There are allot of different badges you can earn while you are in Scouts. This page lists all of the badges that you can earn within your time here at scouts.

If you want to know where the badges go on your uniform, then see the uniform and badge location page.

Membership Award

This is the badge you receive when you are invested into the Scout Troop and make your promise. It shows everybody that you are a member of the Scout Association. If you received this badge when you were a Beaver or Cub, then you can continue to wear it on your Scout uniform, even before you are invested.

Joining In Awards

You will receive a Joining In Award each year you are in the Beavers, Cubs, Scouts or Explorers so that everyone knows how long you have been a member of the Scout Group. When you move up from cubs put the last joining in badge you received on your scout uniform.

Moving On Awards

If you came up from the Cub Pack, then you will have received the Cubs to Scouts Moving On award. You can continue to wear this badge throughout your time at Scouts until you gain the next Moving On award.

The next award is presented to a Scout just as they are moving on to the Explorer Unit to show they have learned what Explorers is all about. This will be the first badge you wear on your Explorer uniform.

Challenge Awards

There are nine different Challenge Awards for you to gain. You will usually earn most of these by attending almost every Scout meeting and taking part in the extra activities, we tell you about. You will need to earn all nine of these before you can receive the top award called the Chief Scout’s Gold Award.

Chief Scout’s Gold Award

The Chief Scout’s Gold Award is the highest award available in the Scout Section. It is gained by completing all nine of the Challenge Awards plus another six Activity Badges.

Activity Badges

But that’s not all! There are also 73 different Activity Badges that you can complete at any time while you are a Scout. During the course of the programme we will be doing some of these badges, and if you wish to do others in your own time then, you should speak to one of the leaders about what you have to do. The programme will feature some of the badge suggestions put in by the troop and patrol leaders forum.

The activity badges cover everything you could possibly be interested in, from Air researcher to writer and many in-between. If you have a hobby, interest or favourite sport it is highly likely there will be an Activity Badge that you can work hard for, gain and wear on your uniform with pride.

Activity Badges can be worked on by any Scout. They offer the opportunity for a Scout or group of Scouts to take a particular interest or skill to a higher level. The detailed requirements of all the badges are on the Scout Association website or just talk to one of the leaders.

Sometimes, badges just happen. Scouts gain bits and pieces towards a particular badge by camping and taking part in activities, so it doesn’t seem like work at all! Scouts may work on badges at home but please talk to one of the Scout Leader team before you start.

In order to receive the top award, the Chief Scout’s Gold Award, you must earn at least six Activity Badges, as well as the nine challenge badges.

Many of the Activity Badges are individual badges just for the Scout section.

 

And some are staged so that you can earn higher levels as you improve. These badges are the same within Beavers, Cubs, Scouts and Explorers.

In addition, if you develop your skills even further after you have gained an Activity Badge then you can also gain an additional award, the Activity Plus, for any of the scout Activity Badges.

In addition, if you develop your skills even further after you have gained an Activity Badge, or if you learn how to be an instructor in a specific skill area, then you can also gain additional awards for any Activity Badge as follows:

 

There is also the Scottish Challenge badge and the Zodiac Award