Scout woggles customised for your group. Embroidered, woven, leather and PVC woggles can all carry your scout group’s name and colours, from 88p each on our largest quantity tier.
Priced for groups kitting out a whole section. A buying guide and woggle FAQs sit below the products.
A woggle — the ring that holds a neckerchief in place, also called a neckerchief slide — is the smallest part of the uniform and the one most likely to go missing. Choosing the right type is mostly a question of how long it needs to last and whether you want your scout group’s identity on it.
| Type | From | Best for | Worth knowing |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leather woggles | £2.07 | Everyday wear, all sections | The traditional choice. Softens with use and lasts years. Debossed or printed with your design. |
| Plaited leather woggle | £1.25 | Groups wanting the classic look on a budget | The original 1920s design — three strands of leather plaited into a ring. |
| PVC woggles | £1.05 | Younger sections, camps, wet weather | Waterproof and wipe-clean. Printed with your design. Survives being dropped in a river. |
| Custom embroidered woggles | £0.88 | Group identity, anniversaries, gifts | Your group name stitched in. Raised, textured finish. |
| Custom woven woggles | £0.88 | Detailed logos and fine lettering | Flatter than embroidery and holds much finer detail — better for small text. |
| Classic leaders woggle | £6.00 | Leaders and volunteers | Inspired by the Gilwell woggle and the Turk’s head knot. Off the shelf, so there’s no artwork stage. |
The prices above are our best per-woggle rate — the largest quantity tier. Smaller orders cost more per woggle, and the price steps down as the quantity goes up; each product page shows the tiers in full.
If you’re ordering for a whole section and expect to lose a few, PVC is the sensible choice. If you want something that still looks right in five years’ time, buy leather.
A plain woggle does the job. A woggle with your group’s name on it does something else — it tells everyone at a district camp or county event exactly who your young people are, and it gives them something that belongs to their group rather than to Scouting in general.
Four of the woggles on this page can be made to your own design:
Send your group name, number and colours and you’ll get a free digital mockup back before anything is made — request a quote and mockup here.
The classic leaders woggle is the exception: it’s an off-the-shelf product, so there’s no artwork or approval stage — just order it.
Custom woggles are also worth considering for a group anniversary, a district or county event, a summer camp, or as a leaving gift when young people move up a section.
In UK Scouting, most groups issue a woggle that matches the section a young person is in, so the six sections are easy to tell apart at a glance:
There’s no single national rule forcing a particular woggle colour on a particular section — plenty of groups use one colour throughout and let the neckerchief do the identifying instead. If your group does use section colours, the PVC and custom ranges above can both be ordered in matched colours across all six sections, and leaders can be set apart with the classic leaders woggle.
Woggles are generally one size. The ring is sized to take a standard rolled scout neckerchief with enough grip that it stays put but still slides freely when the necker is being adjusted.
The thing that actually affects fit is the neckerchief, not the woggle. Fabric weight is what fills the ring: our 100% cotton neckerchiefs are a heavier cloth than the polycotton blends cheaper competitors tend to use, so they sit more snugly in a woggle. Every woggle on this page is sized to fit them.
Scout group budgets are tight, so pricing here is built around quantity rather than single units. The more you order, the lower the per-woggle price — which is why a full section’s worth of custom woggles can come in under £1 each. The prices shown on this page are that largest-tier rate, so expect to pay more per woggle on a small order.
Scoutwise supplies scout groups, districts and counties across the UK and Europe. Lead times:
If you’re working to a fixed date — a county camp, a group anniversary, the start of term — tell us when you enquire and we’ll confirm what’s achievable before you commit.
Ordering for a whole group, district or county event? Get a bulk quote and we’ll price it properly rather than sending you through the standard checkout.
A woggle holds the neckerchief neatly in place just below the neck. Before woggles existed, scouts knotted their neckers, which came loose, wore the fabric out and looked untidy. The woggle solved all three problems at once and has been part of the uniform ever since.
Nobody is entirely certain. The name was coined by Bill Shankley, a Scouter at Gilwell Park, who reportedly described it as “a name given to something without a name.” The earliest known printed reference appears in The Scout magazine in June 1923. It may also be an echo of the older English words “waggle” and “wobble.”
Yes. The woggle is still standard across UK Scouting for every section, from Squirrels through to adult leaders and volunteers.
For most members it simply signals which group or section they belong to. One woggle carries a specific meaning: the Gilwell woggle — a leather Turk’s head knot, also designed by Bill Shankley — is traditionally presented to adult leaders on completing their Wood Badge training, and is recognised as a mark of that achievement worldwide. Our classic leaders woggle is inspired by the Gilwell woggle.
The two usual methods are a Turk’s head knot tied in leather bootlace or a plaited paracord woggle — both make good section activities and there are plenty of free tutorials online. Handmade woggles are excellent for a badge activity or a wet evening; they’re less practical when you need forty identical ones by next Thursday, which is what the woggles above are for.
Woggles on this page start at 88p for custom embroidered and woven, £1.05 for PVC and £2.07 for leather. Those are the rates on our largest quantity tier — a smaller order costs more per woggle — so the way to get the cheapest scout woggles is to order for the whole section, or the whole group, at once. At those quantities we undercut most UK scout retailers, and unlike a marketplace listing you get UK manufacturing and a real person to talk to about your group’s artwork.
They’re the same thing. “Woggle” is the standard term in UK Scouting; “neckerchief slide” is more common in the United States. Some people also search for a “scout toggle,” which means the same again.
