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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

The countdown is on! Next summer, 57 young people and 34 adult leaders will embark on an epic adventure to Malawi, as part of Berkshire Scouts’ transformational Project Africa initiative. Following successful trips to Uganda in 2011, 2015 and 2019, the change of destination to Malawi was announced following a pain-staking process of due diligence

Earlier in the year, Taceham Hundred Explorers teamed up with Peak District Explorers to organise a joint trip to Kandersteg International Scout Centre (KISC) in Switzerland. The build-up to the trip kicked off in April with a weekend in the Peak District where the Explorers from Taceham Hundred and Peak District got to know each

These days it can feel like half of the people you know are running a half marathon or hiking a mountain in support of a charity. But Emmer Green-based 89th Reading Scouts recently got up to something a little different to raise money for a good cause. 19 Scouts chose to sleep under the stars

Students embarking on further education at universities across the UK this month are finding new opportunities to continue, or even begin, their Scouting adventures while studying. Berkshire Scouts’ Volunteer Development Officers have been at Reading University Freshers’ Week to offer students advice and guidance on how to further their Scouting locally, finding new groups where

When we volunteer at Scouts, we do so in the hope that we might exert a measure of positive influence on the young people. From the youngest Squirrels all the way up to our oldest Explorers, every activity, each routine meeting in a barn, or hut, or village hall, has the potential to spark a

Since their official roll out in late 2021, Squirrels have grown exponentially across both Berkshire and the UK with new Dreys springing up almost weekly. Consequently, increasing numbers of young people and their Scouting communities are starting to see the benefits of our newest section as the stand-out red uniforms begin to be seen alongside

There were some familiar faces on hand to give a ‘Big Help Out’ to Scouts in Slough on bank holiday Monday, the culmination of a special Coronation weekend in which our county featured prominently in the celebrations. Fresh from Saturday’s historic Coronation of King Charles III and Queen Camilla, and Sunday night’s musical extravaganza outside