Activities

Beavers, Cubs, Scouts and Explorers can take part in a sleepover or camping experience at home, under the supervision of their parents or guardians. This may be sleeping indoors in dens or out in the garden under canvas where possible. Some sections could organise a ‘night away at home’ together on the same evening and find ways to connect by having virtual conversations and shared activities or challenges.

Click on the link to find more on rules or guidance, implications for badges and awards and making this part of a quality programme. For more information visit the UK Scout website.

We know that your sofa is no replacement for a canoe, under your bed not the same as a cave and if your family found you abseiling down the outside of the house there would be trouble.  Adventurous activity is one of the hardest areas to compensate for when we are not meeting outdoors or face to face. 

Why not use the UK Scouts activity page to inspire ideas of things you can prepare for at home. Look up videos of the adventurous activity you would most like to try, start letting your leaders know what you would like to do most when you return so that they can prepare and research opportunities. As well as the taking part there are many safety, equipment and skills elements to all activities and knowing more about these is one way to get you out into the middle of the action even sooner when the time comes. 

What about making a video of your own that recreates your favourite adventurous activity like Phillip Klein did

There are many ways you can maintain competence with adventurous activities. This could be through eLearning or small online sessions to run over skills.

Adventurous activities are a key, fun and inspiring part of Scouting. From a young person getting their first experience of being afloat in a canoe to a trekking expedition through the peaks of Nepal, they provide valuable experiences, lessons and memories for all of those involved. Our role is to ensure the young people get the opportunities for these positive experiences in a safe and fun environment.

The adventurous activity permit scheme is an internal assessment scheme designed to ensure that all those leading adventurous activities for young people within Scouting have the skills, experience and personal suitability to do so.

For full details of the Activity Permit Scheme and which activities are covered - visit the UK Scout website.

Applying for a Permit in Lincolnshire

If you require a permit assessment within Lincolnshire please use the application process as detailed below:

1. Applicant completes form
2. Send applicant form to a County Assessor for the relevant activity (contact details available here) who will contact the applicant regarding the assessment which will be a practical assessment unless a National Governing Body award is held.
3. The applicants knowledge of rules relating to that activity will be checked.
4. The completed permit form & checklist will be returned to the relevant Commissioner.
5. DBS check (District)
6. Personal Suitability (DC)
7. Permit granted by relevant Commissioner (DC), card issued to applicant. Form returned to ACC (Permits) for putting onto Compass.

Timescales

The Technical Assessment, can take a while to arrange, please allow at least 1 month

ACC (Permits) sends permit & form to DC to sign please return this to the ACC (Permits) and will post out the permit direct to the applicant.

Note:

Air activities and Shooting not included

The Nights Away Permit Scheme promotes quality residential and camping experiences. It shows that all those leading nights away events for young people within Scouting have the skills, experience and personal suitability to take young people away safely.

It is designed so that it can be tailored to be as flexible as possible, while at the same time providing a robust checking process for leaders of nights away events. The permit should be seen as an enabling device to show a person’s competence and provide reassurance to parents of the young people, while at the same time encouraging adults to acquire and improve the skills required to provide residential experiences.

Everyone who leads a nights away event for young people within Scouting is required to hold a Nights Away Permit for the type of event they are running.

Although managed locally, the Nights Away Permit Scheme is a national scheme, so once gained, a permit will allow you to run a nights away event in any District or County.

Full details of the Nights Away Permit Scheme can be found on the UK Scout website.

Applying For A Permit

To get a permit you should apply directly to your District Nights Away Adviser - details can be obtained from your District Commissioner. 

You can find an application form here.  You can either print it off and fill it in or can be filled in using MS Word to enable you to email it. Although there is no requirement to get approval from anyone in applying for a permit, it is good practice to let your Group Scout Leader and responsible District Leader know of your intentions beforehand. They can often provide valuable guidance and support.

To encourage young people led residential events, such as patrol camps or Explorer Scout expeditions, when you hold a nights away permit you can grant a nights away passport to an under 18 year old. It will allow the young person to lead a residential event with no Leaders present and will last for a single event.

Before granting a permit you will need to check that you are happy that the young person has the skills to lead that event safely and successfully, as you remain responsible for the event. The young person given the passport will be leading the event, so it can not be given if there will be Leaders present running the event who are looking for a way around the Rules as they do not have permits.

A recently created Scout Active Support Unit, the Water team provide support to Lincolnshire in providing sectional activity days and also opportunities to gain permits.

Contact: water@lincolnshirescouts.org.uk

The Three Arrows Scout Survival Team was set up in early 2013 with the aim of providing members of the Scout and Guide movement with hands-on outdoor skills. The team is made up of skilled Scout and Guide leaders from around Lincolnshire that are dedicated to promoting education in those core skills that the Scout and Guide movement are so famous for.

To this day The Three Arrows attend events nationwide providing hands-on sessions and workshops for participants to learn and develop survival skills, with an emphasis on honing these abilities in a fun and constructive manner. The camps and workshops provide individuals with a better insight into their environment and the resources available to them in the natural world in safe and controlled surroundings.

Contact: thethreearrowssst@gmail.com

Website: www.thethreearrowssst.org.uk

Global Adventure is a Lincolnshire Scout Active Support Activity Management Team which specialises in large scale events providing a range of activities to the Scout and Guide movement.

We own a wide range of adventure activities which are often seen at major Scout and Guide events, such as Gilwell 24, Gilwell Winter Camp, Gilwell Fundays and Poacher International Jamboree.

We offer a range of activities, as well as activity management, all supported by our enthusiastic and dedicated team.

The Go-kart team has been operating this activity for over thirty years, providing a motor sport activity for young people of the Scout and Guide Associations. We are the ones in the bright red overalls at weekend camps and Jamborees!

We provide expertise and equipment to set up and operate go-karting as an enjoyable activity. We aim to teach young people and adults driving skills in a non-competitive environment. We can operate in various ways to accommodate anything up to 60 drivers per hour. We do not run operate at public events.

Contact: gokarts@scoutgokarts.co.uk

Website: www.scoutgokarts.co.uk

• All unnamed drains (fishing interests preclude all boating on many of these waterways)
• All rivers unless otherwise classified
• Sudbrooke Park Lake and Pool (access required from Camp Warden)
• Riseholme Hall Lake
• Skegness Boating Pond

• All gravel pits and quarries (rescue boats must be available, no access to many)
• River Witham above Boston Sluice gates
• River Welland (above lock gates at West March Road)(River level often rises to B2)
• River Steeping (above pumping station)
• Brayford Pool, Lincoln
• Rivers Ancholme, Bain, Eau, Glen, Nene (above Sutton Bridhe, Lyme, Slea and Wearing)
• Whitewater reservoir
• Canals Coronation, Fossdyke, Horncastle, Maud Foster, Louth (above tide barrier)
• All named drains

• Coastline except entrance to Boston Harbour (up to one mile offshore, from 1 April to 31 October)
• Covenham Reservoir
• River Steeping (below pumping station, from 1 April to 31 October)
• River Welland (below lock gates at West March Road)
• River Trent (except below weirs and in spate)
• River Welland in spate
• Tetney Haven (from 1 April to 31 October)

• River Trent (below weirs and in spate)
• Coastline up to three miles offshore unless otherwise classified (from 1 April to 31 October)

• River Witham (below Boston Sluice and Boston estuary to the entrance to Boston Port)
• River Steeping (below pumping station, from 1 November to 31 March)
• Tetney Haven (from 1 November to 31 March)
• Coastline (unless otherwise classified)