Urban Outdoors

Welcome to the great urban outdoors and the fantastic opportunities to give your programme a cutting edge.

Urban Outdoors provides a number of free resources to help and inspire front-line leaders to arrange activities, promote Scouting, fundraise and tackle issues within an urban environment

The Urban Outdoors packages and Street Entertainment package are initiatives from the National Activities Team of the Scout Association. We would be delighted to hear your comments and ideas. Please contact the Activities Office email activities@scout.org.uk, or call 020 8433 7125.

 
The Scout Association is pleased to acknowledge the financial assistance provided by the John Lewis Partnership Trust in support of this area of work.

An update on all the exciting events, initiatives and activities happening within the Urban Outdoors. If you have anything you want to publicise in this section, please send details to activities@scout.org.uk

Street Entertainment Resource Now Available! - To complete the Urban Outdoors package, Street Entertainment is now avaialble. This downloadable resource looks at different ideas for creative activities in an urban environment and how these can be used with young people. A printer friendly version is also available.

Urban Outdoors 3 is Now Available! - The third volume of the Urban Outdoors Trilogy is now online. It is once again a free web based resource, this time looking at some of the issues involved with the activities introduced in Urban Outdoors 1. There is also a printer friendly version of the web pages that can be printed out to be kept in your Scouting Essentials file.

This is a full colour resource looking at thow he urban environment can be turned into an Activities Playground. Find new ideas for really cool activities for your young people that can be done on your doorstep.

The great urban outdoors is not just about doing activities. It also provides opportunities for promoting Scouting and fundraising. Urban Outdoors 2 is available as a downloadable resource to support this, simply by visiting this website.

Urban Outdoors also allows the exploring some of the issues that touch young people, particularly in an urban environment, such as fair trade, asylum and feeling safe. Urban Outdoors 3 is available as a downloadable resource to support the discussion of issues such as these that are often difficult to deal with.

This resource is all about the colourful and interactive world of street entertainment. It is available as a downloadable file from this website, including a printer friendly version that can be kept as a hard copy. The package looks at different ideas for creative activities that have been practised for years by street entertainers.