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After taking action on social issues choose the best method to tell people what you’ve done, then get stuck in.

Courtesy of The Scout Association
https://www.scouts.org.uk/activities/tell-the-world/

Resources

Access to a computer
Camera or phone
A4 paper
Pens or pencils

Take it further
Depending on which ideas everyone chooses, you could combine this activity with a number of other badges, including: the Cub Artist Activity Badge, the Cub Communicator Activity Badge, the Cub Entertainer Activity Badge, the Cub Photographer Activity Badge, and the Digital Citizen Staged Activity Badge.

Safety: Online safety
Supervise young people when they’re online and give them advice about staying safe. See the activity instructions online for links and support information about this.

Instructions

1. Everyone should chat about how they took action. They should also talk about what they’ve learned about an issue, how they planned their action, and what they did to reflect on what they’ve learned.

2. Everyone should think about different ways people share messages. How do they find out about things like new music, or new films? How do companies advertise things, and charities raise awareness? How does everyone learn things?

3. Everyone should share their ideas – the person leading the game can decide whether they’ll go around the circle, or choose people with their hands up. Someone should volunteer to write down each idea, to make a big list of ways to share messages.

4. Everyone should talk about the ideas, and see if they can group them into categories.
- - Printed information: Posters, infographics, leaflets or displays.
- - Photo and video: Videos, slideshows, photos or adverts.
- - Performing arts: Songs, shows, plays or games.
- - Online information: Online news reports, blogs or vlogs.
- - Events: talks at schools and other Scout groups or setting up stalls in local areas.
- - Campaigns: Social media, petitions or letters to MPs.

5. Someone should write each category in the middle of a piece of paper. They should spread these out around the meeting place.

6. Split into groups. Give each group one of the categories, and a pen.
- - You should aim to have as many groups as you do categories. If you don’t have enough people to do this, you could give each group two categories, or not include the categories people are less interested in.

7. In their new category groups, everyone should think about what they could do in their category, why they might choose it, whether it’s realistic, and how they’d go about it. They should jot their ideas down on the piece of paper they stood by. We've included some questions below:
- - What kinds of activities fit into this category?
- - How does this category help you to tell the world?
- - How would you be able to do the activities in this category? Would you need any special equipment or resources? Would they be difficult to get?
- - Who’s your target audience – who are you trying to tell?
- - How can you involve the wider community, and tell lots of people beyond who you’re trying to reach?
- - Where would you do or show the activities in this category? Does this category and activity fit well with your issue?
- - Could you combine activities in your category? Could you combine your category with another category?
- - What could you ask your audience do to help the issue?

8. Each group should present their ideas to everyone else. What different things does their category contain? Why is it a good way to tell the world about what they’ve done?

9. Each group should put their pieces of paper in the middle of the room. They should now vote on their favourite three ideas – the ways they’d like to tell the world.

It’s up to the person leading the activity how everyone votes. They could put their hands up, or stick sticky dots on their top three.

10. The person leading the activity should count up all of the votes, and let everyone know which category has won.

11. Everyone should talk about how they’ll do the winning option together, as a whole group. People can also do other things on their own, if they want to.
12. Everyone should follow their plan, and use the winning option to tell the world about their community impact.


Change the level of challenge
If people are likely to be overwhelmed by choice (or unlikely to be realistic with their decisions), you could choose four or five ideas in advance for people to discuss and vote on.

You could allocate a team leader for each category – their job is to make sure everyone works as a team and gets a chance to share their opinion.

Young people can decide how much they want to challenge themselves – they can choose skills they’re familiar with, or ones they want to learn and improve.

You could also split into groups, and let each group choose how they want to tell the world.

Young people can be responsible for making and following their plan to tell the world.

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• Community Impact - Tell
• Community Impact - Tell