Much Loved Group Scout Leader Dies At The Age Of 62

Group Scout Leader Cavan Moore from the 16th Someries Scout Group has died from lung cancer at the age of 62. A long-serving and much loved member of the Scout community in Someries District, Cavan had four passions. One was his family, the second his Scouting, the third his love of steam trains and the last his support for his local church, St Christopher’s in Round Green.

(21st July 2010) [Read More]

Bob’s Big Rugby Push Attracts New Scout Leaders For Bedford

Group Scout Leader Bob Calver took part in a demonstration of rugby football brute strength to help Bedford Scouts attract more leaders. It was a push that tested Bob to the limit.

(20th July 2010) [Read More]

Jamboree Scouts Train To Build 5-star Comfort In Sweden

Bedfordshire’s 36 Jamboree Scouts are training for 10-days of 5-star comfort when they travel to the wilds of Sweden next year. With support from the Duke of Bedford, the contingent has been using the grounds of Woburn Abbey to build all manner of shelters, bridges, Welsh dressers and camp fire tripods using nothing more than wooden poles and rope.

(19th July 2010) [Read More]

Caring Cub Scouts Stage Rerun Of World Cup For Charity

When nine year old Cub Scout Mariska Demmers of Flitwick became ill with leukaemia in February, her many friends in the Flitwick Scout Group rallied round to help.

(13th July 2010) [Read More]

The Sound Of Fun For 6000 Scouts in Deepest Essex

It’s a good job Scout Leaders are slightly deaf for the sound of 6000 excited Beavers and Cubs having fun at Gilwell Park Activity Centre in deepest Essex on their Adventure Day is enough to test even the best eardrum. It’s an action-packed event with over 100 activities to try out

(12th July 2010) [Read More]

Dedicated Scout District Chairman Bows Out After 36 Years

For 36 years ex-schoolteacher Janet Lowe has dedicated her spare time energies to controlling meetings for the Someries District Scouts Executive with professional efficiency.

(2nd July 2010) [Read More]

Nostalgic Trip Down Memory Lane for 200 At Henlow Clifton Scout Group Centenary Camp

Almost 200 past and present members of the Henlow/Clifton Scout Group had a nostalgic trip down memory lane at their centenary celebration camp in late June.

(29th June 2010) [Read More]

Nettle Soup Provides A Survival Challenge For Dunstable Beaver Scouts

Over 150 Dunstable Beaver Scouts took a Bear Grylls survivor challenge at their District camp when they tried stinging nettle soup for the first time.

(21st June 2010) [Read More]

Mary’s Rain Tax Campaign Helps Win Prestigious PR Award For Scout Association

Last year Scout Leader Mary Maybury and Cub Scouts from the St Joseph’s Scout Group in Luton campaigned at Westminster to have a swingeing rainwater tax overturned.

(18th June 2010) [Read More]

Don’t Go Down To The Woods Tonight – There Are Beaver Scouts About

Over 150 Biggleswade Beaver Scouts and their leaders invaded the seven acre camp site at Henlow recently for a twilight Teddy Bear’s picnic and a thrilling search for Dr Who and his henchmen.

(17th June 2010) [Read More]

County President Honoured in Queen’s Birthday List

Bedfordshire Lord Lieutenant and County Scouts President Samuel C Whitbread has been honoured in the 2010 Queen’s Birthday List. He has been made a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order for services to the monarch.

(14th June 2010) [Read More]

VIP Helicopter Prize Trip For Young Cub Scout Designer

A young Shefford Cub Scout, who designed the badge for the BiggJam Biggleswade District summer camp, thought she might get a bar of chocolate as a prize. Instead, the open mouthed youngster stared in astonishment as a helicopter landed at the camp site to whisk her away for a VIP trip of a lifetime. It was a white-knuckle ride she will remember for years to come.

(24th May 2010) [Read More]

Ouse Valley District Scouts Have Adventure Weekend

Newly-appointed Ouse Valley District Commissioner Stephen Owen has just survived his first district camp. Over 200 Scouts, Cubs, Beavers and adults made the trek to the camp site at Jordan’s Field in Great Barford for a weekend of adventure-packed activities. And the adults got as much fun and excitement out of the event as the Scouts.

(22nd May 2010) [Read More]

Bedford Scouts Chalk Up Outstanding National Archery Success

Bedford Scouts from St Andrew’s Scout Group have walked off with a massive haul of 15 trophies in a national Scout archery competition at Phasels Wood Camp Site in Hertfordshire.

(20th May 2010) [Read More]

Scout Leader Dean Warner Takes On The Sunday Challenge

Volunteering for today’s Scouts is a flexible operation with lots of fun thrown in as Scout Leader Dean Warner discovered.

(19th May 2010) [Read More]

Gruelling 20-mile Winter Hike Raises £450 For Keech

Within months of joining their Explorer Unit, four Bedfordshire teenagers completed a gruelling 20-mile hike through the Chiltern Hills in the middle of winter to raise almost £450 for the Luton-based Keech Children’s Hospice. The hike was part of the punishing annual Southern 50 challenge organised by Scout Headquarters and involved the Scouts in plotting a course through unknown terrain to reach their destination.

(16th May 2010) [Read More]

34 Expert Tasters Vote For Best Chip Shop in Biggleswade

All 34 Cub Scouts from the Neptune Scout Cub Pack in Biggleswade have just delivered their verdict on the tastiness of the town’s chip shops. In an exciting survey these budding Jamie Olivers toured the town one evening eating chips as they went and rating each portion for crispness, dryness, taste and value for money.

(10th May 2010) [Read More]

Red Tornado Cubs From Shefford Storm Windsor Castle And Chief Scout Bear Grylls

It was a day to remember for nine Cub Scouts from the 1st Shefford Scout Group when they paid a special visit to the annual St George’s Day parade at Windsor Castle. They lived up to their name the Red Tornados when they not only stormed the castle walls but way laid Chief Scout Bear Grylls during his walk-about after the parade.

(27th April 2010) [Read More]