Current Opportunities

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.

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.

• 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.