Your Learning

Find out about our volunteer learning and how you can access it.

We aim to equip all our volunteers with the skills and knowledge they need to confidently ensure the safety of young people and help them develop life skills.

Growing Roots

The learning all new volunteers need to do within their first six months.

Branching Out

The learning you can choose to do to develop your knowledge further and get accreditations.

Access learning through My Learning. Sign into scouts.org.uk, click ‘start learning’ button on the My Learning tile. This will open your My Learning home page. The learning you need to complete will be listed under ‘The Learning you need.’

Growing Roots for everyone

Growing Roots is the learning you need to do within your first six months as a new volunteer, with Safety & Safeguarding completed within the first 30 days.

Safety

This learning needs to be completed within the first 30 days of joining.

Safeguarding

This learning needs to be completed within the first 30 days of joining. HERE

Creating inclusion

Enrol via My Learning. Direct link.

Data protection in Scouts

Enrol for this essential GDPR learning via My Learning. Direct Link.

Who we are and what we do

Enrol online via My Learning or using this Direct Link.

Growing Roots for some people

This is the learning some people need to do.

Delivering a great programme

This learning needs to be completed by all Section Team members.  HERE

Leading Scout volunteers

This learning will need to be completed by all Team Leaders and Lead Volunteers, except for Team Leaders of Section Teams and Sub-teams.  HERE

Being a Trustee in Scouts

This learning will need to be completed by all Trustees.  HERE

First Response

Separate to Growing Roots, First Response must be completed by many people within 12 months of starting a role.

This learning needs to be completed by every Section Team Member, Section Team Leader, Group Lead Volunteer or 14-24 Lead Volunteer.

It must be renewed every three years. 

First Response training is provided by local Volunteering Development teams.  Some external First Aid certifications are accepted to cover some or all of the Scout First Response requirements.

Safety, Safeguarding and First Response learning need to renewed every three years. 

Branching Out

Branching Out learning is for when you want to stretch yourself and develop your skills and knowledge. 

Some of the Branching Out learning is required if you want to do certain things – like learning for our accreditations. Other learning is there for if, and when, it's helpful for you.  

It covers a wide range of topics, from practical Scouts skills and how to deliver adventurous activities, to how to manage projects and events. Delivery methods vary with some content designed to be delivered face-to-face, in practical skills workshops for example, or as online content on the My Learning digital tool.