Scouting at Home - Be Prepared

Being Prepared

As a team of Leaders in your Section, there are a few things to do NOW:

1. Choose your platform for online meetings.
2. Practise it. A meeting with fellow Section Leaders? A Section Council?
3. Read up on any security issues that you need to be aware of.
4. Check you have current contact details for all your youth members, eg preferred family email, mobile numbers.
5. What are you doing as a holiday activity to keep your Section connected?

A week before your meeting:

1. Confirm your program with your Section Council and Leaders.
2. Prepare the information you need to send to your members.

Three days before your meeting:

1. Send your invite to members and parents
2. Include a list of equipment they might need and their activity sheet

On the day of your meeting:

1. Open the platform 15 minutes early, maybe have a prepared question they can answer
2. Allocate a Leader who will assist with technical support for the meeting
3. Have a great, fun meeting
4. Share your ideas with scoutingathome@scoutsvictoria.com.au and send your images to socialmedia@scoutsvictoria.com.au

Be Prepared for new members

When your youth members say they have a friend who wants to join in the online meetings, please make them welcome.

There is no charge at this time.

Registration will be sorted later.

If your Section now has 24 members, why not 30 when you return to the hall and the outdoors?

Source: Scouting at Home - Manual