Volunteers Week - Tuesday

Young Leaders too, on a mission to give a little extra zing to section meetings and test out their own leadership star qualities. You are a really important part of our leader teams and we’re grateful that you step up and take part.

Follow the links to find out more about being a young leader and the missions you can complete.

If you want to find out more about helping your young leader be the best they can be click here.

It's not always easy to see how Adventurous Activities can be experienced when we are not meeting outdoors or face to face but we've found a couple of ideas that might help you get your young people out into the middle of the action even sooner when the time comes.


International visits and trips have been difficult to continue in the current time. You can read here on the current status of events and trips, find out about future plans or find out more about how you can get involved or help your young people prepare for international trips. 


At a first glance it is difficult to see how our usual Programme can continue when we’re all staying at home but in fact, a great number of the requirements for activities, challenges and top awards can be completed behind front doors.

 Scouts UK have launched Scouts at Home, The Great Indoors and the staged indoor activity badge that can be earned by members and non-members perhaps helping you advertise for and take in a few extra online members.

 Other Scout groups and counties are developing their online programmes - Basingstoke East and South London Scouts among them. Some offer uniform badges for their own county but for Lincolnshire members these are for camp blankets to record part of the scouting story.

Lincolnshire Scouts are beginning to populate an area in Workplace with ready made social media posts you can simply copy and paste onto Facebook groups to highlight areas of the programme you might want your sections to complete towards badges and Top Awards. More details to follow in your next update.

Each post will indicate the section badge that is being covered, text that can be sent directly to your youth members and comments to advise which badge requirements can be achieved by those who engage with that post. This is quite a new initiative but check back regularly to see what has been added and feel free to add some of your own if you have already had success suggesting badge activity over social media.   

For instruction on how to sign up to workplace visit the Digital Support page on the website and feel free to add posts of your own with activities that you have enjoyed.

If you are having any problems using the new technical tools, need help getting started or have a question or suggestion, please register and submit your details on the servicedesk.


For those of you using OSM (Online Scout Manager) the OSM Badges at Home resources can help you communicate and share activities that can be enjoyed at home.

Did you know that subscriptions for Gold OSM are now being paid by Lincolnshire Scouts? If you haven’t yet moved onto the county agreement, please contact the county office for instruction on how to do this and, if you renewed after 1st August 2019, how you can claimback costs.


If you haven’t signed up for OSM yet, please contact the county office to find out how to do this, save time and change the way you complete your admin for the better, for good.   

We’re also going to try some county webinars on programme topics to share resources and discuss ideas. We’ll be glad to know whether you find these useful. Look out for more details in your next update.


In the Scouts member emails you will have seen a request to make sure you are up to date with Mandatory Training. It is essential that you are up to date with your Mandatory Training, click here to review the request from UK Chief Commissioner Tim Kidd.

If you are not receiving member emails please check your contact details are up to date on Compass. If you are not able to log in to Compass please speak with your line manager who will help you access your record. The next All Member Call is on 24th June and will have useful updates on national Scouting.


You maybe have received recently, or may soon receive, an email from the Scout Association advising you that your DBS check is overdue and non-completion could lead to your membership being suspended.

Please disregard this message and any subsequent reminders.

Early in March the decision was made to stop DBS checking to relieve the pressure on the local Police service and Scout Association staff who are working from home. No members will be suspended in the current situation but checks will restart when face to face Scouting returns.

Unfortunately, it was not possible to reprogram the membership admin system to stop sending these emails but you are assured your membership status is secure.


Sometimes our leaders are also looking to brush up their Skills. We’re starting a new area on the website called 60 Second Skills. Short sharp videos and tips that will give an opportunity to dip in and out of different skill areas, pick up ideas and hone your own talents. So far you will find factsheets from HQ, resources from Scout Adventures and Lincolnshire videos on the first of our topics – Bushcraft. We’ll be adding topics over the coming weeks. If there is a particular hint, tip or hack that you think will be of interest to other members either send us your idea, a link to a video or your own short video (1 or 2 mins) and we’ll add it to the website.

During our Scouting activities we find out a whole lot of useful information. Some of it is from the things that go really well and some is from the things that could have gone better. To gain all we need to know for ourselves would take a lifetime but collectively we can pool that experience and every day become a little better than we were before. The new Shared Experience area on the website will give you some neutral statements based on leader learning that can help you expect the unexpected and boost your risk assessments.