What is Scouting?
Scouting offers challenge and adventure to 400,000 young people aged 6 to 25 in the UK and over 7,000 young people in Buckinghamshire. We believe in helping our members fulfill their potential by working in teams, learning by doing and thinking for themselves.
We’re passionate about what we do.
Through the adventure of Scouting, young people get to take risks in a safe environment, and have their first taste of responsibility. We give young people experiences they’ll never forget. The sort of adventure Scouting offers is the chance to experience something different and the opportunity to challenge yourself. When a Beaver Scout wakes up the morning after a sleepover or a Cub Scout has just got over her fear of heights by completing her first abseil – that’s adventure. What is Scouting?
In Scouting, we provide over 200 activities from abseiling to zorbing (that’s falling out of the sky in a foam ball in case you were wondering). If we don’t have an instructor who can help we can normally find someone who can. But Scouting isn’t just about activities for their own sake. We encourage young people to feel the buzz of the challenge and then reflect on what that means. Did they have fun? Do they feel more confident? Would they do it again?
All this is made possible by the efforts of 100,000 voluntary adult leaders in the UK and 1,400 in Bucks. With award winning training and one-to-one support, we make sure that each one of our volunteers gets to make the best use of their skills and talents. It’s something different from the norm, and that’s what a lot of people like it. In fact, it’s what made us the largest co-educational youth movement in the country.
Our Mission Statement
We believe that through adventure we challenge individuals so that they learn and experience new things that enrich their lives.
The Aim of the Association is to promote the development of young people in achieving their full physical, intellectual, social and spiritual potential, as individuals, as responsible citizens and as members of their local, national and international communities.
The Method of achieving the Aim of the Association is by providing an enjoyable and attractive scheme of progressive training, based on the Scout Promise and Law, and guided by adult leadership.
The Scout Promise and Law
On my honour,
I promise that I will do my best,
To do my duty to God and to the Queen,
To help other people,
And to keep the Scout law.
The Scout Law
A Scout is to be trusted.
A Scout is loyal.
A Scout is friendly and considerate.
A Scout belongs to the world-wide family of Scouts.
A Scout has courage in all difficulties.
A Scout makes good use of time and is careful of possessions and property.
A Scout has self-respect and respect for others.
