Basic Training Course For Troop Leaders.
Financing and Budgeting
A scout Troop must have funds to maintain its operation and activities. Scouting activities need funding like other organizations existing in the community E.G. P.T.A, S.K. A good Troop Leader must be a resourceful leader knows how to look for funding for his troop. Why? Because without money or resources to finance the activities, planned by the troop will not prosper member of the Troop committee will not remain long in the scouting movement, If every activity that needs money always care from his pocket or from his parents. The Troop budget
Budget- Amount of money that is available for required for, required for, or assigned to a particular purpose.
Troop budget is the business-like a way to plan and provide for the financial needs of a troop. Business and industry have accepted this budget system as the most logical and successful means of planning and meeting financial obligations. Troops of long standing use a troop budget successfully because: * It ensure the prompt registration of the troop. * It develops in the scout a sense of responsibility for the continuity of the life of their troop. The Troop dues collection is a system of saving for his registration and contribution to the upkeep of the troop. * The troop budget is financial for receiving and spending money, it must reflect the resources and needs of the troop based on its annual program of activities for the coming year. It is the best to draft a budget soon after the patrol Leader’s Council finalizes its annual schedule of activities for the coming years. The draft of the proposed budget is usually prepared jointly by the senior patrol leader, the troop treasurer and the troop leader. The advice of a member of the institutional scouting committee (IS) who’s familiar with budget.

TROOP SOURCES OF BUDGETARY RESOURCES * Regular troop dues paid by scout in the troop. * Any unspent balance from the previous years budget. * Revenue producing projects undertaken by the troop/ * Donations or grants from civic – spirited members of the troop committee or the sponsoring institution.

Expected income from the above sources are calculated and revenue-producing projects are proposed to meet any difference between total expected income and estimated expenses. The patrol leader’s council, review the draft of the proposed budget carefully and examines the feasibility of the contribution and the proposed revenue producing projects.

TROOP DUES
TROOP DUES- an amount collected from members of the troop. To support the proposed budget.
A valuable lesson for the boy and an effective training tool/s to teach responsible citizenship, encourages scouts to earn at least the money for their registration fee to inculcate in them pride in labor. They are trained to contribute regularly to the upkeep of his troop. The troop scribe is responsible to collect weekly or monthly dues at the same time checking of attendance. The patrol leader is responsible to collect through patrol scribe. The contributions are written outside envelope, the money is placed inside it. And turn over to troop scribe/treasurer for the issuance of receipts to the patrol and record the contribution in the “Dues” column of the troop record book. The money received is recorded by the treasurer in the troop financial record book, and he is responsible to deposit money in the troop account as soon as possible. The income from the troop dues may be used for registering the members of the troop. The importance of the troop dues, both as a contribution and as a training device to all leaders in the troop.