Delivering Programme Resources

Wednesday 21st July 2021

Resources to support leaders in delivering the new programmes will be published three times a year. The new termly resources will feature programme ideas and activities through a set of Activity Cards, Themed Activity Cards and a Programme Planner for each term.

The terms will be:

Autumn         Sep to Dec
Spring            Jan to Apr
Summer        May to Aug

All of the resources will provide leaders with support in planning their programme and are not designed to be a syllabus which has to be followed.

The resources will build on those that have been published over the last 12+ months as part of our alternative programming responding to the pandemic. The resources also build on those that have been going out termly since the launch of the new Anchors and Juniors programmes in 2019. We therefore hope that many leaders will already be familiar with the style and how to access them.

Our programme resources are available to ALL leaders online through the Programme Hub as well as through Online Brigade Manager (OBM). To help kick-start the new session a one-time only printed set of the Autumn 2021 termly resources have been sent to the Leader-in-Charge of each age group with the Autumn 2021 Gazette. Following this, from Spring 2022 printed termly resources will only be sent out based on an optional subscription at a cost of £17 per age group per session.

Printed Termly Resources 

Subscribe to receive a printed set of resources for age groups in your Company at: http://dev.boys-brigade.org.uk/printed-termly-subscription/. Where leaders are subscribing to receive printed resources they may want to consider purchasing a ‘Programme Storage Box’ (available from BB Supplies) to help keep all your activity cards in one accessible place.

To provide additional support to leaders monthly programme focused emails will be sent out and monthly webinars open to all leaders will provide reminders about activities for the next month, signpost external resources and provide opportunities for leaders to share good practice and ideas.

Activity Cards

Using the Activity Cards, a leader will be supported to deliver a dynamic and varied programme each session and avoid repetition. Each term a set of Activity Cards will provide leaders with ‘ready-to-go’ activities which means the card contains all the information a leader needs to organise the activity successfully. There will be one Activity Card for each of the 6 Activity Areas each term.

Themed Activity Cards 

These will bring together activities from several of the Activity Areas based on a theme with 4 themed Activity Cards being delivered each term. Usually, these cards will feature at least 5 activities from at least 4 different Activity Areas. These Themed Activity Cards will help leaders to identify how themes can be helpful in providing variety and balance in the delivery of the programme. It might not be the case that you could run all the activities on one meeting night and there is no expectation that you should, again these are ‘Pick and mix’ activities from which you can choose those that will work best with your young people.

Programme Planner 

The Programme Planner will be provided termly for each age group and will cover every week within that term – providing ideas, highlighting national festivals and awareness days, signposting resources and identifying what fully resourced activities will be provided for that term. This resource will be provided a full term in advance of the period it covers, so for the Autumn term which covers September through to December, the programme planner will usually be published in May. Delivering this a term in advance will support leaders in their programme planning and highlight which activities will be resourced through the Activity Cards and Themed Activity Cards, so leaders know what to expect in advance of the activity cards being published.