Nights Away or residential events, such as camping or sleepovers, are a key part of Scouts. They’re something that every young person should have the opportunity to take part in.
All Nights Away Notifications for Nights Away activities will be approved directly by our District Team and must be submitted via the online form through the membership system to ensure all the information provided on the form complies to the requirements for Nights Away.
Help on submitting the Nights Away Notification
Guide and training clips on how to apply for Nights Away events and how to approve Nights Away requests.
Nights Away Permit
To run a Nights Away experience a nights away permit is required. The Nights Away Permit Scheme is an internal assessment scheme designed to ensure that all those leading nights away events for young people within Scouts have the skills, experience and personal suitability to do so.
Risk Assessments
Everything we do involves an element of risk, so we have to have plans in place to manage this.
We all do risk assessments or safety checks everyday, for example, when we cross the road. We choose an appropriate place to cross, look both ways and make a decision about whether it’s safe to cross.
We know that young people learn by doing. Activities encourage the development of young people and they can feel a huge sense of achievement in completing them. We want to provide EXCITEMENT but not DANGER; ADVENTURE but not HAZARD. Click here to find out more about completing risk assessments.
Got a question or need advice? Email Mark on mark.stubbs@blackpoolscouts.org.uk
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Nights Away Notification Form
Planning a nights away experience? Don’t forget to submit a notification for approval seven days before the event takes place. You must wait for approval before the event takes place
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Nights Away Event Passport
Nights Away Event Passports exist to enable young people in the Scout and Explorer Scout sections, who are deemed suitably skilled, to undertake a nights away activity as a peer group.
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InTouch
InTouch is the system that helps you to communicate at all Scout activities and events. It’s flexible and lets Groups and Sections work out the best way to keep in touch during these activities.
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