Scouts Survival Skills Badge (Victorinox) | Activity Badge

Scout Survival Skills Activity Badge (Victorinox)

Be prepared for the unexpected! Develop your survival skills to be self-reliant in tough conditions and an awareness of natural resources and how to use them.

Together Victorinox and The Scout Association share a commitment to ensure that young people have the information and guidance available to be able to use, maintain and care for a Swiss Army Knife, ensuring all Scouts will have the opportunity to learn responsible ownership of this outdoors kit.

Victorinox are thrilled to partner the Scout Survival Skills badge, supporting a range of activities to help leaders deliver this area of the programme safely and inspire every Scout to develop their outdoor survival skills.

How to earn your badge:

1) Show that you know:

• first aid treatment you may need to use while on a survival event, considering you may have limited resources available
• how to construct different kinds of shelter
• how to build a fire and use basic lighting techniques. You should not use man-made materials such as paper or firefighters.
• how to maintain hygiene in a survival situation
• basic knife or multi-tool skills, including safety and sharpening and maintenance
• the correct use of international distress signals, using a whistle, torch, mirror or markers
• some basic actions to take while waiting rescue that will both keep you (and your group) safe and will assist your rescuers in locating you

2) Put together a personal survival kit.

3) With a group of at least three Scouts, take part in a survival exercise.

The group should:

• construct a shelter of natural or salvaged materials and sleep in it
• prepare a meal using raw ingredients that could have been found or caught
• cook all meals over an open fire
• cook without utensils, although you may use a knife.

Scouts Survival Skills Activity Badge Information and Activities