You are receiving this message because you are (or have recently been) listed as a volunteer or employee providing support to Western Region or Manitoba Scouting as a:

Please share this if you think someone who should have received it may have been missed. (e.g. someone with a recent role change, or who may have previously unsubscribed)

(Deleted very recently in error; no plan as yet on what's to be done.)

For now, if you need a PRC request letter or Financial Reporting guide/template, please contact WestRegistration@scouts.ca.

(The letters haven't changed in a while so if you have one saved within the past year - perhaps longer - it may still be "good", but if you're not sure or need one now, please contact us. If you can wait, please do.)

Financial reporting documents are also available via the BCY Admin page.

Participants can join any Group in the country that has space available during early registration period - not just the Group with which they've been registered for 2020.

Unlike the older MyScouts registration platform, Join Scouts defaults to a particular age-group (Section) based on the youth's age as of 31 December 2020.

While this "safety" generally prevents parents from registering themselves as Participants or their youth in the "wrong" Section, it may put some youth in an older or younger Section than what they'd prefer/what the Group believes appropriate.

Until 1 January through WestRegistration@scouts.ca, Groups can transfer requests of these youth to other Sections in their Group. (The "Transfer Participants" tab works only for the current Scouting year; beginning in January, you'll be able to move 2021 Participants yourself - that becoming then the "current year".)

For transfers to other Groups, please see "Participant Transfer".

2020 number (now) is for Extended year/Free Trial period only.

"Not Renewed" 2020 Participants can have membership extended in the same Section even if capacity has been reached - but no new can join.

2021 number (now) is for the new Scouting year

2020 members (and others) would be pushed to Waitlist if this capacity number is reached

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NOTE:

"Active" Section Scouters can register their youth in the Section even if capacity is reached; they bypass the Waitlist. ("Active" Group Committee members too.)

Groups that do not expect a fee to be collected on their behalf at registration do not have to set up fees. (It is no longer necessary for fees to be set up in order to allow online registration - only the National Fee has to be set.)

If you do expect fees - and you expect them for all 2021 registrations (or at least the ones from today onward), please be sure that your:

The date range is the registration period, not the program period for which people are registering.

Check your "Fees" tab - and edit as may be required.

If no 2021 fee has been set and you want one, please use the "Add Fee" option in the Group profile.

Groups that do not expect a fee to be collected on their behalf at registration do not have to set up fees. (It is no longer necessary for fees to be set up in order to allow online registration - only the National Fee has to be set.)

If you do expect fees - and you expect them for all 2021 registrations (or at least the ones from today onward), please be sure that your:

The date range is the registration period, not the program period for which people are registering.

Check your "Fees" tab - and edit as may be required.

If no 2021 fee has been set and you want one, please use the "Add Fee" option in the Group profile.

Although Groups can use "Transfer Participants" tabs in Sections to move your between their own Sections, this only works during the same Scouting year (so you can't move 2021 Participants ...yet).

Request assistance from WestRegistration@scouts.ca for transfers of:

**If a family approaches you, you're the Group the youth is leaving and you're:

Be aware: