We welcome young people between the ages of 5 to 26 and are open to all genders, ethnicities and religions. We are the world’s largest non-formal education institution, serving over 13,000 young people all across New Zealand. There are five youth sections in our Movement.
The Venturer programme offers exciting, fun, hands-on experiences for youth. They take a step up in leading and running their own activities.
Rovers run their own programme including regular Regional and National events with a focus on personal development, taking on leadership roles, and giving back to their communities
As a values based membership organisation, we ask everyone to commit to a common set of values. These values are inclusive and designed to support young people on their developmental journey.
We ask everyone to have respect for themselves and others, as well as the environment. We use this commitment to ensure our members have strong positive working relationships and understand how they connect to the environment.
We ask everyone to commit to being trustworthy and tolerant, and to having integrity. For young people this means always doing the ‘right thing’. This value is about encouraging personal responsibility and broader citizenship.
Finally, we ask members to commit to accepting challenges with courage and to be a friend to all. This focuses on helping members use bravery to face tough times, as well connecting with people from different communities.
We are always looking for Adults who are committed to helping young people reach their best potential. You don’t need to know how to pitch a tent, we can help you learn how to do that!
Mahi Tahi is our online tool to support your Scouting journey. It connects you with your Scout Group and helps track your personal progression through the programme. It you’re a member, head on over and get involved!
The announcement yesterday by the Prime Minister stating that indoor gatherings can include up to 100 people means that we can resume face to face Scouting while at Alert Level 2. We can confirm that Face to Face Scouting at a community level will resume, on a volunteer basis, from 4 pm on 1 June 2020. As our Leaders are
Now that we have moved into Alert Level 2, this is the final week of the free Scouting From Home programme. This week we are featuring: Gardening (good thymes ahead) Bridge Building (what do you call a polite person who builds bridges?A civil engineer) Inclusion (what does inclusion mean for you?) Use #scoutingfromhome when sharing your pictures on social media and
Helping to break a world record!!!! William, a Scout from Waiuku Scout Group, spent the month of April camping outside with his brother as part of #CampAtHome The goal of #CampAtHome was to break a world record and get 65 000 people across the world to camp on the night of 30th April (you can see more info here https://www.campathome.org.uk/ ). A
