Uniforms

What the parents need to buy

Uniforms are available online at the Scout Shop The shop 664 West Broadway in Vancouver unfortunately closed, so everyting must be ordered online. The Group brings in uniforms to sell to parents to save them shipping.

• Beavers should purchase a brown vest, a hat and optionally, a Pond Map. The Pond Map can be downloaded.
• Cubs should purchase a grey shirt and optionally, a Jungle Map, which replaces the Cub Book. The Jungle Map can be downloaded.
• Scouts should purchase a green shirt and optionally, a Canadian Trails Map, which replaces the Scout Book. The Canadian Trails Map can be downloaded.
• Venturers should purchase a purple shirt.
• Rovers should purchase a red shirt.
• Scouters should purchase a shirt, which will be reimbursed by the Group. The Scouter Handbook, is online at the Canadian Path website.
• There are lots of other optional things to purchase there like vests and campfire blankets.
• Note that the Pond Map, Jungle Map, and Canadian Trails maps are available for download from the Canadian Path website.

Investiture

Group specific items (Fraser Valley Council Crest and 12th New Westminster Group Crest), a Group necker (scarf), woggle, and a Tail (for Beavers only) and other Section-specific uniform insignia, will be presented when the member is invested into the Section. Often the parents assist when their child is invested, particularly in Beavers.

Investiture can happen at a meeting or a camp as decided by the Section leadership team.

Beavers

The Group Commissioner will provide the Sections with 12th New Westminster Crest and neckers for the youth. The individual Sections should arrange to get the other items required for investiture from the Scout Shop. The youth investitures are typically done by the Section Scouters.

The items that the Section Scouters need to purchase include: Fraser Valley Council Crest, tails, plastic woggles, lodge badges, and service stripes. When appropriate, top Section award insignia should also be presented.

The Personal Progression badges (circular brown/blue/white badges) are presented following the year-end review or the personal progression review.

Cubs

The Group Commissioner will provide the Sections with 12th New Westminster Crest and neckers for the youth. The individual Sections should arrange to get the other items required for investiture from the Scout Shop. The youth investitures are typically done by the Section Scouters.

The items that the Section Scouters need to purchase include: Fraser Valley Council Crest, Runner/Tracker/Howler woggles, Lair insignia, Canadian Path badges (moved up from Beavers), and service stripes. When appropriate, top Section award insignia should also be presented.

The Personal Progression badges are presented following the year-end review or the personal progression review.

Scouts

The Group Commissioner will provide the Sections with 12th New Westminster Crest and neckers for the youth. The individual Sections should arrange to get the other items required for investiture from the Scout Shop. The youth investitures are typically done by the Section Scouters.

The items that the Section Scouters need to purchase include: Fraser Valley Council Crest, personal progression badges, regular/APL/PL/Troop Leader woggles, Patrol insignia, Canadian Path badges (moved up from Cubs), and service stripes. When appropriate, top Section award insignia and other awards should also be presented.

The Personal Progression badges are presented following the year-end review or the personal progression review.

Venturers

The Group Commissioner will provide the Sections with 12th New Westminster Crest and neckers for the youth. Woodbadge woggles are also presented as appropriate. The individual Sections should arrange to get the other items required for investiture from the Scout Shop. The youth investitures are typically done by the Section Scouters.

The items that the Section Scouters need to purchase include: Fraser Valley Council Crest, personal progression badges, Venturer woggles, Patrol insignia, Canadian Path badges (moved up from Scouts), and service stripes. When appropriate, top Section award insignia and other awards should also be presented.

The Personal Progression badges are presented following the year-end review or the personal progression review.

Rovers and Scouters

For Scouters, the Group Commissioner or a senior Section Scouter will provide the necker and all required insignia, and perform the investiture. When Scouters are invested, they receive Group-specific crests (Fraser Valley Council and 12th New Westminster Group), a Group necker, Respect in Sport Badge, and a Section-specific role insignia for the Section(s) in which they are active Scouters. They will receive a leather Woodbadge woggle from the Group Commissioner when their Woodbadge for the Canadian Path training is complete. Often the child of the Scouter assists with the investiture by putting the necker on their parent.

Insignia Placement

Only specific items are to be sewn onto uniforms. All other patches for events, camps, etc. are to sewn onto a campfire blanket. Items that are allowed on a uniform are limited to the following:

• Group Crest (12th New Westminster),
• note that the Area Crests (Coho) are no longer part of the uniform,
• Council Crests (Fraser Valley),
• Scouting Awards (Commendations and medals),
• Service Stripes,
• Outdoor Adventure Skills Badges,
• Personal Achievement Badges,
• Awards (Duke of Edinburgh, World Scout Environment Programetc.),
• Top Section Award,
• Agency Awards (First Aid, etc.),
• Religion in Life Emblem,
• 1967/2007/2017 Anniversary badges,
• Religious Affiliation,
• Language Strip,
• FLEX (Cubs)/FAST (Scouts)/FOCUS (Venturers) Badge,
• Lodge/Six/Patrol Insignia,
• Canadian Path (Link) Badges showing progression between Sections, and
• Role Insignia (Scouters and sometimes Venturers/Rovers).
• Respect in Sport Badge (Scouters and sometimes Venturers/Rovers).

Parents need to know where to sew items onto the uniforms. This information can be found on the Scouts Canada wiki page. The old (pre-Canadian Path) placement was as follows Media:insignia-placement-2012.pdf Canadian Path (Link) Badges are given to youth as they move from Section to Section and can be presented at Swim Up / Leap Up / Climb Up / Swagger Up or the next meeting. These go on the bottom of the left sleeve.

Service Stripes go on the lower left sleeve and represent the number of years as both a youth and a Scouter in the Scouting program, including the current year. White ones represent one year and the gold ones represent five years. Anyone transferring from the Guiding program can count their years in that program also. Myscouts keeps track of the years, but it is often inaccurate. The Group Commissioner should keep track of these years of service.

General

Periodically, we need to order new Group neckers and Group crests. These can be ordered from Zone West at (604) 460-2828, http://www.zonewest.net/ The cost is ~$2.00 for crests and ~$8.00-$10.00 for neckers, depending on the number ordered.