Updated 2 May 2025
Current Opportunities
We’re Scouts and everyone is welcome here. Scouts is the UK’s biggest mixed youth organisation. Cambridgeshire Scout County has a total membership of around 6,650 and is growing rapidly, particularly around our larger cities/towns including Cambridge, Peterborough, Huntingdon, March, St Ives, Wisbech, Northstowe, Newmarket, Cambourne and Ely.
Ready for your next challenge?
We are always looking for talented individuals to join our growing #TeamCambridgeshire. You will be joining a team of volunteers who are all passionate about bringing brilliant Scouting to every young person who wants to take part and trying some new activities for fun themselves.
We believe in bringing volunteers together from all backgrounds, communities and cultures to provide a unique opportunity to make a real impact on more young people.
We are actively looking for people to take on roles in the following areas:
Volunteer Team Members:
County Trustee Board: 3 Trustees
The County’s “Trustee Board” is a team of volunteers who work together, as charity trustees, to make sure Scouts is run safely and legally. At the heart of their role is a focus on strategy, performance and assurance. Effective Trustee Board governance helps our volunteers deliver fantastic programmes that give young people skills for life.
We are looking for individuals who can support the organisation for up to 3 years and who may have professional expertise or several years of experience on other trustee boards. All Trustees are required to follow Scouts policies (including those related to safety, safeguarding, data protection, and equality, diversity and inclusion), charity regulations and and other relevant legislation. Appropriate learning and support will be provided.
The Board meets six times a year, at two monthly intervals, usually for around 2 hours. In addition Trustees also attend the Annual General Meeting usually held in June.
Interested? Please contact alan.sadler@cambridgeshirescouts.org.uk for an informal chat.
County Recognition Team members
The County’s “Recognition Team” (previously known as the Awards Panel), is part of the Volunteering Development team. It can approve nominations for the Bar to the Award for Merit and the Silver Acorn; see The Scouts (Higher Good Service Awards) (link).
The team is looking to boost its numbers with some new members to assist with writing and reviewing nominations.
It usually meets quarterly “in-person” with an occasional extra online meeting in between.
Ideally the team is looking for people with a good knowledge of scouting members either in your local District or across the wider County. Team members may have to do a bit of investigating to determine a nominee’s achievements and scouting background in order to draft or reword the nomination.
Interested? Please contact tony.rogers@cambridgeshirescouts.org.uk for an informal chat.
County Communications & Media Team members
- This may suit you if you have skills in any one or more of the following:
- graphic design,
- news gathering,
- copywriting,
- taking and/or editing photography, videography,
- and/or social media.
For those at Uni, being an active member of our Communications and Media team could also help boost your study portfolio. For more information, please email: communications@cambridgeshirescouts.org.uk.