About Hornsea Scouts
What is Scouting?
Scouting is a global, educational youth Movement. In the UK Scouting is organised through The Scout Association. Beverley and Hornsea District is part of The Scout Association and covers the area from the town of Beverley inland to Hornsea on the coast. It is part of Humberside Scout County.
Scouting has a clear purpose:
To help young people achieve their full physical, intellectual, social and spiritual potential as individuals, as responsible citizens and as Members of their local, national and international communities.
If you would like to know more about terms used in Scouting please check out the Hornsea Scout Group Terminology page, by following the link.
About our work
Even if we can't solve all the problems in the world, we can help to make it a better place. Scouting makes a positive contribution to society by helping young people to develop as active members of the community:
Scouting works well when young people enjoy learning by doing in partnership with adults. They do this by:
Our method for giving young people the opportunity to learn by doing is called the Programme. The Programme is a continuous progression of training, activities and awards that covers everything that young people do in Scouting from the age of 6 to 25.
