scout Fellowship and all Scout Active Support Managers. There is also a distribution list of people who have elected to receive this resource. If you would like to be added to this list, please email the Scout Active Support team. Scout Active Support factsheets
Factsheets
FS330097: Background to Scout Active SupportInformation on how Scout Active Support came into being.
FS330098: What is Scout Active Support?Information on what Scout Active Support can do.
FS330099: Membership of Scout Active Support Information on who can be a Member of a Scout Active Support unit
FS330100: How to start a Scout Active Support Unit How to start a Scout Active Support Unit - Guide for Group Scout Leaders, District Commissioners and County Commissioners.
FS330096: Scout Active Support - Service AgreementGuidance on producing a service agreement to show how the Unit will support local Scouting. /p>
Word version of service agreement template (Available soon).
Appointments Secretaries and the Transition
From 31st December 2010 all current Scout Fellowship roles (Chairman, Secretary, Treasurer, Assistant County Commissioner, Assistant District Commissioner and member) will be closed on www.scouts.org.uk.
Members of the Scout Fellowship who wish to continue to support Scouting must be registered as Scout Active Support members. This is particularly important if they hold no other active roles within Scouting.
Before you can add Scout Active Support members, a Scout Active Support Manager should be appointed and registered on www.scouts.org.uk. This role is an appointment of the Group Scout Leader, District Commissioner or County/Area/Regional Commissioner.
The process you put in place to change Scout Fellowship members to Scout Active Support members is up to you and we suggest that you discuss this with your District or County/Area/Regional Commissioner to decide on the most appropriate approach.
For some the most appropriate approach may be to request new AA forms as this will help to identify changes to individual records and any CRB checks that are required.
However, for others it may simply be an agreement that Scout Active Support Managers will send an updated list of members to the Appointments Secretary to be added to the database.
If you would like further support or practical advice about the transition then please do not hesitate to contact active.support@scouts.org.uk.
Is there any recruitment material for Active Support?
Is there any recruitment material for Active Support?
Visit The Scout Association’s one stop communications centre. It is there to help you create, personalise and print inspiring communications.
It’s perfect for:
learning about the ‘everyday adventure’ of Scouting accessing branded Word templates (check out the Tools and Resources/Download area) accessing the Scout logo (again, this is in the Tools and Resources/Download area – and much better to use than the old Scouts Logofont which will appear as an ‘S’ to anyone who does not have the font installed).
It also includes a print centre which allows you to create:
posters
flyers
invitations
banners
stationery.
To use the print centre, simply log in using your user name and password while in the communications centre. The print centre icon also appears in the my tools menu once you have logged in to scouts.org.uk
You have the option of printing the resources you create yourself or with a commercial print partner (the BPC Group).
We’ll be developing and adding new resources to this area over the coming months, so keep coming back for more.