Category: Tips for Leaders
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Scout Badge Shop Plugin
Categories: Tips for LeadersI wanted to “sell” badges – both internally to our team leaders and excess stock to other users. David Breakwell has created a useful tool to quickly upload badges and get them working with a WooCommerce plugin for your website. This got the products in and I was able to add in the stock we…
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One Hundred Scouts
Categories: Tips for LeadersThis is a lovely article that could be used for recruitment. It may be out of date now and I do not have the original source. The Busy Scouter Of any 100 children who become Scouts, it is highly probable that 30 will drop out in their first year. Perhaps this may be regarded as…
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Payments in 2024 – by card, no less!
Categories: Tips for LeadersMost of us volunteering for charity do so as a hobby, to give back. We don’t often consider the cost and rarely claim back what we have spent enjoying our hobby. I was like that, then life changed, and I couldn’t afford to do anything. Let alone give more of my weekends camping, not if…
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Too Many Volunteers
Categories: Tips for LeadersHang on; this is a post on the recruitment topic. How can he write “Too many volunteers?” Simple. Each and every volunteer you recruit needs to feel cherished and valuable. I have seen (on too many occasions) a line of volunteers along the side of a hall with nothing today and looking fed up. How…
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How I Invest New Beavers, Cubs or Scouts
Categories: Tips for LeadersThere are many ways to invest new members and not one definitive one. This is my take on it, so please use the bits you like, make suggestions in the comments and share with your fellow Scouters. Begin by getting your colony, pack or troop into their horseshoe as if starting or ending the meeting.…
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What help do you need?
Categories: Tips for LeadersThis is a simple statement that we are all guilty of racing past! Who would volunteer to be a “Leader” or “Committee Member” without any more explanation? Not many people. If you can answer those clearly and positively, you’ve got the basis for an excellent advert.
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Key People
Categories: Tips for LeadersThis is an excellent item for your noticeboard, newsletter or website.. I’m afraid I don’t have the source but it might make someone realise how useful they could be in your group The Busy Scouter NOTICX TO ALL PARXNTS XvXn though this typXwritXr is an old modXl, it works quitX wXll XxcXpt for onX of…
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How to make an old laptop (or PC) faster
Categories: Tips for LeadersHas your scout group been given an old laptop or PC which is slow? This guide will help you to make it faster.
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Scout Record Card
Categories: Tips for LeadersEvery once in a while I need to produce a record card for a Scout’s Challenge badge progress. Many moons ago, someone created a clever spreadsheet to take OSM data and do just that. I lost that years ago, but today I created a new one. If this proves useful to you, please let me…
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Do Scout leaders have to wear uniform?
Categories: Tips for LeadersScout leaders generally wear a uniform here in the UK. Most groups will provide a shirt, trousers and belt for leaders, or at least reimburse the cost for buying them yourself. Historically, uniform was difficult to size but recent reports suggest that the sizing guides are easy to work with and to find the appropriate…