3rd Hayling Scout Active Support Unit

1. Fill in the Join us form to register your interest.
2. The form gets sent to the SASU manager who will record your details on Online Scout Manager (OSM).
3. The SASU manager may ask for a 5-minute chat, this is just to gain an understanding of:
   1. What you’d like to help with,
   2. What skills you’d like to bring to the unit
   3. What skills you’d like to learn from the unit to pass on to the young people in the group?
   4. Answer any questions you have about the Unit
   5. Talk about the basic training requirements for a SASU member
4. Once the above is complete, a date will be agreed upon to be added to Compass, your 5 months will start now to complete your “Getting Started” E-Learning.
5. A DBS check will be started.

That’s it, you can take part in activities and events the Unit and group has to offer.

Yes, any over 18 can join the Scout Active Support Unit, no Scouting knowledge is required.

Yes, you can be a member in another SASU or join another while with us, just inform the SASUM.

Yes, of course, you can. Scout Active Support Units are designed for supporting the group when you want to be involved with flexible volunteering.

There is no minimum commitment.

The only thing that’ll be required of you is to complete a few basic short online training modules.

Your commitment is down to you, you’ll be invited to everything we have going on if you’re interested and available simply sign up. You can get involved with as much as you like. So, if you sign up originally to help at the Airgun club but fancy doing a backwoods cooking evening with Cubs, for example, you can!

There is training. But, nothing like the leadership team!

As a SASU member, we will be working with Young People as well as the leaders. So, you have 4 Basic online modules to complete in your own time.

1. Essential information
2. Safety*
3. Safeguarding*
4. GDPR

Some other modules may be added depending on the way you get involved.  Your SASUM will discuss this as it becomes appropriate.

The above modules are required to be completed within 5 months of the role starting on Compass.

*These modules last 3 years. They will then be required to be re-validated. This is to keep us all current on the Safety and Safeguarding of Young People in Scouting.

Yes, SASU members will need an in-date Scout Association DBS check. This will be completed when you are issued with your role as “Scout Active Support Member”.

If you have a DBS outside of Scouting, these are not accepted by the Scout Association.

DBS will be valid for 5 years (changing to 3 years soon), initial checks and renewals are free.

Unfortunately not, the Scout Association does not accept checks from other organisations nor do most organisations accept Scout Association checks. These are completed free of charge to you when you start your role with us and so are renewals.

Providing skills to others is the purpose of the Unit within the group. There are several ways to do this,

1. Within the unit – We would like to hold our own meetings now and again where we can all learn skills from each other and do our own activities.
2. A leaders skills session – like within the Unit we can hold sessions for the leaders where they get to learn the skills to pass on to their section
3. For a section directly – From time to time leaders may request help with a specific activity for an evening session. If you’d like to know more about running a session contact your SASU Manager.