You may remember that during last year’s May bank holiday, members of the 1st Bradley Stoke Scouts attended the district jamboree. This year they were at the Avon county jamboree with 4,200 young people from Beavers, Cubs, Scouts, Explorers, the Guiding community and all their supporting adult volunteers. Together they took part in activities across four themes – skill, adventure,
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Ellie Holley has become the first girl at 1st Bradley Stoke Scouts to attain her Chief Scout’s Gold Award. Made up of nine challenge badges – Adventure, Community, Creative, Expedition, Fitness, Global, Outdoor, Outdoor Plus and Promise – it is the highest award available to the Scout section. She has hiked, camped, cooked on an open campfire, taught more junior
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By Tomi Hernija & Mike Carr, 1st Bradley Stoke Scout Group The Water Rats (a.k.a 1st Bradley Stoke Scout Group’s water activity unit) are ready and kitted out for another exciting year of water activities. After a very positive start last year, we plan to get over 250 Beavers, Cubs, Scouts and Explorers “on the water” to experience traditional raft
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By Katherine Robinson of the 1st Bradley Stoke Scout Group. As regular readers will know, the 1st Bradley Stoke Scout Group was able to start its own marching band earlier this year, thanks to winning a Vodafone Community Connection Award that was promoted through The Journal. We are now very excited to be in a position to offer spaces to
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By Katherine Robinson of the 1st Bradley Stoke Scout Group. This year, Beaver Scouts are celebrating their 30th birthday. The 1st Bradley Stoke Beavers marked this occasion in style with a camp aiming to complete 30 activities in 30 hours! The marathon sleepover was held at Brook Way Activity Centre with 42 young people taking part. As well as the
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By Nick Nelson of the 1st Bradley Stoke Scout Group. We are very pleased to announce that our plans for starting our own Scout marching band have now come to fruition and band practice began in the first week of January. Eleven keen young players are now learning to play instruments under the expert guidance of band leader Richard Shepherd
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Vodafone and the Bradley Stoke Journal are pleased to announce that the 1st Bradley Stoke Scout Group’s ‘marching band project’ has been selected to receive a £1,000 Vodafone Community Connection Award, following the call for nominations in our September magazine. Winning the award means the Scout group will be able to begin practice sessions for its own marching band from
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A Scout leader from Bradley Stoke has travelled to Japan to take part in the 23rd World Scout Jamboree, which is being attended by 30,000 youngsters from around the globe. As part of the International Service Team (IST), which is the driving force behind the event, David Owen will spend the next two weeks helping young people from many different countries, cultures and backgrounds. The IST
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Over the spring bank holiday weekend, around a hundred members of the 1st Bradley Stoke Scout Group attended the Brunel District Jamboree at Woodhouse Park Activity Centre near Almondsbury. This three day camp involved groups from across the district, so it was a real opportunity to get to know the wider Scouting family for both the young people and their
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The 1st Bradley Stoke Beaver Scouts have been busy fundraising for Guide Dogs, one of the Scout Association’s partnered charities. As part of their St George’s day commemorations, the Beavers were set a series of sponsored ‘Knight’s Challenges’ to complete at home. These were designed to demonstrate their core promise of “doing their best” and being “kind and helpful”, and
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