Achieving your King's Scout Award in Gloucestershire
The King’s Scout Award
A chat over dinner between Baden-Powell and King Edward VII led to the creation of the King’s Scout award in 1909. It has run ever since, changing to the Queen’s Scout award in 1952, and back to the King’s Scout Award in 2023, It is the highest award a Scout can achieve.
The royal link continues – achieve the King’s Scout Award and you will be invited to the annual celebration at Windsor Castle.
Here are the latest recipients at this year’s Windsor Parade – Alex Hawkins, Ruby Gardner and Alexandra Jenkins.
King’s Scouts in Gloucestershire
If you are looking to achieve your KSA or need information about supporting young people completing their award please contact our King’s Scout Award Co-ordinator Andrew via
Achieving your King’s Scout Award
There are four main areas; Membership, Nights away, International, community and values activities, and Challenges.
Don’t expect it to be easy, as it is scouting’s biggest challenge for youth members. You can work towards the award between 16 and 25 years of age, in explorer scouts and/or in network scouts.
The Challenges can be signed off if you hold the Gold DofE award. To complete the award, you do a presentation to an authorised signatory* before sign-off.
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Let us know you’re interested
If you are interested in completing the award, please complete the following information and a member of the County Team will be in touch with you. The County Team will then arrange a discussion with you about starting the award, and provide you with assistance and mentoring along your adventure.
Whilst you can back-date some of your activities to your 16th birthday, get yourself registered early so you’re sure what is expected of you. You may feel the deadline of your 25th birthday is way off, but don’t be caught out, fill in the form now and support will be on its way.
The award process
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*Authorised Signatories
The following Commissioners are those normally authorised to sign off the King’s Scout Award in Gloucestershire.
- under 18 – The Assistant County Commissioner (Explorer Scouts)
- 18 or older – The County Scout Network Commissioner
When neither of the above Commissioners are available to sign off the Deputy County Commissioner (Programme) or County Commissioner will act in their place.