We are looking for your feedback to help us shape our future priorities in Greater Manchester West to ensure we are supporting our amazing volunteers to provide Scouting to almost 5,000 young people across Salford, Trafford and Wigan.

We want to use your feedback to help shape our County priorities and vision, to guide us in achieving the National priorities of The Scouts. It’s important you take part to make sure we have a good understanding of how we can support you in your role.

There are two opportunities for you to have a voice in shaping our future.

Member Survey

We have created a member survey which is open to all volunteers in Greater Manchester West. The survey allows you to comment freely on all the key areas of our County including programme, volunteering development, support, campsites, youth shaped and safer scouting. You don’t have to answer every question, you can simply skip to the sections which are relevant to you.

Please click here to complete our 2025 Member Survey. The closing date for completing the survey is Saturday 22nd March 2025 at 10am.

Focus Groups

We want to further explore the feedback we receive from the member survey, therefore we will be holding four virtual focus groups to help us to gain further insights on how we can support our volunteers across the County. The focus groups will involve discussions on a range of topics, you will have the opportunity to speak openly.

We are looking for diverse group of volunteers from different backgrounds, ages, roles and Districts across the County to take part. 

  • Volunteering Development (incl. Welcome, Learning & Recognition) – Monday 10th March 2025, 7.00pm to 8.00pm
  • Programme (incl. Top Awards, Nights Away, Activities & International) – Monday 10th March 2025, 8.15pm to 9.15pm
  • Safer Scouting (incl. Safeguarding, Safety & Inclusion) – Monday 17th March 2025, 7.00pm to 8.00pm
  • Support (incl. Communications and Growth) – Monday 17th March 2025, 8.15pm to 9.15pm

Please click here to express your interest in taking part in our focus groups, we will send you a Microsoft Teams meeting invite following your registration. Registration closes at 8pm the day before the focus Group is due to take place.

We will be looking at further opportunities to get feedback from our young people, as their voice is equally as important as yours in ensuring our County is youth shaped.

If you have any questions about these two opportunities for us to listen, or would like to share your feedback in another way please do not hesitate to get in touch by emailing, jacob.bond@gmwscouts.org.uk.