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1st Cippenham celebrates their 90th Anniversary by holding a family camp on 15-16 June at Dorney woods!

The 90th camp marked a resounding success as attendees enjoyed the celebrations with an unpredictable weather forecast. A total of 108 participants engaged in a variety of afternoon activities, including building the tallest flagpole and an innovative duck rescue […]

South East Berkshire took over 280 Squirrels, Beavers, Cubs, Young Leaders, Leaders and parents on five coaches to Gilwell Fun Day on 9th June. They enjoyed activities where they climbed, rode, made, jumped, bounced, shot, ran, slid, balanced, created, ate and finally fell asleep on the way home in the coach. Plus to add to

Explorers from 1st Purley & Pangbourne took to the airwaves over the weekend of 10-12 May, as part of a unique fundraiser for Project Africa that saw them broadcasting for 36 hours straight. Thre3-6ix Radio originally aired in 2019, winning a Community Radio Award that year, and was resurrected five years later to support the

“We gladly receive the light as a sign of our willingness to be channels of peace, by our words and actions” The International Peace Light is passed throughout the world by Scouts having been  lit from the Grotto of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem. For over 25 years the light was distributed throughout

Announcing Twyford Scout Archery Club (Archery GB Affiliated)   Following on from the hard work over previous years to establish Twyford Scout Group as another legitimate home for scouting archery (outside of Hampshire and Cambridge), I’m pleased to announce that our club, which is imaginatively called the “Twyford Scout Archery Club” (!) is now affiliated

When 1st Reading Sea Scouts volunteer Caroline’s father moved into Winchcombe Place care home in Newbury earlier this year, she vowed to rekindle his memories of Scouting through her own colony of Beavers. ‘Grandpa Beaver’, as he is warmly known, lives with dementia but a visit from the Beavers helped to jog happy recollections. What

The countdown is on! Next summer, 57 young people and 34 adult leaders will embark on an epic adventure to Malawi, as part of Berkshire Scouts’ transformational Project Africa initiative. Following successful trips to Uganda in 2011, 2015 and 2019, the change of destination to Malawi was announced following a pain-staking process of due diligence

Earlier in the year, Taceham Hundred Explorers teamed up with Peak District Explorers to organise a joint trip to Kandersteg International Scout Centre (KISC) in Switzerland. The build-up to the trip kicked off in April with a weekend in the Peak District where the Explorers from Taceham Hundred and Peak District got to know each

These days it can feel like half of the people you know are running a half marathon or hiking a mountain in support of a charity. But Emmer Green-based 89th Reading Scouts recently got up to something a little different to raise money for a good cause. 19 Scouts chose to sleep under the stars