Develop your survival skills to be self-reliant in tough conditions and an awareness of natural resources and how to use them.
How to earn your badge:
1. Show that you know:
- first aid treatment you may need to use while on a survival event, considering you may have limited resources available.
- how to construct different kinds of shelter.
- how to build a fire and use basic lighting techniques. You should not use man-made materials such as paper or firelighters.
- how to maintain hygiene in a survival situation.
- basic knife or multi-tool skills, including safety and sharpening and maintenance.
- the correct use of international distress signals, using a whistle, torch, mirror or markers.
- some basic actions to take while waiting rescue that will both keep you (and your group) safe and will assist your rescuers in locating you.
2. Put together a personal survival kit.
3. With a group of at least three Scouts, take part in a survival exercise.
The group should:
- construct a shelter of natural or salvaged materials and sleep in it
- prepare a meal using raw ingredients that could have been found or caught
- cook all meals over an open fire
- cook without utensils, although you may use a knife.
Tips
Guidance for leaders
- For requirement 2 – The young people could find other ways to demonstrate their survival kit. It could be a list, pictures cut from magazines, or a digital recreation of their survival kit.
Reproduced from the original post found on Scouts UK: https://www.scouts.org.uk/scouts/activity-badges/survival-skills/
