David works in financial services, but he says, ‘outside of my 9 to 5 I spend as much time outdoors on the water doing whatever that I possibly can’. He is also the County Training Manager at South London Scouts and I wanted to talk to him about how he felt the last 18 months had impacted the young people he works with. ‘On a positive note, I think the last 18 months have been great in that there’s been worldwide connections which would have never happened, we’ve met people, made new friends got people interested in different things that would never have happened. But on the flip side to that there’s a massive gap in the socialization of young people. There’s a lot of anxiety that’s come in that definitely wasn’t there before.’ 

David recognises, ‘Covid is a big restriction at the moment and obviously whilst we need to be mindful… I think we should be pushing to get young people outdoors doing different activities’. That said he says, ‘I generally find that every activity that we [South London Scouts] run will be pretty much sold out instantaneously because they’re so keen at the moment to get back doing things which is so great’. In fact, there is something for everyone at the Scouts for both girls and boys from 4 years old upwards to adult volunteers. David explains, ‘We’ve got Squirrels starting off super young, we’ve now got Cubs coming in, we then got Cub Scouts and really there’s a place in scouting from every age really up to adults’. What is he looking forward to in the future, ‘Just getting back into the proper outdoors. We have a general saying in scouting that there’s no such thing as bad weather just inappropriate clothing’. The interview was recorded on Monday 18th October at 12pm BST.

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