Our leaders, the heart of Scouting
All our leaders are unpaid volunteers and we thank them for every minute of service to Scouting.
Resources for our volunteers
We believe that the time volunteers give to Scouting is valuable. Time wasted is time better spent helping young people make new friends, have amazing adventures, and learning new skills. We believe admin should be simple and automated as much possible - saving you time and effort.
Portsmouth Scouts has put together a series of information, guidance, education and other materials to help volunteers be their most effective. Explore the links below to find out more.
Be part of our team
Are you an adult volunteer - in any formal capacity - supporting Portsmouth Scouts? Then, we would love you to join our private Facebook Group just for the teams running Scouts across the City of Portsmouth. Click HERE to request membership of the group. Your Membership Number is required to validate participation with Scouts.
Welcoming volunteers
A common admin tasks for lead leaders is to ensure the required adult membership paperwork is completed. While nothing replaces the official guidance in POR (Policy, Organisation and Rules), the information here will help simplify starting most new volunteers.
Admin items
Being a team leader can demand regularly completing very similar administrative tasks - ordering badges, requesting DBS, checking training, organising activities or events. We want as much of this to be simple, online and automated wherever possible. Let us know if there's something you want adding. In the meantime, we can help with:
Gift Aid
Creating shared events (in OSM)
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Forms
There are always some thing which needs notification, reporting or permission. We have created or linked to online versions of some of the most commonly needed forms and notifications. Including:
District Minibus booking
@portsmouthscouts access request