Seeing as Venturers are actually older scouts we do have an award scheme.
The award scheme in Venturers consists of four parts
The Venturing Skills Award
The Queen's Scout Award
The Endeavour Award
The Major Interest Award
The Venturing Skills Award
Nearly all venturers complete this award at some stage. This is the first award that a venturers earns and they cannot progress onto their Queen Scout until they have earned their Venturing Skills. For a venturer to earn their Venturing Skills they must go on a hike with their unit and do a series of skills considered necessary to survive in the bush. They also need to explain to their examiner how the award scheme works in venturers.
The Queen Scout Award
Probably the most prestigious award in scouting, the Queen Scouts is achieved by a venturer who has first completed their venturing skills. The Queen Scout award is divided into four sections; personal growth, adventurous activities, leadership development and community services. For each of the four sections there are also another three to five subsections. All of these subsections must be completed in order for a venturer to gain their queen scout. Venturers must find an examiner for each subsection, get approval of the unit council and the District Venturer Council (DVC), complete the activity and then get the examiner to sign off on the activity. Proposal forms are necessary for most activities and can be obtained from your leader along with the guidelines for leaders, venturers and examiners.
The Endeavour Award
This award is approved for Venturers in South Australia. The badge will be worn in the same space as the Queen's Scout Award and removed when/if the Queen's Scout Award is gained.
Venturers must complete certain elements of the Queen's Scout Award to be eligible for this award. These elements include the Venturing Skills Award, Expeditions 1 and several of the Unit Council approved Award areas.
The Major Interest Award
The major interest award is an extra award for venturers that have a major interest in a specific area of the Queen Scout Award Scheme and is done in extension. A venturer will generally have to complete an extra 50 hours towards this task. Anything can be used but it does require both unit council and DVC approval.]