Join the team!

Scouting is enabled by teams of volunteers!

You might simply have an interesting skill/job/experience that would be fun to share in a scouting session – or you might be passionate about giving the best start to children in our community and want to be involved regularly.

There are so many scouts for whom Phil was important. I think Phil’s legacy in Scouting is the sheer amount of young people who grew in maturity and confidence, skills for life and a love of the outdoors through his tenure as our Shere Khan, our Group Scout Leader.

A few words from the Scouting Tribute given at the funeral of our Group Scout Leader

What will your legacy be?

In the 167th Group is run by an Executive Committee team, a Beaver Team, a Cub Team and a Scout Team. Adults can offer different levels of support to the group – see below for an outline of these levels.

We currently need …

The lovely Phil did so much for the group that there is now quite a gap to fill! If either of these roles look exciting to you – please get in touch!

Vacancies in the Beaver Team

The Beaver team is headed up by an excellent Beaver Section Leader and supported by quite a few great parents in the Occasional Helper or Section Assistant roles. We promote healthy teamwork and collaboration; but good teams do need good leadership, so it is probably more usual for the Beaver Leader to be supported by one or more Assistant Beaver Leaders and Section Assistants. What we would like is 1 or 2 adults who would like to complete the training to Assistant Section Leader.

Vacancies in the Cub Team

We’d love to add one or more female volunteers to add to the team as Section Assistants.

At the beginning of each term the leaders meet and plan a term of fun cub activities, then we divvy the meetings up between ourselves so that we each plan, communicate and prep a few meetings a term. If you’re new to Scouting, then we would definitely offer you a term or two to settle in and plenty of support learning the ropes.

Vacancies for Scout Leaders

Our Scout Troop has only one trained leader at the moment and is relying on plenty of ad hoc parent help. We would love to build the team of volunteers who are recruited and trained to support the troop on a regular basis. Please get in touch if that’s you and in the meantime – have a look at how we support you get started.

Vacancy for Group Scout Leader

If you’d like a role that is slightly less about working week in week out with children and young people – perhaps the GSL is for you. You would chiefly be supporting the adults that run the 3 sections as well as steering the direction of the group. Naturally you will want to attend meetings of the Beavers, Cubs and Scouts occasionally and especially for things like investitures (where new members make their scouting promises) and the awarding of top awards. You might even turn up at camps for a bit of outdoor fun!

Different Levels of Volunteering

Parent Helper

Sometimes Parents will help on a very occasional one-off basis. There might be a rota for you to bag one spot each term. Perhaps we need a few extra adults for a trip. Perhaps you’ve got a special skill or experience that we’d love to share with the scouts. You would never be unsupervised with the children and the other adults would make sure you know any safety information.

Occasional Helper

Sometimes these one-off sessions might need you to supply further information about you or perhaps a DBS check. This might be for helping out on residentials (camps) or bigger trips, like going to Longleat, where you might end up out of sight/hearing of a regular leader.

Section Assistant

With this role you can volunteer more than once a month. This is the role that most ‘full time’ scout leaders start in. Volunteers will help run the evenings most weeks. We aim that our teams are large enough and robust enough that any member can use a night off!

Section Leader and Assistant Section Leader

Volunteers who become more experienced might move in to a lead role in each section, or assist the current section leader. They will aim to complete all the training to be awarded their Wood Beads.