Scouts Seed Bomb Challenge

Welcome to our Scouts Seed Bomb Challenge

To support our environment, and to provide more spaces for bees to collect pollen, we've created the Scouts Seed Bomb Challenge. The aim of the Challenge is to encourage Scout Groups to adopt local green spaces and bomb them with wild-flower seeds; this will create beautiful spaces and also improve local environments.

We're providing meeting plans, risk assessments and other resources to make the Challenge as easy to run locally as is possible. We're also selling (at cost) packs to create the seed bombs and fun badges for young people who complete the challenge.

Become a Challenge Ambassador

Has your group or section completed the Seed Bomb Challenge and loved it? We're looking for groups and sections to share their stories completing the Challenge to help encourage others to take part. If you're interested, please complete the Challenge Ambassador Form!

About us

The Seed Bomb Challenge is being run by James Barber and Ed Phillips for our Scouts of the World Award (SOWA). This award requires participants to partake in a discovery event before completing an 80-hour project on one of the themes of sustainability, the environment or peace; as well as a presentation about the project.

As you may assume, we've chosen to do our project on the theme of the environment. We're specifically looking at encouraging local widling to create more spaces for bees to collect pollen, which will hopefully support local bee populations. Our project will involve creating resources and packs for a Challenge to enable sections across the UK to help improve their local environments.

James Barber

James is the Deputy County Youth Commissioner for Surrey Scouts, and the County Secretary in Merseyside. He has been a Scout since he started in Beavers and has made his way up through the sections, obtaining all the Chief Scout's Awards on the way, before earning his Queen's Scout Award and Gold Duke of Edinburgh's Award in 2019. He's currently studying Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Liverpool and runs a small company, Jamescape.

Ed Phillips

Ed is the District Youth Commissioner for Woking, and an Assistant Explorer Scout Leader for Horsell Martians. He has been a Scout since he started in Beavers and has made his way up through the sections, obtaining all the Chief Scout's Awards on the way, before earning his Queen's Scout Award and Gold Duke of Edinburgh's Award in 2019. He's currently completing an apprenticeship in mechanical engineering.