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Guide Badge

  1. Show (wherever reasonable in a practical way) that you know the locality surrounding your home and Headquarters, up to 2 kilometres radius in boroughs and urban districts and up to 3 kilometres radius in rural districts.
  2. Either:

    Know the location of the following:

    1. Doctors, veterinary surgeons, dentists, hospitals and ambulance station.
    2. Fire station, police station, garages and public telephones.
    3. Bus stops, railway station(s) and routes of the buses and trains to surrounding areas.
    4. Local Scout Headquarters, public parks, theatres, cinemas, churches, museums, barracks, public conveniences, and any building or place of local interest.
    5. Homes of your District Commissioner, Scout Leader, Group Scout Leader and the Scouts in your Patrol.

    Or:

    For the Metropolitan Police Area the following alternative to requirements 2 (a), (b), (c) and (d) is permitted at the discretion of the District Commissioner:

    Have a sound general knowledge of which parts of the country are served by the mainline railways and how to reach the principal London railway terminals, the main motor coach stations, the air terminals, and twelve places of national importance (for example, the Tower of London, London Zoo and so on) from your Headquarters or home.

  3. Show that you understand how to use a map of the district and use it to point out at least six examples in requirement 2. You should guide the examiner by the quickest route to any place covered by the above.
  4. Give directions for a person travelling by public transport, cycle or car to a camp site approximately eight kilometres away.

Note:
The Patrol Leaders' Council after consultation with the examiner may, at its discretion, vary the area described in requirement 1 to exclude undesirable neighbourhoods, parks or other open spaces, and include an equivalent area.

   
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