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The following books and resources are available for you to help you run an exciting Balanced Programme for the young people in your Unit.

The Unit Essentials is a comprehensive guide to the day to day running of an Explorer Unit. It is designed as a handbook to help you with your role - whether your are an Explorer Scout Leader or Unit Assisant. It will tell you what you need to know about the Explorer Scout section and your role within it. You may decide to read it from cover to cover or dip in and out. Each chapter explains a key area of the role.

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The Unit Programme aims to provide you with many of the tools, ideas and techniques needed to run an exciting Balanced Programme for your Unit. The Unit Programme also includes the requirements for all the Explorer Scout Badges and Awards.

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The Unit Programme Plus is the paper counterpart to Programmes Online, the very popular online resource for programme material. There are 40 fully worked up programmes ready to use, including details of the equipment needed, instructions and other useful information.

How to run the Young Leaders' Scheme

Information about the Young Leaders' Scheme.

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An adults guide to camping, holidays, expeditions and sleepovers

Nights away provides everything you need to know for enjoying the outdoors and taking young people away safely and with confidence. Aimed at all adults in Scouting, it provides advice on the best equipment to take, ways of preparing your staff and how to make the most of your time away. Illustrated in full colour throughout, and with its own smart binder, Nights away is the definitive guide to camping and the outdoors produced by the people most famous for it!

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