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Description

A game to help young people share their ideas for the future of Scouts in our 2025 strategy and see who agrees with them.

Resources

Pens/Pencils
Paper

Instructions

Gather everyone together and explain that they’ll be doing an activity to help them give feedback and what they like and what they’d improve about Scouts.

Explain that they’re going to play a game of commonality. The aim of the game is to have something in common with everyone.

To start the game ask the first question, which is ‘What is the best thing about Scouts?’

Choose one person in the group to go first. They should say what their one word answer is, such as ‘Adventure’ or ‘Kayaking’. They should then write this word on a piece of paper and hold it up for people to see.

Ask the group if anyone also has this in common. If only one person agrees, they make a chain by standing next to the first person. If more than one person agrees, then play Rock-Paper-Scissors to decide who joins the chain. Only one person can join the chain at each turn.

Now, the person who joined the chain then shares their word, which should be a different word to the first one. Again, they write down their word and hold it up.

Again, asks the group if anyone agrees with the new word and repeat the process. If one person agrees, they join the chain. If multiple people agree, they play Rock-Paper-Scissors to decide who joins.

Once the chain’s complete, ask the group to rank themselves in order, from the most popular answer or most important word to least popular or least important. This could be also be done in smaller groups.

When everyone’s finished, note down the order people are in.

Ask people how they came to this decision. You could see if anyone agrees or disagrees and why

Now, repeat this activity with a second question, which is ‘What do you get out of Scouts?’

Once this questions has been ranked, note down the answers again.

Now, ask everyone to get into smaller groups and think of a plan of how their answers could help us to plan Scouts in the future, both for your own group and for Scouts across the UK. You could ask some prompt questions, such as ‘What can Scouts do to keep being fun/giving young people skills for life?’ and ‘What does Scouts need to change to keep being fun/giving young people skills for life?’

At the end of the session, an adult should submit their group’s ranked answers from both questions to the Smartsheet form. You could also include any notes of the plans made by the groups.

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