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Resource - Books

The following books and resources are available for you to help you run an exciting Balanced Programme for the young people in your Unit.


Scouting essentials

The file for all adults in Scouting

With over 140 fully illustrated pages and presented in a stylish and durable binder, Scouting essentials is the 'what, how and why' of successful Scouting. With full explanations of the new Programme, badges and awards and the support available to you, this file will be your single, comprehensive reference point for all aspects of Scouting.

Scouting essentials also comes complete with a CD-ROM, containing ScoutCount, a unique electronic database system, clipart and a host of other features, to make your day to day administration even easier.

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Nights away

 

An adults guide to camping, holidays, expeditions and sleepovers

Nights away provides everything you need to know for enjoying the outdoors and taking young people away safely and with confidence. Aimed at all adults in Scouting, it provides advice on the best equipment to take, ways of preparing your staff and how to make the most of your time away. Illustrated in full colour throughout, and with its own smart binder, Nights away is the definitive guide to camping and the outdoors produced by the people most famous for it!

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Unit essentials

 

How to run your Explorer Scout Unit

With over 75 illustrated pages of essential information on this exciting new section, Unit essentials will help you plan everything from an environmental Group project to an international expedition. Designed so you can dip in and out of the resource easily to find what you want, no Unit should be without a copy to hand.

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Unit programmes

An adult's guide to the Explorer Scout Programme

Chock-a-block with exciting and thought provoking programme ideas, this resource will allow you to challenge your Explorer Scouts in a wide variety of new and different areas. Extensively illustrated and designed to help your Unit work together, Unit programmes is your complete guide to planning your programme and making it happen.

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Young Leaders' essentials

How to run the Young Leaders' Scheme

Information about the Young Leaders' Scheme.

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The Explorer Scout and Scout Network Navigator

Complete with a mini-CD containing a host of multimedia features, The Navigator is the perfect introduction to these exciting new Sections. Steering young people through the basics of the Promise and Law, to making choices and exploring values, this file is designed so that readers can find the information they want quickly and easily. With plenty of room for personal notes and materials, Members will be quite simply lost without it!

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