Regional Services Team

The Regional Services Team is a staff team which operates across England, supporting the opening of new Scout groups and sections, and provide support to volunteer managers and growth supporters in their respective areas. The Regional Services Team can support with the following specific projects

Growth

• Opening new Sections, Units and Scout Groups in communities across England

• Grow your Group workshops (training and tools to help grow existing Scout groups, districts and counties)

• Adult recruitment workshops (training and tools to help bring more adults into existing groups, districts and counties).

Supporting Key Line managers

• Group Scout Leader induction events
  

• District Commissioner inductions

• County Commissioner appointment, searches and inductions

• Supporting Regional Commissioners and County Commissioners on growth and development initiatives. 

Conferences and events

• Delivering growth and recruitment workshops and sessions at locally organised events

• Delivering development planning workshops and sessions at locally organised events. 

Support to growth facilitators  

• Supporting Assistant Regional Commissioners (ARC) (Growth) to grow Scouting.

• Contributing to the Induction of Growth Facilitators.

• Assisting ARC (Growth) with identification and creation of development plans.

• Assisting the ARC (Growth) with the identification of new provision.

• Advising on the planning and implementation of funded development projects.

• Supporting local development volunteers to grow Scouting.

• Delivering recruitment training and induction opportunities.

• Delivering new provision training and induction opportunities.

Support from our Resource Officer (based at Gilwell Park)

• Providing resources, advice and remote support for the appointment of District Commissioner searches.

• Providing resources and advice for the appointment of Group Scout Leader searches.

• Providing support to the digital delivery of certain elements of the District Commissioner Induction. 

Contacts

If you would like to discuss ways the Regional Services Team could support you, click here to access the contact page to speak to a member of the team.