Permission slips, taken seriously.
Collect parental permissions in a few minutes and turn event check-in into a one-second glance. Built for volunteer-run youth groups running camps, trips and club nights.
Visit EventsThree tools, one family
Each product does one job well and shares the same discipline: safety states you can’t miss, plain words, and data that stays in the UK.
Know where everyone was last seen — and who to worry about.
Checkpoint check-ins for organised hikes and walking events. Walkers scan a QR at each checkpoint; event staff get a live safety dashboard. A party that stops moving turns red without anyone touching the screen.
Visit HikeCheckA fair place in the queue for every young person.
Manage waiting lists for oversubscribed sections and events, so families know where they stand and no young person is forgotten.
Visit WaitlistWho we are
Built by volunteers, for volunteers.
ScoutOS is developed by Milton Keynes District Scout Council — a volunteer-led charity that runs Scouting across Milton Keynes. Everything here started as a problem a leader hit on a real event: a pile of paper permission slips, a headcount that didn’t add up, a waiting list nobody could keep straight.
So we build the tools we wished we had, and share them with the movement. There’s no growth team and no venture backing — just leaders who care that a young person’s data is handled properly and that everyone comes home safely.
That’s why every ScoutOS product follows the same rules: safety states you can’t miss, plain British English, generous tap targets for cold hands and bright sun, and data that stays in the UK and is never sold.
- Not-for-profitMade for the movement, not for shareholders.
- Safety firstPermission and safety states are always unmissable — colour is never the only signal.
- UK dataYour data stays in the UK and is never sold or shared outside agreed channels.
- Built in the fieldDesigned by leaders who run the camps, hikes and club nights themselves.
Need a hand?
Help with a specific product lives on that product’s own site. For anything about Scouting itself — membership, safeguarding, running your section — the official Scouts UK help is the place to go. We’ll point you the right way.