8th Basingstoke Scout Group

There are lots of badges and awards that can be earnt by Scouts.

Challenge Badges

As you can tell from the name, Challenge Badges are designed to be challenging!  Each Challenge Badge will give you a chance to try new skills and experiences.  There are 8 challenge badges for Scouts:

• The Outdoor Challenge
• The Outdoor Plus Challenge
• The Creative Challenge
• The Fitness Challenge
• The Global Challenge
• The Community Challenge
• The Adventure Challenge
• The Expedition Challenge

Chief Scout's Gold Award

This badge is the highest award available in the Scout Section. It is gained by completing:

• the Outdoor Challenge, plus
• four other challenges, plus
• a personal challenge

Activity Badges

Activity Badges give you the opportunity to look in-depth at a particular subject or skill.  There are 70 Activity Badges.

Full list of activity badges.

Uniform

With all these badges it is sometimes hard to remember where to put them!  This diagram shows exactly where all the badges should go: