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Transforming your Volunteer Experience

Find out how we’re transforming volunteering at Scouts

We want to make volunteering with Scouts easier and more fun, so that we can attract and retain more volunteers, resulting in more young people gaining Skills for Life! 

Read on for details of what this means, or click here for our one page quick briefing on improving the volunteer experience.

As part of delivering our Skills for Life Strategy, we’re going to transform the volunteering experience. We want to make sure our volunteers feel valued for everything that they do and most of all, we want them to enjoy themselves.

Together, we aim to:

Why are we doing this?

A lot of people don’t like change, and don’t understand the word ‘transformation’ – so perhaps it’s best thinking of what we’re doing as making improvements rather than just changing for change’s sake.

We spoke to thousands of people both inside and outside the movement, and here’s some of the things they told us were wrong:

What are the changes?

Up and coming Webinars

Throughout the course of Transformation, Scouts UK will be hosting various webinars, which you can register for. As and when these are launched, we will provide information on each of them below.

How to be a Great Trustee Board

Wed 18 September 7pm – 8pm

Volunteers on a Scouts Trustee Board should join us at this webinar. We’ll cover what makes a great Trustee Board, and simple steps you can take to make sure Trustee Boards are running as they should.

Your Transformation Team

Scott Goddard

Transformation Lead

Martin Elliot, Regional Lead Volunteer

Martin Elloit

Transformation Team Member

Michael Treanor

Mike Treanor

Transformation Team Member

Madi Pollard-Shore

Transformation Team Member

Nacho Luna Borrás

Transformation Team Member

Kieran Collins

Transformation Team Member

Graeme robertson

Transformation Team Member

Support & Advice

We’re here to help guide you through the changes which are happening now, and on the way.

To ask us a question, or send your comments, you can email the team on transformation@sesscouts.org.uk or fill out the form opposite.