GUIDE CAMP PERMIT

NOTE: The tester must hold the Guide camp licence or be an experienced camper. If you hold this permit you may take your Patrol to camp. If you would like to take this permit it is suggested that you encourage your Patrol to take their Camper Badge.

Before taking this permit you must:

• Be 13 or over

• Be recommended by your Patrol Leaders' Council

• Hold the Camper Advanced Badge

The Permit Test:

This takes the form of a Patrol Camp of at least two nights, which you must organise and run. This includes careful planning and use of time so that everyone can enjoy all you do. The test may be taken during your unit camp on the same or an adjacent site, providing you fulfil all the requirements as if your Patrol were camping on its own. During the camp you must:

• Keep bedding and clothing aired and dry.
• Store food appropriately, and see that meals are well cooked and served.
• Show the tester your first aid kit. Show how to treat one of the following: cuts, grazes, serious bleeding, burns and scalds.
• Take good care of tents and other equipment and clear the site up

Conditions for Patrol Camps

1. If your Patrol is camping on its own, away from a unit camp, your Guider and appropriate Adviser must approve the site.

2. The camp must be in private grounds within easy reach of an adult who has been approved by the Guider or appropriate Adviser and who has undertaken to be available if required.

3. The camp must be for at least two nights and not more than three nights.

4. Application form A/P (camp permit) must be used.

5. Written permission must be obtained from an adult with parental responsibility for each Guide to take part in the event (form G/C may be used to show consent).

6. Each Guide attending must complete form G/H (the Association's health form).

7. You may take three, four or five Guides with you provided that:

• In addition to the permit holder, at least one has camped before.

• All the Guides are members of the same unit.

Alternatively, the permit holder may take up to seven Guides with her provided that:

• In addition to the permit holder, at least two have camped before.

• The Guides are all members of her Patrol.

8. Adventurous activities, eg abseiling, boating or swimming, are not permitted unless a suitably qualified or experienced adult approved by the appropriate Adviser or local Commissioner is in charge of the activity.

9. All relevant Guide Association rules must be followed.