Earn six Activity or Staged Activity badges. They could be badges gained outside of normal meetings or ones achieved through the Thursday evening programme.
Complete the nine Challenge Awards.
Part 1: Scouts will earn a number of Activity and Staged Activity badges by participating fully in the troop programme: Nautical Skills, Time on Water, Nights Away, Swimming, First Aid, Sailing and Paddle Sports. In theory most Scouts will therefore meet the requirement through Thursday evening meeting attendance. However, the Leaders would like our Scouts to individually work towards at least one Activity or Staged badge on their own. As well as doing badges that match hobbies or interest there is the option to do badges based on school work, such as art or DT. All badge information can be found on the main Scouts website (see menu on LHS).
Part 2: Most elements of most of the Challenge Awards will be completed during the three year programme, but in order to complete them all Scouts will need to attend weekend and camp activities. Some individual work will be required as well. The badge requirements for the Challenge Awards can be found on the main Scouts website but are also reproduced in the 3 Year Plan document below which covers how we intend to cover the badge work in the normal course of events.
A Scout's progress against all elements of the Gold Award can be monitored via Online Scout Manager.
Your Leaders' Promise to you
We will aim to get all our Scouts through the Chief Scouts Gold Award subject to the following conditions:
a. Scouts remain with the troop for three years (many leadership elements will only be covered in their third year as a PL / APL);
b. Scouts attend the majority of Thursday evenings ('catch-up' opportunities will be provided for scouts who miss occasional sessions for good reason, but there is not the resources to duplicate activities for scouts who are infrequent attendees);
c. Scouts attend two Summer camps (many elements can only be filled by doing camps) and the requisite number of specially organised additional activities (e.g Foodbank volunteering, Expedition etc);
d. Scouts commit to undertaking a small amount of independent work.
To support Scouts doing the independent work your leaders will manage the cohorts via this website and provide relevant proformas for signing off activities (see below). Although independent activities can be undertaken at any time during the three years a Scout is in the troop your leaders will offer a framework for managing the activities at certain times.