Scouts DIY Activity Badge (Speedy Tool Hire)

Scouts DIY Activity Badge (Speedy Tool Hire)

Speedy Tool Hire are helping to educate Scouts about tools, how to use them and tool safety, whilst also partnering with Scouts UK to assist groups with projects and renovations.

Speedy also wish to open the eyes of young people to the many career paths in construction.

Build, Modify or Repair – Develop your DIY acumen, and learn how to deal with emergencies and tackle DIY projects.

The Scouts and Speedy Tool Hire Partnership

We are excited to announce our brand new partnership with Speedy Hire, which will empower young people to gain practical skills in DIY and help foster a passion for engineering and construction.

Through this partnership, young people will learn the importance of using safety gear when doing DIY projects, ensuring they understand how to keep themselves and others safe while working with tools.

The new activities align with Speedy Hire’s support of RoSPA’s National Accident Prevention Strategy Report , which highlights the importance of teaching children how to avoid accidents in homes and communities.

How to earn your badge:

Show you can work safely and know about the following:

• hazard symbols and signs (for dangers such as toxic, flammable, irritant, electrical danger or slippery surface)
• safety equipment (such as goggles, gloves, masks, ear defenders)
• how and where to turn off mains supplies (such as water, electricity and gas) to the house.

Learn how to safely isolate individual electrical circuits at the consumer unit.

• This includes letting other users know that work is being carried out

Show or explain how you would deal with four DIY emergencies.

For example:

• unblocking a sink
• patching a leaking pipe
• adjusting the float arm of a cistern
• changing a lightbulb
• hinge a door back in place
• fixing a door bell ringer
• stabilising a wobbly stair rail
• repairing a tear in clothes or upholstery
• removing common stains eg ink, wine, and coffee

Take an active part in two major DIY projects, indoors or outside.

You could:

• prepare and paint, paper or tile the walls of a room
• prepare and paint woodwork or furniture
• fit a curtain track and hang curtains
• make a freestanding storage unit or put up shelves
• cover a floor with vinyl overlay, lino, tiles or carpet
• hang a door and fit or repair locks and other door furniture
• lay a patio, decking or path
• build a low wall, barbecue, gate or fence
• carry out routine service checks on a car, then clean and polish the car

Alternatively, you could do any other projects of a similar skill level. Agree what you’ll do with an adult who is skilled in the relevant areas.

Requirements can be adapted to suit each young persons abilities.