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Join our Team
Join our Team
Vaux Own Scout Group is run entirely by our team of volunteers, and we're always looking to add to that team! Whatever your background and experience, whether you're a seasoned scout leader or this is your first time even hearing about scouting, we have an opportunity for you!
Volunteering can be a brilliant way to boost your mental wellbeing. It’s a great feeling knowing you’re helping young people get skills for life, and you might even learn a lot about yourself along the way.
Please send all volunteering enquiries to volunteer@vauxown.org.uk
Volunteering with Young People
Volunteering with Young People
Team player? Love supporting young people? Great at planning? Each week, our volunteers help young people gain skills for life through activities and adventures.
Most of our volunteers work with one of our youth sections, joining that section's leadership team and working directly with our young people.
As part of a section team, volunteers might:
As part of a section team, volunteers might:
Welcome young people and families to sessions and events
Make sure everyone's safe, supported, included and having fun
Help to plan and lead activities
Get involved with days out, camps and expeditions
Share and learn skills – from coding to cake decorating to canoeing
Celebrate young people's achievements big and small
Volunteering behind the Scenes
Volunteering behind the Scenes
Your time and skills can make a difference in so many ways. Not all volunteers work directly with young people, many help out in other ways, and they're just as important and impactful as any other volunteering role!
As part of our group leadership team, or our trustee board, volunteers might:
As part of our group leadership team, or our trustee board, volunteers might:
Get the best out of volunteers, using their people and leadership skills
Spread the word about Scouts to attract new members
Help with admin, fundraising, finances, operations or governance
Keep everything running smoothly on the ground – from serving tea and coffee, helping to tidy up after meetings or sessions, driving or keeping equipment in tip top condition
Flexible Volunteering
Flexible Volunteering
It's super-important to us that Scouting is something our volunteers enjoy, and that it fits in around everything else that might be going on in their lives. Flexible Volunteering helps us make sure this is the case!
Volunteers don't have to commit a specific time or number of hours every week. Instead, we can find an opportunity that suits them and their schedule. That might be weekly involvement, or helping out at the occasional event, or even something more ad-hoc.
Some roles come with training that needs to be completed in order to make sure we keep our volunteers and young people safe and happy while at scouts. Our group leadership team is there to support and make sure that this doesn't prove an obstacle for new volunteers!
Get in Touch
Get in Touch
Interested in getting involved? Just drop us an email to: volunteer@vauxown.org.uk
Once you've emailed, our team will get back to you as soon as they can. Please remember all our team members are volunteers with other commitments outside of scouting; you may need to wait a little while before they can respond.
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