It’s a fun, informal badge to work towards individually or as a group. Select the activities that work best for your group and decide how to work towards earning the badge. Most activities can be adapted for indoors or outdoors and there are information sheets to help you explore the topics.
Challenge Badge
The Canal & River Trust Challenge Badge offers exciting activities to suit young people of all ages with six themed categories: History, Out & About, Community, Wildlife, Make & Do and Water Safety.
Notes for Scouting & Guiding Leaders
A brief introduction to completing the activities, ordering badges and finding out more.
History
Find out about the fascinating history of our canals, how people used to live and how to spot this history along our canals today.
Out and About
Spending time by water can improve our health and wellbeing. This section has lots of activities to enjoy when you are out and about.
Community
Canals play an important part in our communities. Explore ways to encourage everyone to make them places for us all to enjoy.
Wildlife
Our canals and rivers are home to hundreds of different plant species and wildlife. Explore canal and river habitats, enjoy spotting wildlife and building homes to help.
Make & Do
The Challenge Badge contains lots of creative activities. You can access all of them here.
Water Safety
Learn important messages about how to stay safe around water and what to do if you or someone else gets into trouble.
Order free badges
Complete this form to order free badges for your group.