The Scouts new YouShape Award has launched today! 5th October!
The YouShape Award makes it even easier to embed being youth shaped into your programme. At the same time, it’ll help young people work with their leaders to learn leadership skills that they’ll use for the rest of their lives.
At Scouts, young people learn how to speak up and take the lead. But they told us that the programme didn’t recognise this enough. That’s what the new YouShape Award is all about.
The award is split into four badges. Young people will earn the central badge first and then choose the order they earn the rest. They can choose which requirements (and how many) as well as what they want to do, and work with their leader to decide when they’ve met each requirement.
The elements of each badge are:
Central badge – This badge is all about thinking about what you want to achieve, setting a goal and making it happen.
Plan – This badge is all about thinking creatively, working together and planning some exciting activities for your proramme.
Lead – Now it’s time to take the lead – think supporting others, delivering your programme and nights away.
Represent – Think about how you’ll represent your group – you could engage your community, invite some friends to join the fun or chat to your Executive Committees.
There is much more information about the award on the HQ Website as well as an overview from Ollie and his team below!
There is lots of information and support out there to enable you to give it a go! Jenson our County Youth Commissioner has put together some bits to assist!