About Us

Scouts are do-ers and give-it-a-go-ers. Yes, we go camping, hiking, swimming, abseiling, cycling and canoeing.

But, we also get to hang out with our friends every week – having fun, playing games, working in a team and taking on new challenges.

Every week we give almost half a million 4-25 year olds the skills they need for school, college, university, the job interview, the important speech, the tricky challenge and the big dreams: the skills they need for life.

Everyone’s welcome here. All genders, races and backgrounds. Regardless of your young person’s physical ability – there’s a Scout adventure out there waiting for them. And we’ll help them find it.

Our Sections

• Squirrel Scouts – 4 to 6
• Beaver Scouts – 6 to 8
• Cub Scouts – 8 to 10½
• Scouts – 10½ to 14
• Explorer Scouts – 14 to 18
• Scout Network – 18 to 25
• Adult volunteers – 18 and over

Click here to find out more about the location of local Scout Groups and Units or to enquire about volunteering as an adult.

To contact us direct locally you can click on Contact Us to send us feedback or a request for information.

What’s this I hear about waiting lists?

Scouting is popular with young people and this means that sometimes we can’t take everyone at the time they want to join us – they have to go on a waiting list. We try to fit people in as soon as we can and will be happy to talk over the options with you. The key for us to be able to provide more Scouting for more young people is the number of adult volunteers we can recruit. Daughters and sons of our adult volunteers can be found places in our Groups.