Monday 10th May marks the launch of Mental Health Awareness Week, the UK’s national week to raise awareness of mental health. We’ve prepared a short video blog with some tips for wellbeing from some of our team. The week, which…
Q&A with Paul Ellis; our new Assistant County Commissioner for Explorer Scouts.
We’re delighted to share the news that Paul Ellis has recently taken on the role of leading support to the Explorer Scout section, across Merseyside. We managed to catch Paul to ask him a few questions, which should help you…
Thinking about getting back face to face, but not yet made plans?
Around half of our Groups have made plans to be able to offer face to face activities, within our Readiness Framework and we’ve seen some brilliant examples of COVID-safe activities that have been taking place – from grass sledging to…
Focusing our programme support.
Our Programme Support Team is focusing the support that we provide to Section and Unit Teams as we begin to restart and rebuild through face to face Scouting. We’ll be focusing on support volunteers to help young people achieve the…
The Duke of Edinburgh, 1921 – 2021
Merseyside Scouts was saddened to learn of the death of His Royal Highness Prince Philip, and the thoughts of all our members are with Her Majesty The Queen and the entire Royal Family. Prince Philip was life-long supporter of ensuring…
Restrictions ease further on Monday 12th April.
The following information was shared by The Scouts with all members on Thursday 8th April: On Monday, the UK Government confirmed the move to Step 2 of the COVID-19 roadmap. The National Youth Agency have also confirmed that the youth…
We’ve created a Top Awards Pathway to illustrate key awards we across our sections.
We wanted to increase the visibility of our Top Awards and make the Queen’s Scout Award something all our members strive for, and Kane Maloney stepped in to help us with this by illustrating the pathway. Kane tells us how…
We want to make sure every member undertaking their Queen’s Scout Award is supported.
Later this month the Queen’s celebrates her Birthday, we thought this would be the perfect time to launch our updated Queen’s Scout Award Support. Our updated support pages on this website now include a simple registration form, and by registering…
Freya shares how achieving her Queen’s Scout Award is now helping her as a Medical Doctor.
The years 2015 – 2020 were some of the most challenging and exciting of my life so far. I embarked on a number of new adventures, which included starting and completing my medical degree and completing my Queen’s Scout Award…
Join us at our Leadership and Support summit on Saturday 10th April.
Register your free place here. Normally each January, we invite those responsible for leading and supporting other volunteers to come together for a day of planning. This hasn’t been possible during 2021. Earlier this year, we came together for a…