Zoom Badge Ceremony

This week, our Beavers, Cubs and Scouts took part in a virtual badge ceremony. As a Group, we have awarded 550 badges that our young people have earned over the lockdown period. Some of these were achieved through County and local ‘Scouting at Home’ initiatives, others were earned by attending our weekly Zoom sessions. We’re

Stop Motion Promotion Video

During lockdown, one of our amazing Scouts, William Chaney, has been working on a stop motion video to promote scouting. This project is part of William’s endeavour to achieve his Chief Scout Gold Award, which is the top award available in Scouts. We’re delighted to share the finished product with you – well done William

Virtual Meetings on Zoom

Face-to-face meetings might have stopped but Scouting definitely hasn’t! This week we ventured into unknown territory (for now), as our Beavers, Cubs and Scouts held their meetings virtually on Zoom. Having not met for the last 5 weeks due to the Coronavirus, our Young People absolutely loved seeing their friends virtually.  This week we did

The first of many sleepovers!

For the first time in 5 years, Beavers from across South West Nottingham journeyed to Conkers Activity Centre for an exciting weekend full of activities and sleep-over (whether much sleeping happened is another question). There was over 200 beavers in one place which is an amazing feat in itself and from the stories they’ve shared,

‘Survival can be summed up in three words – never give up.’
Bear Grylls, Chief Scout