Additional numbers are needed despite more than 2,200 volunteers recruited last year, she warns.
“Of course, as volunteers, we know all too well that demand greatly outstrips supply," she said.
“Although we’d love to welcome more young people into the movement, we need more adult volunteers to create new places. While in the last year we welcomed over 2,200 additional volunteers, we still need more.”
Her plea comes amid a widespread volunteer recruitment crisis across the charity sector post pandemic.
This year’s Big Help Out volunteering event, which took place over three days last month and involved hundreds of charities including the Scouts, saw 700,000 fewer people take part than in 2023, when the event was first held to mark King Charles III’s coronation.
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