The Duchess of Cambridge joined 24 other adult Scouting volunteers from across the UK to take part in an adult volunteer training event.

Among them was Sazeda Patel of Blackburn.

The course took place at Great Tower Scout Activity Centre on the shores of Lake Windermere.

As Scouting has grown in numbers over the last 8 years the need for volunteers has grown.

Sazeda Patel, a volunteer who works with Scouts said: ‘I love working with young people. I get such a buzz out of teaching them the skills we are learning today like climbing, fire lighting and cooking outside.

"It’s great that the Duchess can find time in her busy schedule to help Scouting develop the lives of young people in her local community, I bet she enjoys it as much as I do.’ The Movement currently has thousands of young people that want to join and Scouting’s challenge is to recruit more volunteers to allow this to happen.

As one of the country’s most high profile and busy figures, it is hoped that knowledge of HRH’s involvement will encourage other young adults to get involved in Scouting.

Despite numbers standing at well-over half a million and growing year on year, Scouting is still in need of more adult volunteers, with more than 35,000 young people currently waiting to join.

HRH, who helps out as an Occasional Helper at a Scout Group close to her home in North Wales, will practise lighting different types of fires and cook on them.

The volunteers leart how to help Cub Scouts climb super-high trees and rock faces.

This type of training is offered to all adults volunteering with the UK’s 525,000 Scouts. Other training offered covers topics like first aid, leadership, activity planning and youth programme management.

Each year the UK Scout Association trains more than 20,000 volunteers to provide active, fun , adventurous and safe programmes of developmental activity for young people to help them take a constructive place in their local communities.

Bear Grylls UK Chief Scout said:“‘The Duchess has an incredibly busy life, yet since she joined the Scouts, she has so generously managed to volunteer some incredible time to help out and get involved with her local Group.

"Over the last few years it has been our mission to make it easier for adults to give as much or as little as they are able – it is how we change our society: many people doing a little bit.” He added: There are few greater privileges than being part of empowering young lives through the simple principles of Scouting: fun, friendship, family, skills and adventure.’