Scouting is a success story

In the UK today there are over 400,000 young people in scouting, which makes us the country's largest co-educational movement. Worldwide there are nearly 30 million Scouts in 216 countries.

We are a small friendly group based in a little village in Cambridgeshire, and are part of the Granta scout district.  We have recently joined forces with the 1st Barrington scout group and have undergone a transition period amalgamating both groups, which has seen us increase or numbers considerably.

We have a Beaver colony, Cub pack, and Scout troop, all meeting on the same night, so we get to know all the leaders, and group members before we move up to the next group.

We have lots of different activities that everybody can join in with.  For information about up and coming events, please see our activities page.

	Scouts prepare to celebrate 100th birthday
	SCOUTS from around the county are planning several events that will include centenary camps, galas, parades, fun days, sleepovers and reunions. And they will be participating in major events in the UK to celebrate the contribution of scouting since 1907. Thursday, February 22, marks Founder's Day and is the 150th anniversary of the birth of Lord Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the world Scout movement. A special service will be held at Great St Mary's Church, Cambridge, after a candlelit procession. There will also be a service at Ely Cathedral on Sunday, February 25. During the last weekend in May, Cambridgeshire's Scouts will enjoy fun and adventure when they join with 500,000 others for the National Camping Weekend. Cherry Hinton Hall will host 1,000 youngsters and adults in the biggest scouting event in the city for 50 years and there will be similar events in St Ives, Ely and Newmarket. And the county will be represented by 36 scouts and guides at the 21st World Scout Jamboree - 44,000 scouts from around the world will gather at Hylands Park, Chelmsford, at the 12-day event starting on July 27. In Cambridge from July 25 to August 7, Reunion 57 will bring together participants who attended the 1957 Jamboree in Birmingham. August 1 sees the Scouting's Sunrise celebration to mark the exact date Baden-Powell blew his kidu horn to open the first camp on Brownsea Island, in Poole Harbour, Dorset. As 8am arrives in each time zone worldwide, Scouts will welcome the dawn of a new century of scouting. There are 5,000 youngsters and 1,000 adults involved in scouting in Cambridgeshire with 110 groups covering Beavers, Cubs, Scouts and Explorers. Chris Ward, deputy county commissioner, joined the 12th Cambridge Cubs, based in Gilbert Road, Cambridge, when he was aged eight in 1968. Now in his 40th year with the scouts, the 48-year-old from Fenstanton, a management consultant with IBM when not scouting, said: "It's a great way to make new friends and it cuts across the age ranges. "There are opportunities for adults who want to volunteer. It's very rewarding and there's a huge payback from the youngsters you work with." Chris Gawthrop-Bleet, 22, is Beaver Scout Leader with the 14th Cambridge Scout Group that meets at St Luke's Church, on Victoria Road. He works with about 20 youngsters and has been a leader since he was 15. He says scouting offers opportunities to go on trips and do things that are not possible through schools. His advice to any youngster considering joining - and girls are officially part of scouting since it became fully coeducational on January 1 - is: "Join in the fun and give the adventure a try." ¦ For more information, see cambridgeshirescouts.org.uk Youngsters join in Tree for All SCOUTS teamed up with the Woodland Trust to plant 2,000 trees this weekend in Cambridgeshire. The youngsters planted native broadleaved trees at Turners Wood, Great Eversden on Saturday. The hilltop site gives spectacular views of Wimpole Hall. As part of the Scouts centenary celebrations this year, they and the Woodland Trust have formed a partnership to give youngsters a chance to learn about, and engage in, woodland conservation. Scouts from Cambridge, Orwell, Histon, Fenstanton and Whittlesford took part in the planting which is part of the trust's Tree For All campaign - it aims to involve a million children in planting 12 million trees. Andy Beer, of the Woodland Trust, said: "Tree For All is a call to action in a time when the protection and planting of new woodland is becoming increasingly important as our natural world comes under siege. "We see joining forces with the Scout Association as a great opportunity to get involved with a UK wide organisation to help us reach out to more and more young people. "We aim to plant at least 100 Centenary Groves - these will be new areas of native woodland, each made up of thousands of trees." More ...