Venturers Award Scheme
Venturers is all about self-driven success, giving everything a go, and having fun. Your time as a Venturer could take you anywhere, and along any path.
Your Section and your Section’s Youth Leadership Team will play a significant role in your time as a Venturer as Kaiārahi take a backseat and hand the reins over to you and your fellow Venturers.
Grab every opportunity, take risks, and most importantly; have fun, don’t die.
The Venturer Award Scheme is designed to help you plan your Scouting experiences around a variety of different experiences.
The key to a great time at Venturers is challenge, learning, and fun. These are obtained by fully engaging, participating, and leading the programme in your Section. It’s important to remember that awards are a recognition of achieving your goals of your own development and progression, but shouldn’t be the goal themselves. Badges should be a result of these rather than the goal themselves – you’ll get a lot more out of them this way.
Membership Badge
Before you are invested into Venturers, you will need to complete your Membership
Badge. Your Kaiārahi and other Venturers will help you with this.
There are three main parts to this:
- Introduction to Scouting
- Introduction to Venturers
- Safe From Harm
Bronze, Silver, and Gold Awards
The Bronze, Silver, and Gold awards recognise your progression through the programme
To complete these awards, you will need to Participate, Assist, and Lead a number of activities from each of the programme Areas
At the end of each award, you will also take part in a reflection.
Queen Scout’s Kauri Award
The highest award you can earn as a Venturer is the Queen Scout’s Kauri Award. This is the Capstone Award for the Venturer section.
The Adventure Skills
The Adventure Skills are your pathway to adventure. They are designed to help you gain the skills you need to participate in, assist with, and lead adventurous experiences
The Adventure Skills are designed so that you can work on them as you move through your Scouting journey. Instead of being attached to a section, you can complete any level of any Adventure Skill in any section, as long as you have completed the previous levels of that Skill
Each Skill has 9 Levels, each with a set of competencies to complete that build on the level before it
Currently there are 7 Adventure Skills. They are:
You can be assessed by your Kaiārahi, another member of Scouting who is two or more levels above you in the Skill, or any other competent person
Once you reach level 3, you can start to mark off others who are working at level 1!
To complete your Kauri Award, you will need to complete 10 Adventure Skills progressions during your time in Venturers.
A progression is gaining a new level in a Skill. It’s up to you if you want your progressions to be across a lot of different Skills, or mostly in just a few of them
You can find all the requirements for each of the Adventure Skills in the Adventure Skills Handbook. This is also where you can record your Adventure Skills achievements, or you can do this in Mahi Tahi
When you finish an Adventure Skill level, please record it.
Better World
Better World helps you live out your Scout Promise by contributing to your community, country, and world
There are 3 parts to every Better World Programme:
Experience: Learn about an issue that is interesting to you. Find out about how it affects people, and what you can do to help
Act: Participate in, Assist with, or Lead a project that helps with the issue you’ve been learning about. Remember to Plan, Do, Review every part of your project
Share: Share what you have done with others, and let them know how they can get involved
There are 8 Better World Programmes. They are:
You can complete a Better World project with your Vetnurer Section, by yourself, or with another group.
To complete your Kauri Venturer Award, you will need to complete 4 Better World projects in at least 2 different programmes.
You can find specific programme requirements and resources in the Better World Handbook, or in the member resources portion of the SCOUTS New Zealand website.
Better World works with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This is a set of 17 goals for the world that were agreed upon by world leaders in 2015 to make the world a better place for everyone.