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 key to a great time at Venturers is challenge, learning, and fun. 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 experiences rather than the target—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 personal progression through the programme. To complete these awards, you will need to Participate in, Assist with, and Lead a number of activities from each of the core programme Areas, ending with a personal reflection.
Bronze Award
Silver Award
Gold Award
👑 Queen Scout’s Kauri Award
The highest award you can earn as a Venturer is the Queen Scout’s Kauri Award. This is the ultimate Capstone Award for the Venturer section.
The Adventure Skills
The Adventure Skills are your direct pathway to adventure. They are designed to help you gain the hands-on skills you need to participate in, assist with, and lead adventurous experiences.
These strands move with you throughout your entire Scouting journey. Instead of being attached to a single section, you can complete any level of an Adventure Skill at any age, provided you have successfully met the previous levels. Each skill features 9 progressive levels with a set of competencies to build on the level before it. Currently, there are 7 core Adventure Skills:
Tramping
Emergency
Air Activities
Boating
Camping
Vertical
Water Safety
🎯 Note: To complete your Kauri Award, you will need to achieve 10 total 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 concentrated in just a few! Track requirements inside the Adventure Skills Handbook or log your progress digitally via Mahi Tahi.
Better World Framework
Better World helps you live out your Scout Promise directly by contributing to your community, country, and world. You can complete a Better World project with your Venturer Section, by yourself, or with another group. To finish your Kauri Award, you must complete 4 Better World projects across at least 2 different programmes.
2. 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!
3. Share: Share what you have done with others, and let them know how they can get involved.
Oceans
Climate Change
Conservation
Sustainability
Peace Ed
Global Citizen
Community
Equity
