ICV
INTERNATIONAL, COMMUNITY, VALUES
What are ICV's?
ICVs are the International, Community and Values activities that are required in order to achieve your awards.
At Platinum level you are required to complete at least 2 ICV activities, at Diamond it's 4 and at King's 6 in total. These are accumulative as you progress through to the next level of award, and you can only do a maximum of 2 activities per category.
As you progress through the award levels, it is expected that you will put an increasing level of effort into your ICV activities too.
From 2026, with the Explorer badge relaunch, there is now a new way in which these ICVs can be completed, through completing Challenge Awards.
You are currently allowed to still also use the old style ICVs, which you can find on the Scout website:
EARNING YOUR ICVs
Complete an activity badge at Explorers
You will start by earning activity badges within your usual Explorer unit meetings.
They all have the same structure of requirements, in which you must complete 3 out of 5 to earn the badge:
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Discover - Learn something new
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Experience - Try something out
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Mobilise - Bring others together
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Solve - Fix a problem
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Create - Bring something into existence
Upgrade it to a Challenge Award
There are 6 Challenge Awards, which can count as your 6 ICVs that you need to have completed by Kings level.
To complete a Challenge Award, you must complete all 6 requirements:
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Discover - Learn something new
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Experience - Try something out
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Mobilise - Bring others together
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Solve - Fix a problem
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Create - Bring something into existence
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Reflection - reflect on your challenge experience
As these awards follow the same requirement structure as the activity badges, you can 'top up' your activity badges to a relevant Challenge Award by completing the missing requirements and a reflection.
It is up to you which Challenge Award you choose to upgrade to, but it must be relevant to the activity badge you've completed and also have an international, community or values theme to it.
You can only complete each Challenge Award once.
Increasing effort level as you progress
As you progress through the awards, the effort and time committed to your ICVs is expected to increase.
PLATINUM ICVs
Take an active part in the activity badge, and complete additional activities to upgrade to a challenge award.
DIAMOND ICVs
Take more responsibility, leading an activity, and complete additional activities to upgrade to a challenge award.
KINGS ICVs
Lead an activity badge for your unit, and complete additional activities to upgrade to a challenge award.
Signing off your Challenge Awards
The Challenge Awards will be managed and signed off by your Explorer unit leader.
To get these signed off, you need to complete the evidence form. You will fill in what activities you completed for your activity badge, and detail your top up activities.
Your leader will then assess if you have met the Challenge Award theme and time commitments.
Once you have achieved your Challenge Award, you will then submit this evidence form (and supporting photo/document evidence of what you complete) to the ICV team at Hexnet by email or via the form below.
SUBMITTING YOUR EVIDENCE
To officially sign off your ICVs and nights away, please complete the forms below.
If you want to sign off an old style ICV, please first get approval from the team to ensure that your activity will be satisfactory. And once completed, email the ICV team with full details on what you did, how long it took and what you have taken away from the experience, attaching any photo or document evidence.
Old style ICV?
LOG NIGHTS AWAY
Your nights away must have been as an Explorer or young leader. Please log them below:
ICV SIGN OFF
Once you have completed your Challenge Award ICV, fill in the form below to get it signed off: