Chief Scout Awards 

The Chief Scout’s Acorn Award shows that you’ve had adventures, helped your friends, and learned new things – it’s a big achievement, and you should be proud!

How to earn your badge:

• Finish all four Challenge Awards.

• Do two  Activity Badges of your choice.

This is the highest award a Beaver can earn. To earn it, you’ll need complete all of the challenge awards, as well as any four activity badges of your choice (including staged activity badges).

How to earn your badge:

• Complete all the challenge awards.
  They are:
  My World Challenge Award
  My Skills Challenge Award
  My Outdoors Challenge Award
  My Adventure Challenge Award
  Teamwork Challenge Award
  Personal Challenge Award

• Do any four activity badges or staged activity badges.
  Explore the Beavers Activity badges.

The Chief Scout’s Silver Award shows that you’ve given new things a go, played your part, and stuck it out, even when the going got tough. It’s a really big achievement, and you should be proud.

How to earn your badge:

• Finish the seven challenge awards.
  They are:

Our World Challenge Award

Our Skills Challenge Award

Our Outdoors Challenge Award

Our Adventure Challenge Award

Teamwork Challenge Award

Team Leader Challenge Award

Personal Challenge Award.

• Earn six activity or staged activity badges of your choice.
  They could be badges you gain outside your normal meetings or ones you’ve worked towards at meetings.
  Explore the Cubs activity badges.

How to earn your badge:

• Complete the nine challenge awards.
  These are:

World Challenge Award

Skills Challenge Award

Creative Challenge Award

Outdoors Challenge Award

Adventure Challenge Award

Expedition Challenge Award

Teamwork Challenge Award

Team Leader Challenge Award

Personal Challenge Award

• Earn six activity or staged activity badges of your choice.
  They could be badges you gain outside your normal meetings or ones you’ve achieved through your programme.
  Explore the Scouts activity badges.

How to earn your badge:

• Be a member of Explorer Scouts for at least six months.

• Complete eight nights away as an Explorer Scout of which four must be camping.
  Any nights away can count for this section, including those used in another part of this award

• Complete two activities from the International, Community and Values list.
  The two activities should come from different areas of the Platinum ICV list.

Choose 1 of the following options:

1. Hold the Bronze Duke of Edinburgh's Award
   Find out more about the Duke of Edinburgh's Award Scheme.

2. Complete the four Platinum Scout Challenges, which are:

• Take up a skill for three or six months*, and show progress and lasting interest. The skill can be an existing interest or something entirely new

• Take up a physical activity for three or six months*, completing an agreed programme of taking part and achievement

• Provide service to an individual or the community for three or six months*.
  Briefing and training should be given in order to gain the necessary skills. This can include helping with another section as a Young Leader.

• Complete a two day and one night expedition in rural country by foot, cycle, horse, canoe, boat or dinghy.
  The expedition should involve careful preparation, training, responsibility and review.

* You also have to spend an extra three months on one of the Skill, Physical or Service Challenges. It’s your choice which one and, though you can change your mind later, you should decide which section you want to do for longer at the beginning. Knowing how long you’re going to do it for will help you to choose your activity and set your goals for each section.

To gain the Chief Scout's Diamond Award, members must complete the following:

• Be a member of Explorer Scouts or the Scout Network or both for at least 12 months.
  This can include any time counted for the Chief Scout's Platinum Award.

• Complete 16 nights away as an Explorer Scout or member of the Scout Network, of which eight must be camping.
  Any nights away can count for this section, whether used in another part of this award, or to count towards the Chief Scout Platinum award.

• Complete four activities from the International, Communities and Values list
  Complete four activities from the International, Community and Values (ICV) list. This should include at least one from each area of the list, and can include activities you completed for the International, Community and Values list for your Chief Scout's Platinum Award'.

Choose 1 of the following options:

1. Hold the Silver Duke of Edinburgh's Award.
   Find out more about the Duke of Edinburgh's Award Scheme.

2. Complete the four Diamond Challenges:

   • Take up a skill for three or six months*, and show progress and lasting interest. The skill can be an existing interest or something entirely new.

   • Take up a physical activity for three or six months*, completing an agreed programme of taking part and achievement.

   • Provide service to an individual or the community for six months*.
     Briefing and training should be given in order to gain the necessary skills. This many include helping with another section as a Young Leader or regularly helping at in the community at places such as a soup kitchen or animal shelter.

   • Complete a three day and two night expedition in rural or open country by foot, cycle, horse, canoe, boat or dinghy.
     The expedition should involve careful preparation, training, responsibility and review.
     * You also have to spend an extra three months on one of the Skill, Physical or Service Challenges. It’s your choice which one and, though you can change your mind later, you should decide which section you want to do for longer at the beginning. Knowing how long you’re going to do it for will help you to choose your activity and set your goals for each section.