28/01/2026
Scouts are amazing....
Scouts Australia has joined
Resilient Youth Australia to
learn more about our 47,000
youth members.
We’ve compared a statistically significant
sample of Scouts aged 8-18 with 110,000 of
their peers across Australia.
And it seems Scouts are surprisingly resilient!
Is it the nights in tents instead of
warm homes?
Cooking their own food?
Playing in actual mud and rain instead of
on screens?
Running their own programs?
Developing leadership skills?
Growing their social circles locally, across
the State, across the world?
The data shows that Scouts score an average
of 7% higher across key wellbeing measures.
That means the Scouting program delivered
each week isn’t just fun, it’s transformative.
