Adult Volunteers
Do you enjoy the great outdoors? Has your job been affected by Covid through reduced hours or even redundancy? Are you now working from home and have a bit more time to devote to interests and hobbies than when you were commuting? Are you seeing the negative impact of lockdown in your community and want to help change things for the better? Maybe you (and/or your parents or other relatives) are semi or fully retired and want to put something back? Maybe you have children who are students and you want to encourage them to boost their CV, or they’re doing their Duke of Edinburgh Award and need to find a volunteer role?
If you (or anyone you know) said yes to any of these, our 7 local Scout Groups (young people aged 6-14 years) and our 2 Explorer Scout groups (14-18 years) could use your time, skills and help! With over 100 youngsters on waiting lists for Haslemere’s various Beaver, Cubs and Scouts sections, the District Team wants to make it possible for them to benefit from scouting as well.
And you’ll benefit too! Whether it’s something to add to your (or your teenager’s) CV while you or they job hunt, or learning new knowledge and skills to take into an existing role, getting involved in scouting will bring you ‘skills for life’: https://youtu.be/cMGyuucCmuY
You’ll also be positively impacting the lives of your local youngsters – getting them off their screens and sofas, learning new skills, building confidence and resilience, and helping turn them into resourceful, useful and valued members of society at a time when lives have been turned upside down by Covid-19 and everyone is only too aware of the mental health impacts the pandemic has brought.
The other good news is that you don’t need to be Bear Grylls to join us! You also don’t need to have been a Scout when you were younger. You don’t even need to know how to put up a tent. Our door is open to people of all ages, genders, races and backgrounds. We’re only able to change lives because people like you lend a hand – whether it’s for an hour a week, an hour a month or an hour every few months. We’re talking about record keepers, organisers, refreshment makers, activity planners and skill sharers. Mini bus drivers and first aiders. Students who want to boost their CVs and parents or grandparents who volunteer on activity nights so they can spend more quality time with their children or grandchildren.
Whatever your skillset, please consider lending a hand for as little or as much time as you can spare, and we promise you’ll get more out than you put in. There is great guidance, support and training available for all roles so if you haven’t done it before, we can help get you there.
No two Scout events, roles or activities are the same – whether you’re helping a leader to run an activity, ensuring our volunteers’ training is up to date, organising an overnight adventure, helping get new volunteers on board, or buttering 120 slices of bread for a group of hungry 11 year olds! The difference you make and the rewards, though, are always huge. We provide the training and support, you show up, get stuck in, and make memories for life. Sounds fun? Worthwhile? It is!
Here are some of the interesting and important roles locally – some at District level and some at local Group level. Some require an ‘in person’ commitment while others can be done in your spare time from the comfort of your own home. However, all are vital for scouting to serve and benefit our local young people. We currently have 300+ youngsters involved in our local Beaver, Cubs, Scouts and Explorer Scouts sections, but with another 100+ on waiting lists, we need more volunteers to expand our sections and programmes and to also free up our frontline teams from admin so they can focus on delivering scouting.
