Only by working together can we #get2good
The Area Leadership Team has spent a lot of time creating an Area plan to help drive the progress of the Area support of the Districts and Groups of Clwyd Area. In the below documents, you can get an overview of the plan in as much detail as suits you. There is nothing to hide here, we are being as transparent as possible, and we hope you can all see the potential value of developing the Area structure into something that helps drive Scouting in Clwyd.
The Area Leadership Team has spent a lot of time creating an Area plan to help drive the progress of the Area support of the Districts and Groups of Clwyd Area. To give us a framework on which to pin our plans, we designed our own steering wheel and then graded ourselves on each of the criteria. We use this regularly to review what we are doing and how we can refocus our efforts to success. We use it to ‘steer’ our progress.
Each of the assessment criteria or ‘spokes’ of the wheel is graded from low to high as either very poor, poor, fair, good or very good. When you map this out on a segmented wheel, it gives us a visual known as the ‘steering wheel’. The more segments we have completed, the better we are doing.
As you can see, plenty of work is to be done. These weaknesses are good, as there is much room for growth, and we should see it as a challenge to embrace, not an obstacle to run away from.
Where we currently are…
Where we want to be in November 2025
Our Area Vision is the same as that of the Scouts UK movement. By 2025 we’ll have prepared more young people with skills for life, supported by amazing leaders delivering an inspiring programme. We’ll be growing, more inclusive, shaped by young people and making a bigger impact in our communities.
Our Area mission is to #get2good. This means that we have a clear goal to improve the Area to a minimum good status across all of our benchmarking criteria. More information on the benchmarking criteria and what we are doing to get there can be found later in this plan. By moving towards a good status across all criteria, we will provide a consistent and robust level of Area support to Districts and Groups, inevitably improving the Scouting experience for all
We are guided by the Scouting values of integrity, respect, care, belief and cooperation.
We have set ourselves some ambitious goals and we have set these out into three distinct themes so we can focus our effort
Area Development
Teamwork and coordination will be the foundations on which we deliver excellence.
Our 2025 deliverables are
- Clear Area plan
- Youth shaped planning
- All area roles filled
- Area training delivery
- Centre of excellence for training/events
- Rolling training and event calendar
Youth Shaped Area
Teamwork and coordination will be the foundations on which we deliver excellence.
Our 2025 deliverables are
- Appoint a Youth Lead
- Youth shaped planning
- Area Youth representation
- Revitalised Network provision
- Assistance to Districts and Groups with Youth Shaped Scouting
Future Focused
Teamwork and coordination will be the foundations on which we deliver excellence.
Our 2025 deliverables are
- Appoint Transformation Lead and Team
- Lead on change
- Support volunteers through change better
- Support succession planning
- Testbed for new change projects
To make things as accessible as possible, we have designed a one-page plan which brings together the elements of the complete plan. Feel free to download it refer back to it when you need to!
If you want to read the full plan that was presented in November 2022 then you can find that plan here for download.
