Figures published today by the youth movement - a year on since the launch of its Skills for Life strategy to increase provision in disadvantaged communities - showed there were 289 new sections formed in target areas in 2018.
The five-year strategy aims to open 500 new units in deprived areas by 2023 and has so far boosted membership by 20,000.
It builds on its drive announced in 2014 to focus taking the movement to the UK's most disadvantaged young people.
At that time the organisation had opened 1,280 new sections, a figure that has increased year on year.
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