All events will conform to AVA guidelines for safety, accessibility, and availablilty to all. Volkssporters are all winners, therefore, many clubs produce a patch or other award which is available to all participants. Some Girl Scout Councils choose to prepare their own award. A Girl Scout Council may choose to use the AVA patch as its own award if it wishes. The award for this event was a patch with an outline of the five counties of Northern New Jersey which make up the council.
Participation is free to everyone.
However, each club is a volunteer organization that must pay a fee for hosting an official event. Many volkssporters collect these stamps in logbooks and redeem them for internationally-recognized pins, patches, and certificates recognizing individual achievements in our sport. The achievements are milestone-levels of the number of events that someone participates, and the total distance covered over a lifetime of participation. This is an activity that scouts must do with an adult leader or adult family member.