The Association is committed to delivering a balanced and challenging programme for young people between six and twenty years of age, and will continue to adapt its methods over the coming years to ensure that the ever changing needs of young people in society are met.
We are unable to provide the challenging programmes required for the children to achieve the goals of the Scout Association without sufficient Leaders and Helpers.These can come in many forms, including fromthe ‘full Monty’, of uniformed, fully trained Leader, to the ad hoc parent helper, who comes and helps out when their name appears on a weekly parent rota.
We welcome any parents prepared to help in any of the Sections, and we find that they actually enjoy themselves enormously.Parents with special knowledge and experience can help to run evenings on activities as diverse as computers, cookery, knots, etc.You would be surprised at what skills you may have that would be useful to us! We recently had dads in to help build go-karts with the scouts and intend doing model planes soon.
Sonning Scouts is currently very short of Leaders, and so parents of all of the children in the Group, are expected to help out in any way that they can.Each Section in Sonning currently runs a mandatory rota for all parents to help out at the weekly meetings.Listed below are the various level of helpers that we require.
Beaver / Cub / Scout Leader / Assistant Leader
Uniformed Leader
undergoes professional training for the Scout Association
organising programmes
running meetings
taking children on outings & camps
managing finances of individual Section
managing subscriptions of individual Section
Permanent Helper
no uniform necessary,no training necessary
attends meetings regularly to help Leader run activities
helps Leader with paperwork (subs, attendance, etc.)
Specialist Helper / Instructor
no uniform necessary
helps organise specialist activity (i.e. proficiency badge, special event)
has special skills (i.e. computing, map/compass work, fireman, cook, etc.)
Weekly Parent Helper
helps Leaders only when required on Parent Rota List
Executive Committee member
manages financial matters for group
involved in decision making for Group on policies & expenditure
