Join

Thats great that you're thinking of getting involved.

Please choose the joining form that's right for you from the options below:

• Click here if you want your child to join Scouting.
• Click here if you are aged 16 - 25 and you'd like to join Scouting.
• Click here if you're an adult and you want to help Scouting.

The joining forms are held on the national scouts website, they will then get in touch with the relevant people back here in Wigan with your details.

If you have any trouble with the above please contact us directly.

Why should I get invloved?

• More young people do adventurous activities as Scouts than with any other organisation.
• No other organisation offers such a range of challenging or exciting activities as Scouting.
• The youngest person to walk to the South Pole was a Scout (Andrew Cooney).
• Each year 20,000 Scouts take part in the fitness challenge badge (and achieve it!)
• Each year Scouts undertaking the Queen's Scout Award walk the equivalent distance of once around the world.
• Each year Scouts spend over 2 million nights away from home doing adventurous activities.
• 11 of the 12 people to walk on the moon were once Scouts.
• You are never more than 10 miles from a Scout Meeting Place - adventure is accessible.

What will joining help me achieve?

Scouting in Wigan offers challenge and adventure to 400,000 young people aged 6-25 in the UK. We believe in helping our Members fulfil their potential by working in teams, learning by doing and thinking for themselves. We're working to make Scouting available to all and we're passionate about what we do.

Through the adventure of Scouting, young people get to take risks in a safe environment, and have their first taste of responsibility. We give young people experiences they'll never forget.

The sort of adventure Scouting offers is the chance to experience something different and the opportunity to challenge yourself. When a Beaver Scout wakes up the morning after a sleepover, or Cub Scout has just got over her fear of heights by completing her first abseil - that's adventure.

In Scouting, we provide over 200 activities from abseiling to zorbing (that's falling out of the sky in a foam ball in case you were wondering). If we don't have an instructor who can help we can normally find someone who can. But Scouting isn't just about activities for their own sake. We encourage our young people to feel the buzz of the challenge and then reflect on what that means. Did they have fun? Do they feel more confident? Would they do it again?