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Beaver Scouts are young people usually aged between six and eight years
old. They belong to the first and youngest Section in the Scouting family.
 Easily recognised by their distinctive turquoise sweatshirts, Beaver
Scouts enjoy making friends, playing games, going on visits and helping
others. They normally meet together once a week in a Colony.
Many
Beaver Scout Colonies also organise Sleepovers. These are often the first
time a young person spends a night away from home, but the overall programme
a Beaver Colony completes is carefully geared to the age range of the Beaver
Scouts.
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Downloadable Beaver Brochure |
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Beaver Colony |
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Following a couple of taster sessions for the children of Arborfield, a new
Beaver Colony is to open there towards the end of April. Leaders are in
place and start their training shortly. More information will be posted as
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| Wokingham
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| Scouting has been around the Wokingham area for 100 years this year, so
there's a programme of events
being put together. One of these will be a trip to the Beaver/Cub Fun Day at
Gilwell Park which should be great fun. Click
here to
find out more and to get a copy of the application form which you can print
and pass to your leader. |
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| New
District Beaver Scout Leader |
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| Fiona Barnes, who has been working with the District Team for some while has
been appointed District Beaver Scout Leader. Welcome Fiona! |
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| Some
photos from Beaver Colonies across the District |
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| Just click here to
see some photos of Beaver Scout activities from Colonies across the
District. |
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| Beavers from across Wokingham District celebrated "Community Day" by
collecting together dried and tinned food for the charity Feed the Children
who ask for "things" rather than money. On 11th November the Swifts Beavers
at 1st Woosehill presented their mountain of tins and pasta to a
representative of the charity who told them that it would be going to
Bangladesh to help provide school meals and that for some children, this
would be the only meal of the day!
Here's a photo of Swifts and that mountain of food, but does anyone else
have a photo or two of their part in the collection? "Being Remembrance
Day, it gave us a chance to link the effects that conflict can have on other
children around the world". |
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Parents!
Looking for Beaver Colony for your child? Sadly most Beaver Colonies
have waiting lists, a situation common throughout the UK. So look for a
Colony close to home by visiting the
Scout Groups page. Then you can click a link that will take you to that
Group's page which will give you an e-mail address so you can ask for your
son or daughter to have their name added to the waiting list. Very often
preference will be given to the children of those parents who are making a
regular contribution to the Group, for example as a leader. After all, no
leaders means no Beavers! For those who cannot undertake a regular
commitment as a leader, there are other roles involved in the the running of
a Scout Group which are mentioned on the
How to Help page. |
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