District Plan

We’ve invested a lot of time this year in our short medium and long term development.  We have identified four key areas to focus on these were Resources, Events, Growth and Development.

Our development day allowed us to focus on our primary aims and start thinking through some actions against these,  We are then left with the following which we are working to deliver:

Text in green has been delivered, text in orange is in progress

RESOURCES	EVENTS	GROWTH	COMMS
Our Aims are: Develop tools to share resources Make resources easier to book Invest in Overstone Review locations of key resources Review District use of Wales	Our Aims are: Think about the events we run and why we run Focused on Young People Review successful events Utilise Explorers more Review District St Georges Day celebration	Our Aims are: Location of groups are key Focus on what we have first, how can we strengthen Build resources to help with growth Be bold.  Think out side the box	Our Aims are: Website is our priority Email communications are still hit and miss Meetings must be purposeful Use technology to make life easer (social, OSM)
Our Actions are: Setup Activities SASU Develop activities offering Develop practical skills Drive Nights Away Drive Adventure Programme Sharing Use Activities within OSM Create district centric programmes Programmes in a box Develop ‘Easy Camps/tented village Skills & Permit Skills development (skills weekend & sessions) SMEs to knowledge share Permit review and group self sustainability Permit training Overstone Structure & Governance Move to SASU Focus on development & planning Multi year investment in Roy’s Challenge Operational Climbing Wall Resource Centre concept  Scout Shop Key asset delivers revenue to District. Increase utilisation and identify ways to support Review location Urgently need volunteers	Our Actions are: St Georges Day Review what, where and how Sectional Events Deliver sustainable sectional events Need to complement groups/county programme More Explorer & Network led activities District Challenge (15/6) will be Explorer led Youth Shaped Identify better ways for Young People to feed into events planning and feedback Million Hands events Deliver events for leaders Social Skills Celebrate	Our Actions are: Groups/Units: Where Growth Happens Provide groups with support to grow Focus on what they have and potential Programme is key to growth Permits & Qualifications to adventure Resources for quality programme Skills training Camp in a box Smaller groups with lower numbers struggle in terms of cost Retention 14-15 Expand S2E Other opportunities Recruiting Recruiting in a box Handouts, banners etc District led recruitment Inclusion Build SASU around inclusion to support growth in this area. Education Links Forge links to Schools Use founders day as opportunity	Our Actions are: Website New on brand website to be launched start of new academic year Information and feature rich including online availability & booking Email Increased use of centrally managed email distribution  lists Need to use multi channel comms Social Standardise our Facebook groups Publicise what is out there Online Scout Manager District investment in OSM delivering OSM to each  section. Super users available to support groups Communications Manager Recruit someone to help manage and improve comms