Module J – Awards and Badges

Membership and Moving-On Awards

• Membership Badge - presented when you have taken your promise and become a Member of The Scout Association

• Moving-On Award - presented when you successfully move from one Section to the next.

Participation Awards (known as Joining in Badges in younger Sections)

• Shows how many years you have been in Scouting (6 – 18 year age range)

Activity Badges/Staged Activity Badges• Requirements listed on Scoutbase and in

the Section Programmes resource• Six Staged Activity badges • Activity plus badges for Scouts and

Explorers

Beavers 12x Cubs 33x Scouts 69x Explorer 28x Staged 6x

Partnership Awards all Sections

• Three Awards• Joint activities between two or more Sections

or an appropriate external organisation

Challenges Beaver, Cub & Scout• More of a “challenge” than activity badges• Requires more effort and more diverse skills

than a single activity badge• Easy to achieve from a well balanced

programme

Beavers 6x Cubs 7x Scouts 9x

Award Schemes Explorer & Network• Chief Scout’s

– Bronze (Beavers)

– Silver (Cubs)

– Gold (Scouts)

– Platinum Award (Explorer Scouts)• linked to Bronze D of E Award

– Diamond Award• linked to Silver D of E Award

– Queen Scout’s Award• linked to Gold D of E

More info – where can you go?All the information you have seen in this presentation is

available in more detail from…

• www.scouts.org.uk

• All the Section resources

• Your Explorer Scout Leader (Young Leaders)

• The Leaders of the Section you are working with

• It is really important that you are comfortable with the content of the Section you are working with.