Challenge Awards
Scouts can gain nine different Challenge Awards: Adventure, Creative, Expedition, Outdoors, Personal, Skills, World, Teamwork and Team Leader. These will require considerable commitment from the Scouts involved, but together with gaining six Activity or Staged Activity Badges will result in the awarding of the prestigious Chief Scout's Gold Award, and these are therefore our main focus for badgework. Requirements for all the Awards can be found here. Almost all of these Challenge Awards will require Scouts to undertake some development work in their own time. You can find help sheets created for some of these challenges below - the exception is the Personal Challenge, which is on its own page.
Activity Badges
There are 60 different Activity Badges which Scouts can earn, as well as the Staged Activity Badges. Some of these we will cover in the course of our evening meetings, but many others lend themselves to being gained for activities outside Scouting. If you believe you are eligible to receive one of these badges you should print out the requirements for that badge, have them signed by an appropriate adult, and bring that in to give to a leader. Requirements for all of these badges can be found here.
Summer Badges - Athletics and other Sports
If your Scout is taking part in the Saddleworth Village Olympics this could be a golden opportunity for them to work towards a badge or two!
Athletics
Scouts need to do all of the following, this isn't about performance, just about taking part:
Field: - discus; shot put; cricket ball throw; javelin; high jump; long jump
Track: - 100m; 200m; 400m; 800m; 1500m; 100m hurdles
Team: - 4 x 100m relay; team assault course; blindfold race
Athletics Plus
The Athletics Plus badge isn't just about taking part, it is about how well you can do. This varies slightly depending upon age and gender, so the best thing is to take a look at the table here. Let us know if you are eligible for one of these badges.
Skills Challenge Award
One of the requirements for this badge is to take part in a physical activity of some sort for 4 - 6 weeks and to keep a record to show your improvement.
Another part of this award includes you completing at least 5 of the following - these can be signed for by parents/carers on your record sheets:
Athletics
Scouts need to do all of the following, this isn't about performance, just about taking part:
- take part in an appropriate warm-up and warm-down activity, and know why they are important
- know about the safety rules associated with athletics and the appropriate clothing to wear
- find out how to take part in athletics in your local area
Field: - discus; shot put; cricket ball throw; javelin; high jump; long jump
Track: - 100m; 200m; 400m; 800m; 1500m; 100m hurdles
Team: - 4 x 100m relay; team assault course; blindfold race
Athletics Plus
The Athletics Plus badge isn't just about taking part, it is about how well you can do. This varies slightly depending upon age and gender, so the best thing is to take a look at the table here. Let us know if you are eligible for one of these badges.
Skills Challenge Award
One of the requirements for this badge is to take part in a physical activity of some sort for 4 - 6 weeks and to keep a record to show your improvement.
Another part of this award includes you completing at least 5 of the following - these can be signed for by parents/carers on your record sheets:
- mend or customise an item of clothing
- cook and serve a two-course meal for at least 4 people
- fix a puncture or a dropped chain on a bike
- wash up after a meal, making sure everything is clean and dry
- use a washing machine correctly to wash a load of clothes
- iron your uniform shirt
- change a lightbulb, in a ceiling light
- clean a hob, oven or toilet
- complete another, similar home skill
