Come and volunteer with us. It’s #GoodForYou!

We’ve all had our challenges over the past year, and we’re so glad that things are finally beginning to return to normal. Our weekly face-to-face meetings this term have been back, and our young people – and their families – have been telling us just how much happy they’ve been to have Scouts back in their lives.

But now, more than ever, we face the real challenge of making sure that we can keep our sections open as more and more people want to join us. We need more adult volunteers to help our Section Leadership team continue to do the great work they’re doing.

In the last year, we’ve taught young people (and their parents) how to use digital tools such as Zoom to stay together when we’re physically separated, we’ve all been taking part in virtual camps at home and camp under the stars as a Group even though we weren’t at the same campsite, and we’ve all learned how to do the amazing things we do even when we have to keep 2 metres apart from one another.

The number of adult volunteers in Scouting has taken a huge tumble nationally over the last 12 months, with our adult membership down by nearly 10,000 members, but demand for Scouting from people – not just in Warwick, Warwickshire and the West Midlands, but nationally – is rising. Our waiting list is growing on a weekly basis, and we want to continue to do our bit to grow the movement in Warwick by helping to welcome back those members who couldn’t join us online, couldn’t come back when we reopened our doors, and recruiting new members.

We can’t do this without you. We need section assistants, assistant section leaders, and parent helpers. Every single one of these roles is open to be shared by multiple people – so if you can’t make it every week, don’t worry! We can buddy you up with another volunteer to fill the role and help you lighten the load.

Volunteering with Scouts is good for your skills, it’s good for your CV, it’s good for your health and happiness, and it’s good for your family and community. We’re sad to be losing Emily, one of our longstanding volunteers, who’s moving to Devon in the coming weeks – but as a result of her volunteering, she’ll be making new friends and meeting new people as she joins up with 1st Ilfracombe and helps out with them.

Help us change young people’s lives for the better – take a look at our volunteering vacancies – do something that’s #GoodForYou too. Good for your health and happiness, god for developing skills, and good for making friends.

We’re here because of people like you – thanks for helping us be here!