Skills & Permit Training
Support
Dorset Scouts Programme Team Members can advise and help with queries:
- Land Aaron Palmer landactivities@dorsetscouts.org.uk
- Water Yung Leung wateractivities@dorsetscouts.org.uk
- Air Paul Rayner paul.rayner@dorsetscouts.org.uk
Target Sports activities are split in to multiple categories, some require permits, whilst others external qualifications are acceptable:
- Archery Ray & Jackie Harris archery@dorsetscouts.org.uk
- Tomahawk Throwing Jeremy Edwards jeremy@bushscout.org.uk
- Other Target Sports Bradley Pickering bradley.pickering@dorsetscouts.org.uk
Camping is led under the Nights Away Permit Scheme, each district has their own Nights Away Advisers who can support leaders in running a safe camping activity, and in turn they are supported by our County Nights Away team.
- Nights Away Adviser Mike Winchester nightsawayadviser@dorsetscouts.org.uk
- Supporter Nights Away Permit Scheme Joe Merefield nightsaway@dorsetscouts.org.uk
Training and Permit Assessment
The standard training scheme for leaders is to deliver day-to-day scouting activities and ends in the Woodbadge award. Leaders can extend their skills by doing specialist training, often specialising in one of adventurous activities categories of land, sea or air. An assessment can lead to a permit allowing them to run a particular adventurous activity.
Other roles can also become adventurous activity permitted holders. An existing SAS member may do so. Or an adult may volunteer to be a Skills Instructor only and they do the mandatory Getting Started training then the specialist skills training.
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