Activity Permits

Adventurous Activity Permit Scheme

The adventurous activity permit scheme is an internal assessment scheme designed to ensure that all those leading adventurous activities for young people within Scouting have the skills, experience and personal suitability to do so.

For full details of the Activity Permit Scheme and which activities are covered - visit the UK Scout website.

Timescales

The Technical Assessment, can take a while to arrange, please allow at least 1 month

ACC (Permits) sends permit & form to DC to sign please return this to the ACC (Permits) and will post out the permit direct to the applicant.

Note:

Air activities and Shooting not included

Nights Away Permit Scheme

The Nights Away Permit Scheme promotes quality residential and camping experiences. It shows that all those leading nights away events for young people within Scouting have the skills, experience and personal suitability to take young people away safely.

It is designed so that it can be tailored to be as flexible as possible, while at the same time providing a robust checking process for leaders of nights away events. The permit should be seen as an enabling device to show a person’s competence and provide reassurance to parents of the young people, while at the same time encouraging adults to acquire and improve the skills required to provide residential experiences.

Everyone who leads a nights away event for young people within Scouting is required to hold a Nights Away Permit for the type of event they are running.

Although managed locally, the Nights Away Permit Scheme is a national scheme, so once gained, a permit will allow you to run a nights away event in any District or County.

Event Passports

Full details of the Nights Away Permit Scheme can be found on the UK Scout Website.

To encourage young people led residential events, such as patrol camps or Explorer Scout expeditions, when you hold a nights away permit you can grant a nights away passport to an under 18 year old. It will allow the young person to lead a residential event with no Leaders present and will last for a single event.

Before granting a permit you will need to check that you are happy that the young person has the skills to lead that event safely and successfully, as you remain responsible for the event. The young person given the passport will be leading the event, so it can not be given if there will be Leaders present running the event who are looking for a way around the Rules as they do not have permits.