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It all started with a simple yet ambitious goal: to pick up one metric tonne of rubbish. Harry, a Scout from Arborfield, was inspired by a COP26 assembly and a YouTuber he admired, and thus, the journey towards environmental change began. “At school, we had an assembly on COP26, and it really showed me the […]

Kaizen Explorers Maidenhead enjoyed their first solo camp in Snowdonia in August, and a real highlight and accomplishment for everyone concerned was climbing and reaching the summit of Snowdon.

The wait is over. Fundraising efforts are complete. Bags are (hopefully) packed. Malawi is calling for around 60 Explorers from across Berkshire, who embark on Berkshire Scouts’ fourth Project Africa expedition this weekend. We’ve enjoyed all the updates from our county team from the past months, as they have worked tirelessly to prepare for this

1st Cippenham celebrates their 90th Anniversary by holding a family camp on 15-16 June at Dorney woods!

The 90th camp marked a resounding success as attendees enjoyed the celebrations with an unpredictable weather forecast. A total of 108 participants engaged in a variety of afternoon activities, including building the tallest flagpole and an innovative duck rescue

South East Berkshire took over 280 Squirrels, Beavers, Cubs, Young Leaders, Leaders and parents on five coaches to Gilwell Fun Day on 9th June. They enjoyed activities where they climbed, rode, made, jumped, bounced, shot, ran, slid, balanced, created, ate and finally fell asleep on the way home in the coach. Plus to add to

Explorers from 1st Purley & Pangbourne took to the airwaves over the weekend of 10-12 May, as part of a unique fundraiser for Project Africa that saw them broadcasting for 36 hours straight. Thre3-6ix Radio originally aired in 2019, winning a Community Radio Award that year, and was resurrected five years later to support the

Announcing Twyford Scout Archery Club (Archery GB Affiliated)   Following on from the hard work over previous years to establish Twyford Scout Group as another legitimate home for scouting archery (outside of Hampshire and Cambridge), I’m pleased to announce that our club, which is imaginatively called the “Twyford Scout Archery Club” (!) is now affiliated

“We gladly receive the light as a sign of our willingness to be channels of peace, by our words and actions” The International Peace Light is passed throughout the world by Scouts having been  lit from the Grotto of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem. For over 25 years the light was distributed throughout

When 1st Reading Sea Scouts volunteer Caroline’s father moved into Winchcombe Place care home in Newbury earlier this year, she vowed to rekindle his memories of Scouting through her own colony of Beavers. ‘Grandpa Beaver’, as he is warmly known, lives with dementia but a visit from the Beavers helped to jog happy recollections. What