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Strategy for Scouting - Missions for Scouting

Volunteers in Scouting - developing new approaches to broaden the base of adult support.

Young people are volunteers when joining Scouting. Adults too volunteer their time and efforts to offer the benefits of Scout education to young people.

Adult volunteers are not necessarily only people who obtain no compensation for the time and money they invest in Scouting. In many countries, this would not be possible and our long established traditional view of "volunteers" therefore needs to be broadened if we want to attract and retain adults who are keen to share their experience, knowledge and values with young people. The new concept of volunteering recognises the need for personal commitment as well as recognition in the community for the work undertaken but it does not exclude compensation for that work.

As a result of this new concept of volunteering, it should be possible for new groups of potential leaders to be attracted to Scouting and retained.

With the support of the Adult Resources Policy we therefore need to attract, recruit and retain a new type of adults to Scouting. These adults need to be trained to fully identify with the values of scouting and to share them with (not impose them upon) young peolpe.

This strategic priority aims at redefining the concept of volunteering as applied to Scouting and reviewing policies and practices to help National Scout Organizations recruit and retain a new group of adults in Scouting.

The seven strategic priorities: 
1. Youth Involvement - revitalising the Scout Method.
2. Adolescents - supporting their transition to adulthood.
3. Girls and Boys, Women and Men - respecting differences, promoting equality and sharing responsibility.
4. Reaching Out - breaking down barriers and working with all segments of society.
5. Volunteers in Scouting - developing new approaches to broaden the base of adult support.
6. An Organization for the 21st Century - becoming flexible, lean, innovative, participatory.
7. Scouting's Profile - strengthening communications, partnerships and resources.

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