Help give young people opportunities to shape their Scouting! Looking for a new challenge? Passionate about developing the voice of young people? Wanting to develop your management and communication skills? 18-25? Yes? Well then you may be the person we are looking for! Gloucestershire Scouts are looking for enthusiastic young adults to apply for the […]
Let’s Represent! Hello Gloucestershire Scouts! Welcome to the fourth and final of Our #YouShape months. This month is all about Represent. Represent is considered to be the most challenging of the #YouShape awards, and for the same reasons why it is challenging is possibly the most important. This badge is all about young people taking […]
Leading the way! The final week of the Lead badge, and we hope you’ve led the way for Youth Shaped scouting in Gloucestershire! Over the last month, we have shared activities based on you leading the way through Beavers, Cubs, Scouts and Explorers, from talking about your favourite hobby (mine is the cinema for those […]
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Turning your plans into reality So that’s the end of the plan month! We hope you had fun and learned new planning skills and ideas. We have had a story from a Beaver colony who have been working their way through the badges and would like to share what they have been up to! To […]
Easter planning? Add some YouShape! For a lot of leaders, Easter is used as a time to plan the programme over the summer period. If you’re stuck for ideas, run a Unit Forum on your first week back to get some ideas from the young people. Why not include YouShape as a part of the […]
…the start of the next! April leads into our second YouShape award month. This time focusing all around the plan badge. For those who have seen our resources on the central badge, the plan badge begins building on the ideas from the young people and creating actionable steps to make their ideas reality. Plan is […]
The end of one month… It’s the end of the central badge month! We have seen lots of activities and ideas this month for how you can help your young people achieve the YouShape central badge. Our Youth Commissioners have also been getting involved, here’s what Sam Gilchrist (DYC, Tewkesbury) said: ‘After doing some youth […]
YouShape – Keep MARCH-ing on! Week 3 of March and the Central Badge – it’s been a blast! How are you all getting on? We hope you’ve found the activity examples useful! Let us know on our social media pages! We thought for this update, we would share a story about running this badge, and […]
YouShape – where do we start? Hello Gloucestershire Scouts! Welcome to the first of our You Shape months where we will be giving you help and guidance in achieving your You Shape Badge! These months are being planned by all the County and District Youth Commissioners in Gloucestershire so ask your local one if you […]