109th Scout Group
Lowe Memorial Presbyterian Church, Finaghy
Part of South Belfast District
Outdoor Challenge Award
How to earn your award
- Take an active part in at least eight nights away as a Scout. Four of the nights should be camping. While you’re away, work with other Scouts do the other tasks on this list.
- With others, pitch and strike your tent.
- Lead, or help to lead, a group of Scouts to set up a well-organised site. It should include sleeping tents, food and equipment stores, a fire or stove, kitchen and eating area.
- Prepare and light an open fire or set up a suitable stove. Use it to prepare, cook and serve a meal safely.
- Understand the three points of the Countryside Code. Show what action you can take to follow the code.
- Find out why personal and campsite hygiene is important. What should you do to be hygienic?
- Using knots that you have learned, build a simple pioneering project, object or camp gadget.
- Explore the environment of your camp and make sure you know where everything is. Respect the environment you are in and, at the end of the camp, leave the site as you found it.
- Find out what accidents and incidents can happen outdoors or during your camp. Show how you would deal with them.
- Show how to use an axe, saw or knife safely. You can choose any or all of these tools.
- Complete at least four of these tasks:
- Provide a service commitment to the site for about an hour.
Additional Information
Scouts who have particularly enjoyed this Challenge Award may like to try these Activity Badges:
Activity Centre Service
Camper
Chef
Meteorologist
Pioneer
Quartermaster
Survival Skills
To complete this award Scouts need to have spent at least eight nights away within Scouting. These nights away could be over any number of occasions, and at least four of them should be camping.
A camp or residential experience provides lots of opportunities for doing activities that you wouldn’t be able to do on a normal meeting night. Scouts could go away with their own Troop, with another Troop, or as part of a Group, District or County event. They should take an active part in the experience, and need to complete requirements 1-9, and four from the optional list (over the eight nights away) in order to gain the badge.
The Countryside code is operated by Natural England and applies in England and Wales. The key principles are relevant everywhere in the UK countryside. The Scottish Outdoor Access Code operated by Scottish Natural Heritage applies in Scotland. The Northern Ireland Countryside Code applies in Northern Ireland. More info: England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland
Personal and Site hygiene could include such things as personal hygiene, looking after personal equipment and troop equipment whilst maintaining a tidy and orderly site, food hygiene, including waste disposal and dealing with litter.
Typical accidents or incidents which may occur outdoors or at camp include cuts, grazes, burns and scalds, stings and insect bites, heat stroke, upset stomach, dehydration, sprains and broken bones. Scouts should understand how to deal with an accident, the importance of getting help and how to make an emergency call.
In exploring the environment of camp Scouts should know which areas are out of bounds, understand the need to respect other people’s camps (for example by walking round not through them), take care of communal areas, and pick up their litter.
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