1-Isn’t Scouts all about Knots?

NOPE!!

With over 100 activities badges ranging from 1st Aid to Kayaking, there are activities for everyone and yes you can still learn how to tie a clove hitch!

2- How much do you get paid? 

 

Yes there are paid roles within Scouting, these are mainly based at Gilwell Park HQ but there are  over 154k volunteers within Scouting in the UK ranging from Scout leaders to adults who seat on the executive board to volunteers behide the scenes such as the Group Quarter Master.

3- There’s no bacon for breakfast on camp!

A Scout leader’s worse nightmare on camp unless you don’t eat Bacon!

4- Cheapest babysitter I could ever have!

Every Scout Leader will hear this from time to time… Its true Scouting is much cheaper than a babysitter–it’s a Fact!

5- It’s only 2 hours a week!

No one actually knows where this quote started from. Everyone has heard it.  But in actual fact you can volunteer within Scouting for just 2hours a week.

There is a role for every one!

6- Sorry I can’t possibly help. I have 2 children and I work full time.

 

Another quote I’m pretty sure ALL Scout Leader’s have heard and will continue to hear.  Most of our volunteers do actually have full time work and started volunteering while they has children in beavers, cubs or scouts…. they could see the impact we make and still they continued after their scouts had moved on!

7- Johnny has come back without a plastic bowl, a left sock, and his toothpaste, please let me know when these are found so I can come and pick them up.

We often get asked if we can drop that item around to the house or re open up the Scout Hall.  But Nope sorry… make sure it’s labelled and we will get it back to you at the next meeting.  Leader want to get back to their own families from time to time 🙂

 

8- I didn’t know about that, I don’t check my emails very often…

Even if you snail mail, text or what’s app that parent, they will still claim they never received that message!  Is this you?

9-Why don’t you run through the holidays?

Some groups do continue running through School Holidays. But for we valur our leaders… some of them have young children too!

10- Why have you picked a campsite an hour away on a Friday evening? I’ve had to leave work early to get him here, it’s really inconvenient.

Yes,  this comment happens …. perhaps take time out to think about the leaders that have spent weeks, sometimes months planning the weekend for you little darling… may be taking his/her annual leave to accomodate it.

11- We’ll be off on holiday…. Would you mind dropping him off at home after camp?

 

Or we are at the cinema, Could you look after little Johnny for another Hour please because we are still out at the restaurant.  Don’t even think it!

And the most annoying thing you can say to a Scout Leader is…

Dyb Dyb Dyb!!

Please note “Dyb Dyb Dyb” has not been used officially in scouting since 1967.

 

 

 

 

 

Adapted from Big man in the woods