Manager & Supporter Training LMU

Using Resources (LMU)

Learning Methods:

  • Financial and Physical Resources Independent Learning
  • Executive Committees and Being a Trustee Independent Learning
  • Decision Making Independent Learning
  • Skills of Management Course
  • Meeting the Challenges Course
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    Topics Covered:

  • Methods of decision making and prioritisation.
  • Decision making structures within local and national Scouting and how you fit into them (both in making decisions and seeking decisions to be made).
  • Ensuring sufficient physical resources and adequate income for local Scouting as part of the Executive Committee.
  • Sources of income for local Scouting.
  • Working with the local Executive Committee and others to ensure that local Scouting has to support its work with
    youth members.
  • Fundraising and the appropriate management of funds collected (policies, statement of purpose, etc.)
  • Below explains what the learner is required to do to satisfy the criteria for the LMA section. Remember all your life skills and experience can be taken into when meeting with your Training Adviser.

    To validate this module learners will need to complete the following: Evidence may include one or more of the following: Requires Revalidation Relevant Role
    Give two examples of decisions you can make yourself and two examples of decisions you would need to refer. Describe the process, including:

  • The information needed to inform your decision
  • Who else should be involved in the decision making?
  • A discussion with your Training Adviser
  • Written details of decision which can be made and those which need to be referred
  • Yes All
    Explain how you ensure that key knowledge, relevant to our role, is captured, stored and used to improve the operation of local Scouting, both during and following your appointment.
  • Discussion with your Training Adviser
  • Written details of the key knowledge, relevant to your role, is captured, stored and stored
  • Written details of how you ensure the knowledge you hold is accessible by those who follow you in your role
  • Yes All
    Demonstrate how you ensure that all adults in local Scouting have the right information provided in a timely manner and in the most effective way
  • Discussion with your Training Adviser
  • Written details of how you ensure adults in local Scouting have the right information provided to them
  • Yes All
    Explain which resources you are responsible for providing to enable
    adults in local Scouting to work effectively.
  • Discussion with your Training Adviser
  • List of the resources for which you are responsible
  • Yes All
    In addition, where relevant to your role, you will also need to complete the following:
    Demonstrate and describe your contribution, as part of the local Executive Committee, in ensuring that appropriate financial measures are in place
  • Discussion with your Training Adviser
  • Written details of your role in the local Executive Committee
  • Minutes of meetings showing your contribution related to financial measures
  • Yes Executive Committee Members
    Demonstrate and describe your contribution, as part of the local Executive Committee, in ensuring that there is an adequate income for local Scouting including the identification of other income sources such as grants.
  • Discussion with your Training Adviser
  • Written details of your role in the local Executive Committee
  • Minutes of meetings showing your contribution related to ensuring adequate income and alternative income streams
  • Yes Executive Committee Members
    Demonstrate and describe your contribution, as part of the local Executive Committee, in ensuring that local Scouting has sufficient physical resources to support its work with youth members
  • Discussion with your Training Adviser
  • Written details of your role in the local Executive Committee
  • Minutes of meetings showing your contribution related to ensuring sufficiency of physical resources
  • Yes Executive Committee Members
    Demonstrate and describe your contribution, as part of the local Executive Committee and/or other teams, to minimise the negative impact and maximise the positive impact that local Scouting has on the environment
  • Discussion with your Training Adviser
  • Written details of your role in the local Executive Committee
  • Minutes of meetings showing your contribution related to environmental impact
  • Yes Executive Committee Members

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    The King continues a long tradition of the monarch giving their Patronage, dating back to 1912. This was when Scouts was granted its Royal Charter and HM George V became our first Patron.

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