Growing the
Movement
(Section Leaders)

Description

Planning and achieving growth of Scouting in your Group and Section.

This means:

• ensuring transfer between Sections
• devising and implementing development plans for the Group and Section
• co-operating with other agencies outside Scouting.

Questions

• Do as many young people as possible transfer from your Section to the next?
• Do you know how to recruit, support and retain adults?
• Can you produce and use a development plan to ensure that Scouting grows in your Section?

Delivery methods

• Small group
• Course.

To validate this module you will need to complete two of the following:

1. Work with others to produce and implement a development plan for your Section.
2. Identify new Members who have joined Scouting as a direct result of action you have undertaken. Explain the actions they took to enable this to happen.
3. Explain the transfer methods between Sections, their role in Moving On, Membership Awards and age range flexibility, and how they could improve the methods of transfer of young people from one Section to the next.
4. Any other ideas, subject to agreement with a Training Adviser.