All of these badge requirements are suggestions and alternatives can be substituted by leaders and young people. This award is designed to be very flexible. Requirements can also be adapted to suit each young persons abilities. We’ve tried to link the requirements to other Scout badges to make it easy to build into your programme.
Beavers+
Complete ~3 Challenges
• Help with something at home (Great Indoors : social action Stage 1 element 5).
• Have a look at the requirements for the disability awareness badge (ask your family or leaders to help develop something about mental health and well-being).
• When you do the disability awareness badge, think about how people with disabilities think about their well-being. (Disability awareness)
• Think about whether your colony could link to local care homes or services e.g., care for care homes, recipe swap, age friendly etc (follow the guidance to make this appropriate and safe). (Community Impact: stage 1, Great Indoors: community engagement stage 1 element 4, My World Challenge elements 1 and 2)
• Teach someone a game or a skill (Sports element 5, Skills)
• Be a buddy, lodge leader or peer supporter (Teamwork)
• Say thank you when you remember. (Teamwork)
• Give a toy you don’t use anymore to some who might like it. (Teamwork)
• Look after an animal, giving it food and exercise. (Animal Friend 2)
• Complete an activity to help people in the community. (Teamwork, Community impact)
• Show that you are a good friend. (Teamwork)
• Say thank you as often as you can.
• Decorate some cakes or biscuits and give them to someone to say thank you. (My Skills 5c)
• Make your bed for at least 3 days. (My Skills 5f)
• Keep your bedroom tidy for at least 3 days. (My Skills 5g)
Cubs+
Complete ~5 Challenges
• Do a random act of kindest every day for a week (Our World item 2, Community impact)
• Send a card to 5 people to say thank you for something you are grateful for (Our World item 2, Communicator item, Community impact)
• Make a meal for someone as a way of saying thank you (Chef item 4, Community impact, Home help item 1)
• Give a few hours of your time to help better the community e.g., litter pick in the local park (Our World item 2, Community impact)
• Help complete a job around your house (Our Skills item 4, Home help)
• Have a clear out of your toys and donate the ones you don’t use anymore to charity (Community impact)
Scouts+
Complete ~7 Challenges
• Achieve community impact level 3 (Community Impact)
• Plan and run a fundraising event for a local charity of your choice (World 2, Fundraising)
• Learn about a local charity and volunteer your time with them (World 2)
• ‘Skills swap’
• Pay it forward campaign.
• Run an activity for a younger section (Team Leader)
• Peer mentorship
• Adopt a local scheme (Community Impact)
• Plan a menu for your family for a weekend and cook and serve at least one of the meals. Clear away afterwards. (Chef 1, 4 & 5, Creative 1, Skills 4b&4d)
• Help your family to do the food shopping and put away the purchases., (Chef 2)
• Help the warden at a Scout campsite for five days (Activity Centre Service 1)
• Make an item out of wood, metal, plastic, or fabric and give it to someone as a gift, (Craft, Creative 1)
• Make and decorate a cake as a gift, (Craft, Creative 1)
• Spend a day volunteering with and finding out about a service in your local community., (World 2)
• Do the washing using a washing machine. Hang them out to dry, our use a drier, and put away the clothes, (Skills 4d)
• Iron your school shirts, (Skills 4f)
• With your family sort out your house and donate anything you don’t need or use, (Community impact)
Explorers, Network and Leaders
Complete ~10 Challenges
• Plan and run a fundraising event for a local charity of your choice (Fundraiser)
• Learn about a local charity and volunteer your time with them
• ‘Skills swap’
• Pay it forward campaign (Community Impact)
• Run an activity for a younger section (Young Leaders, Platinum Award)
• Achieve community impact level 3
• Adopt a local scheme (Community Impact)
• Volunteer at a district activity centre
