Ms Dubheasa Kelly:

One aspect of starting a scout group in a local community is it is community-driven. It is the local community to which we respond and with which we engage about opening a scout group. Normally somebody from the area picks up the telephone and asks, "Where is my local scout group?" or "How would I go about setting one up?" People engage with the national office and details are sent to the local development officers. The community person is then asked to go out into his or her community to rally the troops and gather as many people as possible who would be interesting in setting up a scout group and volunteering as scout leaders. It takes a number of months to train the adults. It takes significant time on the professional side to engage with them and it is only after all of the adults have been trained and when they are ready to engage with the children that we recruit them.