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We\u2019ll make sure our teams and our way of volunteering fits with the time people want to give, and we have people with the right skills and support. We\u2019ll also make our processes more accessible by creating up to date recruitment and appointment tools.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EMake volunteering a positive experience, every day. To do this, volunteers are leading the redesign of future volunteers\u2019 experience, using a new co-led team approach.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003ECreate more engaging learning for volunteers and supporting volunteers to develop their skills when and where they need to.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EBuild the digital tools to enable all the above. This means developing a new fit-for-purpose membership system and a convenient way for members to learn, co-created with volunteers. They\u2019ll both be easy to use and accessible through scouts.org.uk.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003C/ul\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003EProgress a year on\u003C/h3\u003E\n\u003Cul\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EIn May 2023, we started rolling out the first cultural changes to volunteering locally. This focused on our new approach to volunteering in teams, what we call ourselves, and how we use Our Volunteering Culture statement to help set the right expectations. We\u2019ve also made changes to local Trustee Boards and improved the support available to them.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EMost of our essential learning, known as Growing Roots, has been developed in collaboration with around 200 volunteers\u2019 input and subject experts. We\u2019re now testing it locally so we can make it even better before we launch.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EWe have 105 Transformation Leads in place working across all 85 Counties, Areas and Regions in the UK. They\u2019re helping to prepare, inform, engage and communicate in their local patch about the upcoming changes.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EWe\u2019ve concluded our collaboration with Girlguiding, generously funded by the Pears Foundation, to build a new recruitment tool to help us welcome more volunteers to both organisations. We\u2019ve learned lots from each other about how to overcome shared challenges and the new tool will be part of the systems going live later in 2024.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EOur Digital Skills tool launched in the summer of 2023, and our work in this area was awarded Runner-Up in the Digital Leaders 100, Digital Skills category. The tool helps volunteers to build their skills and confidence. This is part of supporting lifelong learning and it\u2019s an important part of the support we\u2019re providing around our new systems.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EWe completed the digital build for our new learning and membership systems. The digital build has been warmly received by over 320 volunteers in testing. As data migration has proved even more complex than expected, we\u2019re now working on a longer timeline than forecast last year.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EWe\u2019ve improved our support, web guidance, and readiness information to help everyone understand and prepare for the changes coming locally.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003C/ul\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003EWhat\u2019s next\u003C/h3\u003E\n\u003Cul\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EWe\u2019ll work in a partnership with a nationally recognised organisation that is a leader in safety on movement-wide training.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EWe\u2019ll work in partnership with our Early Adopter Counties to improve how we welcome new volunteers, ahead of the wider changes to come for everyone.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EWe\u2019ll complete the data migration of all our member data into the new systems and make sure it\u2019s been thoroughly tested and all our digital tools work together.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EDuring the year ahead, we\u2019ll work with Counties to implement changes to volunteering in their area. 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