Frequently Asked Questions About Explorer Scouts....

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What AWARDs & Badges do explorers wear on UNIFORM?

Some badges can be moved from Scout uniform to Explorer uniform. Find out more about what awards Explorers can earn and where exactly they go on the uniform here 

What uniform do explorers Wear?

Formal uniform consists of necker, shirt and dark (black/navy) trousers or skirt. However for many meetings and events the Explorers will just wear comfortable activity appropriate clothes and their necker. As with other sections, the shirt is where badges and awards are sewn on. Explorers get to choose whether they have a brown or blue shirt as we have Scouts who join us from both Land and Sea Scouts. The unit necker has the special addition to the Group's colours of a reflective strip. Something that comes in handy to help them be seen if out at night! ...and something the younger scouters look up to and look forward to getting when they become an Explorer!
The unit also have optional polo or hoody with the Marauder Unit logo on it.

Do Explorers Do DUKE OF EDINBURGH AWARDS?

Yes - the DofE scheme is available to young people in scouting. In fact there are several awards the Explorers can do which are really useful as they head toward college / apprenticeships / university / work. You can view these here. Many of the activities in scouting provide transferrable skills even if they don't do some of the higher awards. The registration form can be obtained from the Explorer Leader Volunteer Team.

WHAT AGE ARE EXPLORER SCOUTS?

Why does the exploreR unit have a different bank account to the group?

Scout Association organisational policy, is that the 2 older sections; Explorers 14-18 and Network 18-24 are administered by District Scouting (in our case Colchester Estuary District) and are expected to manage their own accounts that are submitted to District. Both the Group and the Unit are accountable to District This means that the Unit is technically funded separately from the Group and manages it's own accounts and assets. However, many Explorer Units have a partnership agreement with their local Scout Group. Marauder Explorers have a partnership with Mersea Scout Group and as such are considered part of the Group. In fact the reason the Unit exists, is because the Group asked one of their Leaders to open a Unit on Mersea in order to make sure that the young people of Mersea continued to have access to scouting when they turned 14. The Group supports the Unit and the Unit supports the Group in various  other ways. The Unit contributes to the Group from their subs similarly to all the other sections in the Group. They own some of their own equipment and mutually share equipment and skills across the Group but the unit has to fund it's own activities and most of its programme resources.

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