Joining Scouts
Explore Our Sections
Scouts Australia provides fun youth development activities, building resilient and confident boys and girls aged 5 to 25 in the Joey Scout, Cub Scout, Scout, Venturer Scout and Rover Scout Sections. We also welcome adult volunteer Scout Leaders. Scouts has opportunities for the whole family to be involved. Everyone is welcome, and we value the diversity of our members. Find out more about the Section of Scouting that is best for you here.
Joey Scouts
Cub Scouts
Scouts
Venturer Scouts
Adult Volunteers
What We Do
Scouting is all about education for life. Our dynamic, challenging and adventurous program equips young people with life skills, such as teamwork and leadership, and gives them the tools to develop into strong, resilient adults and valuable members of the community. We offer a wide range of opportunities to all our members including the chance to travel interstate and overseas, the chance to earn industry recognised qualifications, and even the chance to perform on a professional stage.
About Scouts
Scouts has been around for over 100 years, when it was first founded in the UK in 1907. Since then Scouting has evolved into a worldwide movement of nearly 50 million young people and adult volunteers and is welcoming of all genders. Scouting provides young people, guided by adult volunteers, the opportunities to participate in programs, events, activities and projects that contribute to their growth as active citizens. Over the course of the program, we provide increasing opportunities for our members to take the initiative with ‘youth leading, adult supporting’ one of our fundamental goals.
We provide an experience that is all about connecting with the outdoors; building new and existing friendships; learning new skills; and helping create a better world.
Organisation
Scouts Australia is a 70,000 strong organisation and is part of the 40+ million member World Organisation of the Scout Movement.
Our Vision: Through shared values, by 2023, Scouting will be the leading youth development Movement in Australia, empowering 100,000 young people to be resilient, self-fulfilled positive change makers in their community.
Find out more about our organisation, our values, our strategy for the future and our leadership teams here.
What’s Involved
As part of a worldwide organisation, Scouts Australia engages and inspires young people to develop confidence, resilience and leadership. At the same time, Scouts is fun! Young people will make lots of friends while doing heaps of new things, some of them once-in-a-lifetime opportunities. Our focus is on fun, and, unique to our program, we make sure Scouts are ‘learning by doing.’
Instead of learning in a formal way, Scouts get ‘hands on’, tackling projects in small groups or teams – we call them patrols. Being engaged and involved, making decisions and learning from mistakes form part of the ‘action’ as young people ‘learn by doing’ and are guided and advised by trained adults. Our youth leading, adults supporting model, ensures that our members develop into active citizens with all the skills and experience required to achieve in their future personal and professional lives.
We provide an experience that is all about
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connecting with the outdoors
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building new and existing friendships
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learning new skills
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helping to create a better world.
A young person will join their age-appropriate section at their local Scout Group. There will be weekly meetings, usually based around school terms. Each meeting is jam-packed with activities such as games, craft, learning outdoor skills, earning badges, or planning upcoming expeditions! Within the term, and sometimes in the holidays, there will also be additional optional activities such as bush walks, camps and other age-appropriate interesting outings such as rock climbing, rafting, canoeing, sailing, community service and even flying.