Poppy & Scouts Uniform Badge 2025

Scouts Stores are proud to introduce a range of products produced in partnership with The Royal British Legion (RBL) and the Scouts for 2025.

Remembrance Day is a national opportunity to remember the service and sacrifice of all those that have defended our freedoms and protected our way of life. We remember the Armed Forces, and their families, from Britain and the Commonwealth, the vital role played by the emergency services and those who have lost their lives as a result of conflict or terrorism.

This sew-on woven uniform badge features the two-petal Poppy and Scouts fleur de lis emblem with a design themed around the heritage stories 'Scouts Cooking on Coupons' and 'Digging for Victory'.

This badge can be worn on your uniform or sewn onto a blanket or poncho, and it's perfect for showing support for The Royal British Legion and Scouts partnership.

10% of net sales from the sale of all the products in the Scouts-Poppy Range will be paid to Royal British Legion Trading Limited (Company No. 4783730 registered in England and Wales), which gives its taxable profits to The Royal British Legion (Charity No. 219279) and Poppyscotland (Scottish Charity No. SC014096);

Wearing your Poppy Badge

Occasional badges relating to national programmes, activities, or events may be worn as decided by Scouts UK Headquarters.
Occasional badges can be worn for a period of three months from the date of the conclusion of the occasion unless exceptionally authorised by the County Commissioner in respect of special circumstances for a further period not exceeding nine months.

The Scouts and The Royal British Legion
Our Poppy Partnership for 2025

The Royal British Legion supports the Armed Forces community, past and present. Scouts was active throughout the world wars and, as such, we want to support The Royal British Legion to remember those who've been and continue to be affected by conflict.

As Scouts we’re privileged to partner with them. This is why we created a joint product range for our members and their families to wear on Remembrance Sunday – and beyond.

Scouts Cooking on Coupons

During the Second World War, Scout Volunteers faced a new challenge with the introduction of food rationing, and catering at camp had to consider what could be bought with food ration coupons.

In April 1940 The Scouter magazine offered advice about planning food for a camp. ‘ …every Scout will have to take his own sugar to camp. There need be no difficulty about butter because margarine is just as good and it is almost impossible to taste any difference. There are many parts of an animal which are not in the meat ration, and your butcher will tell you which they are. In any case you have fish, eggs, rice, cheese and various other foods which are quite as nutritious as meat.’.

Digging for victory 

People were encouraged to grow their own produce. ‘Dig for Victory’ was one of the most famous wartime campaigns. Parks and gardens were turned into allotments. By 1943 the number of allotments in the UK had doubled. Actions such as these were seen as a way of defying the enemy and ‘doing your bit’ for the war effort.
 
Many Scouts groups helped on farms, holding working camps instead of normal summer camps. At the end of one such camp the group reflected

‘Although the work was tiring, the camp was a success, and the Scouts returned feeling that they had been able to contribute in a small way to the national war effort, and the boys' health benefited by the outdoor work. Even if no actual Scouting work was done, we were carrying out our Scout Law in a better way than by merely enjoying ourselves.’