Why Scout leaders choose Scoutworks
Managing your Scout group should be simple, efficient, and actually enjoyable
Simple tasks take seconds
Update attendance, manage badges, and communicate with parents in just a few taps.
True group management
Unlike OSM's section silos, manage leaders across single or multiple sections from one place. Centralised group-level visibility and administration that actually works.
Built by Scout leaders
Every feature designed by people who actually run Scout groups and understand your challenges.
What attracted us was the simplicity of the product and the fact that it used the group as the main focus of which the sections were part.
Built for Scout nights, not office desks
Scout leaders don't have laptops at meetings. You take the register in a hall, check badges between activities, and look up a medical note at camp. Scoutworks is built for your phone and opens like an app from your home screen. If the signal drops, the pages you already opened stay readable, and your changes save once you're back online.
- One-tap attendance marking
- A printable attendance sheet for halls with no signal
- Instant access to member info
- Fast loading on any connection
AI in Scoutworks
It does the drafting. You do the deciding.
Scoutworks will write the term plan, the email and the risk assessment. It will not publish, send or sign off any of them — a leader edits and approves every word. And no young person’s name, address or medical detail is ever sent to an AI provider.
A term planned in under a minute
Pick the badge your section is working towards and let Scoutworks draft every night of the term — a title, leader notes, and two or three activities, each tagged with the requirement it covers. Every week arrives as a draft you edit.
The email to parents, written or checked
Draft it from a sentence, polish what you have written, or have it read back to you and told what is missing — the reply-by date, the cost with no way to pay it, the kit list nobody attached. You still press Send.
On our AI account, or on yours
A monthly allowance of generations is included in the price. Or a group admin connects your own OpenAI, Anthropic, Google or xAI account, and every AI feature runs on it instead — no cap, and your group picks who does the processing.
Everything you need to manage your Scout Group
Members, badges, events, money and more, in one app for the whole group
- Members & PeopleClean data from day one. Waiting lists that rank themselves, a Transition Planner, onboarding, care plans, a parent portal, a youth portal and always-ready census reporting.12 features
- Badges & AwardsBadge progress worked out for you across every UK badge scheme. Top Awards that add themselves up, a Badge Forecast, parent and youth evidence, nation awards, custom badges and badge stock.12 features
- Finance & PaymentsFull accounting ledger, flexible budgets, zero-fee payment collection via GoCardless, fundraising campaigns, Gift Aid reports, and a proper claims workflow with mileage and receipt scanning.13 features
- Hire & BookingsTurn your hall, site, equipment, or minibus into income. A complete booking engine with a public hire portal, tiered and day-and-night pricing, deposits, repeat bookings, custom rules, and open-banking payments that post straight to your ledger.9 features
- Events & Programme PlanningA Programme Planner that works back from your badge goals, four event types with draft-to-publish control, waiting lists and phased sign-ups, cross-group sharing, a risk assessment wizard, fire roll call, and equipment with QR tracking.19 features
- Camps & OutdoorsThe bit everyone actually joined Scouting for. Find a campsite, plan a route and print the card, lay out the site and the tents to scale, plan camp meals so the shopping does itself, price the camp fairly, and watch every team on one live map.10 features
- Platform & AdministrationUnlimited sections, a team page, branded email with your own inbox, global search and saved views, document sharing, task boards, API keys, and an app you can install on any phone.13 features
- Security & AccessSign in with Face ID, Touch ID, a security key, or your Google or Microsoft account. Two-factor with backup codes. Roles, reversible suspension, a subject access request tracker, and data hosted in the EU.7 features
- Governance & ComplianceA complete Trustee toolkit — trustee dashboards, a Strategic Risk Register, a Trustee Duties calendar with reminders and an iCal feed, a Conflict of Interest Register, an Asset Register, a Compliance Health Score and a Board Pack PDF.16 features
- DistrictsWhat needs you, your district team, waiting list demand, Young Leaders, district events, census and safety insights, broadcasts, trustee registers and charity monitoring: everything your district team needs in one place.17 features
- InsightsNine insight dashboards, figures where you work, and reports that run in the background — so every leader has the full picture, wherever they are in the app.10 features
Start with a free trial
for six months
Then a flat £150/year, VAT included. No tiers. No surprises.
- Unlimited sections included
- All features, no add-ons
- In-app GoCardless payments
- No platform fees on payments
- Mobile-first, works everywhere
- New features added regularly
- Free for districts and the units they run
Cancel anytime
Shipping every week
A platform that gets better every week
We ship improvements every week. Here's what's coming next.
See full changelogTransparency & Retention Controls
Plain-language data notices for every user, plus group-level settings to see and adjust how long records are kept. Consent tracking is already live in Members; this adds the retention controls.
Direct Sign-Up for District Events
Districts can already run their own events and invite their groups. Next, parents can also sign up direct, not only through their group, with membership checked and payment taken once by the district.
Ask Scoutworks
Type a question into the command menu — "who has not paid for camp?", "take me to Beavers' register" — and get the answer or the page, without learning where anything lives. Scoped to what your role can already see.
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