Volunteer

We’d love you to join our team of volunteers, helping young people have adventures – as well as getting loads out of it yourself!

At the moment we’re specifically looking for…

Training boss

Local Training Manager

We’re looking for someone to head up our adult training team in Wrexham who provide courses for new and existing adult volunteers.

Skills-sharers & tidy-uppers*

There are a few different ways you can help us directly with young people…

Leader

These are the adults who plan the programmes and make sure they happen. If you love organising things and seeing them through to reality, then this is the role for you.

We do need to make sure that the people who look after our young members know what they are doing, so if you take on this role we’ll have a chat to find out what you know, and the bits you don’t we’ll give you all the training you need.

Assistant

These are the adults who just help the leaders and don’t need to get too involved in planning what we’re doing or making sure all the equipment is there – though of course you can if you want.

There are just some basics checks we do for this role, again with training if you’re not sure how to do certain things, but this isn’t as involved as with the Leader role.

Helper

These are adults who just come along now and again when they can. We don’t need to do any training with people who do this role, but as with the other two, we do need to do a DBS check.

Young Leader

Aged 14-18? You can still help us out. You won’t have total responsibility for the Beavers, Cubs and Scouts, but you will be able to plan & run activities, pass on your enthusiasm & skills, and also learn loads yourself.

Find out where your nearest Group or Unit is if you want to take on one of these roles

Leader-leaders

Group Scout Leader

If you’ve ever led a small team in work, or organised a community event, or even planned a family holiday, you’ll have the skills to help support the leaders who put on activities for the kids. Group Scout Leaders are crucial to our work and we need more of them!

Their main functions are:

Support the leaders in the Beaver Scout, Cub Scout and Scout sections of the Group
Ensure all young people are kept safe and that all Leaders are aware of their safety responsibilities
Help with recruitment of new volunteer leaders and supporters
Ensure all adults have appropriate training and disclosure
Work with the Group Chair to ensure the Group has an effective Executive Committee
Be a member of the Group board of trustees
Planning for the future

Young voices

We’re looking for a District Youth Commissioner.

If you’re aged 18-25 and have the spark of enthusiasm for making Scouting better, you may be the person we’re after. If you know someone who’d be suitable, please encourage them to apply.

Here’s what we’re after

We need young people who can…

Communicate effectively
Be self-motivated
Do things without waiting to be asked/pushed
Come up with their own plan of things to be done
Have their own ideas of how to improve Scouting
Balance their time to fit in with other things in their lives
Engage all young people in the District
Work with other members of the District Youth Team
Help plan and run events
Represent others
Shout about Youth Shaped Scouting
Feedback to young people on what they’re doing for them

If you’re aged 18-25 (talk to us if you’re slightly younger) and meet these criteria, then we want to hear from you!

Please email dc@wrexhamscouts.org.uk and become part of Scouting’s future!

Now-and-againers

If you can’t commit to helping every week, can’t stay for the entire session, or can’t even get to the Scout hut ever, there are still ways in which you can help.

Events Support Unit

We run several large events each year which are open to all of our Scout Groups and Explorer Scout Units. The idea is to get the young people to meet other Scouts from different parts of Wrexham, and also to put on bigger and better activities made possible by larger numbers.

To put on these events we need more volunteers – ideal for those who can’t commit every week but want to make a difference.

Find out more

Bite-sized volunteering

If you can help out more regularly, but only for a very short time – say even 10 minutes – you can still provide valuable help. Lots of people doing a little is much better than a few people doing a lot!

You can help by spending 10 minutes on the phone booking a session at the local swimming pool so the Cubs can do their water activities badge. Or by picking up a few things from the supermarket when you do your own shopping and drop them off so the Scouts can do their chef’s badge (we’d transfer you the funds, we’re not asking you to pay for it too!)

Find out more

Admin-aces

If you love admin – just making lists, sorting records out, making things all neat and tidy and organised – then we have more than enough to keep you happy. And at the same time you’d really be helping the World’s greatest ever youth movement!

One of the admin roles we have is being part of our Appointments Team. We say team, at the moment it’s just our amazing Appointments Secretary Sandra, but she would love some help. So if you have some basic IT skills and love making things just right, you’d be very welcome.

Find out more

Retail-whizzes

Their main functions are:

Support the leaders in the Beaver Scout, Cub Scout and Scout sections of the Group
Ensure all young people are kept safe and that all Leaders are aware of their safety responsibilities
Help with recruitment of new volunteer leaders and supporters
Ensure all adults have appropriate training and disclosure
Work with the Group Chair to ensure the Group has an effective Executive Committee
Be a member of the Group board of trustees
Planning for the future

Media-moguls

Their main functions are:

Support the leaders in the Beaver Scout, Cub Scout and Scout sections of the Group
Ensure all young people are kept safe and that all Leaders are aware of their safety responsibilities
Help with recruitment of new volunteer leaders and supporters
Ensure all adults have appropriate training and disclosure
Work with the Group Chair to ensure the Group has an effective Executive Committee
Be a member of the Group board of trustees
Planning for the future

*open to 14-18 year olds as well as adults