Youth leadership - sometimes it’s the small things

[Cambridgeskip]

Small incident with my scouts last night that really made me smile.

we had an evening punting on the river in Cambridge. For those unfamiliar it’s peculiar to Cambridge and Oxford and a handful of other places with shallow rivers. 
 

Anyway as we could only put 5 scouts on each punt it didn’t quite work out as punting in patrols. So we asked the scouts to organise themselves into groups of 5. So far so good.

 

But we’ve got that one scout who is a bit of an outsider. Goes to a different school to the rest, comes into scouts from quite a long way out. Doesn’t fit in quite as well as the rest. And then…. I saw one of the PLs make a bee line for him and bring him into her group with a big smile. 
 

It’s a small thing but one of those moments when you realise you have the right kids as youth leaders.