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So that scouting across South London is as diverse as the communities in which we live we will:

  1. Promote scouting at diverse events
  2. Have a better understanding of the diversity of the Royal Borough of Greenwich, Lewisham, Southwark, Lambeth and Wandsworth
  3. Support groups and units in ensuring that scouting reaches all sectors of the communities we serve
  4. Provide inclusion‐related workshop opportunities
  5. Promote opportunities to work with expert external organisations in the area of diversity
  6. Support adult volunteers working with young people from diverse backgrounds
  7. Support the recruitment and retention of adult members from diverse backgrounds

To ensure that we effectively recruit new volunteers across the county we will:

  1. Provide tools and resources that help reinforce our messages around flexible volunteering
  2. Provide tools and resources to help groups and units target key audiences such as parents and former youth members
  3. Reach out to new audiences like 18–25 year olds not involved in scouting
  4. Provide ‘effective adult recruitment workshops
  5. Support our districts to improve the conversion rates of volunteer expressions of interest to leaders and supporters
  6. Advertise examples of flexible volunteering
  7. Develop a toolkit to help explore ways to use active support units more creatively at all levels
  8. Support districts to raise the profile of the new adult welcome champion role and recruit someone to carry out the role for their district
  9. Ensure that all groups and units have an identified adult welcome champion that any adult volunteer enquiries for the group/unit can be sent to
  10. Promote opportunities to get involved to adults registered on Compass as occasional helpers
  11. Provide tools to help identify the skills and interests of parents
  12. Ensure that our development service is well placed to provide the support and resources you need to recruit adults and develop your scout group

To ensure that we recruit and support more young leaders we will:

  1. Reach out to new audiences of 14–18-year olds not involved in scouting
  2. Standardise the joining and application process for young leaders across the county
  3. Develop a welcome booklet for new young leaders
  4. We will promote the opportunities available to volunteer as a young leader to complete the service requirements of the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Scheme to schools and DofE clubs across the county 
  5. Centralise the coordination of young leader training across the county to allow young leaders to choose the method and time that they complete their training
  6. Provide support for section leadership teams so they can effectively support the young leaders in their team
  7. Organise an annual county camp / event for young leaders
  8. Produce a young leaders charter for groups to adopt
  9. Invite young leaders that have achieved there young leader’s belt buckle to our annual awards night
  10. Enhance our support for the young leader leader’s scheme
  11. Develop resources to promote the young leader’s scheme to schools and other youth organisations
  12. Develop short videos to promote the young leader’s scheme
  13. Look at ways, and possible incentives, for our existing young leaders to get their friends that are not scouts involved

To ensure that our adults are better supported we will:

  1. Look for ways we can make life easier for commissioners and group scout leaders
  2. Look at ways we can distribute a generic welcome pack and early support including an overview of the tools and resources available on our county web site to new leaders and supporters
  3. Look at difference ways we can deliver getting started training   
  4. Use web conferencing to extend meetings to people who would miss out.
  5. Use web broadcasting and web-based video for appropriate training and meetings rather than holding face-to-face meetings
  6. Investigate the possibility and demand for childcare during our adult training weekends  
  7. Offer the use of peer-to-peer video calling to carry out validation of adult training
  8. Support districts in the recruitment of GSLs for groups currently without one
  9. Provide training and support in the areas of welcome, induction and appointment review
  10. Provide tools to help groups actively recruit AGSLs to assist with succession planning
  11. Continue to enhance the support and resources available on our website
  12. Constantly review and improve the support the county provides, with the help of feedback

So that members of scouting across South London feel empowered, we will:

  1. Provide, and encourage participation in, relevant, effective, timely and convenient adult training and validation
  2. Develop our ability to deliver specialist training and ongoing learning opportunities including first aid, safeguarding, safety, youth led scouting, executive committee support, effective recruitment and induction, campfire and scouting skills
  3. Recruit and coordinate the work of a scouting skills active support unit which will provide training and a point of contact and support
  4. Publish outcome bullet points of county meetings
  5. Openly advertise all county team vacancies

So that our adults across South London feel valued, and have a sense of belonging we will:

  1. Continue to improve internal and external recognition of our adult members including the introduction of a one years’ service award
  2. Ensure that all adult records are up-to-date, and that long service and other awards are applied for and presented in a timely fashion
  3. Make a range of South London Scouts hoodies, fleeces and polo shirts etc. available for members of the county to purchase
  4. Promote (well in advance), the opportunity to attend the annual Gilwell Reunion as part of the county ‘contingent’ to the event
  5. Continue to support the Jack Petchey Foundation Young Achiever Awards and when available, awards for leaders
  6. Provide opportunities for our adults to socialise and to have fun (including competitions)!
  7. Ensure members of the county team attend district led ‘let’s do lunch’ events in each district
  8. Encourage nominations for the association’s commissioner’s commendation award (awarded by district commissioners and the county commissioner)
  9. Ask for views on what form an annual event for adults across the county could take and include and arrange an event based on the feedback we receive

So that members of scouting across South London feel proud, we will:

  1. Where appropriate issue a permit card to acknowledge the permits that our adults hold
  2. Issue the getting started training insignia to our adults once they have completed getting started training.