How to earn your award
Part 1 – You could find out how your local community is responding to coronavirus and how your local population is being looked after.
Or you could interview grandparents (phone call) and parents to find out what life was like when they were young. Back it up with internet images (e.g. find images of familiar items on old packaging (Google “Marmite packaging history”) and how much things cost in the olden golden days (before 1972)). Don’t worry if your grandparents live far away and it’s a different community.
Part 2 – You can’t spend a day volunteering with an organisation just now!
You can cover this part of the badge by, for example
- phone your grandparents or someone else who is isolated twice a week to make sure they are not lonely and to identify any needs they may have.
- keep your house clean and tidy for 4 weeks to help your parents keep things under control.
- Look after the garden for 4 weeks.
- Look after a younger sibling for 4 weeks, especially if your parents are working from home and need to concentrate on that.
Tell us what you are going to do and when you are going to start, and we will ask parents to confirm when the four weeks are up.
Part 3 – Confirmation counts for this. Alternatively, you could make a presentation on scouting values and which scout value means the most to you, using photos, writing, etc.
Part 4 – we can do by video conversation – or you can do some research and make a presentation.
Part 5 – Plant a tree in your garden. At this stage you can only lay plans (and write a poem about your plans for the Writer badge) but we will need before and after photos of your tree site / tree at a later date.
Part 6 – Jamboree on the internet is coming soon and this will likely be adapted to be done in the Isolation. More info to follow!
Part 7 – You can research an issue such as refugees, provision of water, etc.
1. Choose an aspect of local community life and find out as much as you can about it. You could learn about:
- local government
- local history
- different faiths and beliefs
- types of farming/industry found locally
2. Spend a day volunteering with and finding out about a service in your local community:
- What are their challenges?
- Who relies on this service?
- What positive impact could you have on this service in the future?
Services could be homeless shelters, local nature reserves, care homes and food banks.
3. Take part in an activity that reflects upon and explores your own beliefs, attitudes and values (this may or may not include religious beliefs). What values do we share as Scouts? Which Scout value means the most to you?
4. Take part in an activity that explores common beliefs and attitudes towards gender or disability in different societies. You could look at this in the context of music, sport and fashion.
5. Take an active part in an environmental project.
6. Investigate and try to make contact with Scouts in another country. Make sure you and your leader read the International Links Guidance here.
7. Take part in an activity that explores an international issue.