Scouts (10.5-14)

Boys and girls can join Scouts when they are ten-and-a-half years old. Many will have made their way through Beavers and Cubs, but this is not a requirement for joining the scout troop. When they are 14 years old, they will move up to Explorer Scouts.

Our Scouts troop meets on Monday evenings during term time, from 7.30pm to 9.00pm, at the church hall at All Saints Weston Green.

A typical term’s activities might include a day hike or a night hike, usually something involving fire, indoor and outdoor games, learning some practical outdoor skills like navigation and survival cooking, or some indoor skills like electronics, and a fun trip to an indoor climbing wall or a crazy golf course. The troop competes with other local scout groups in competitions ranging from cooking and hiking to archery and shooting. Scouts get the opportunity to participate in camps, held at weekends or during school holidays.  At this level, camping is under canvas (first erect your tent!), and might include winter “frost” camps and multi-day expedition camps.  Camps are always packed with activities, including things like archery, rifle shooting, watersports and climbing, as well as the traditional activities like evenings around the camp fire, and helping with cooking and washing up!  The scout troop is divided into several patrols who work as a team during many activities, and scouts can develop their leadership skills as patrol leader or assistant patrol leader.

Our lead volunteer in Scouts is Nick Fisk, who runs the group with Rob Williams and Malcolm Wood.

We usually have space for boys or girls of the right age to join the group as Scouts.  If you’d like to get your name (or your child’s name) onto our waiting list, you can click here.  If you’re an adult who can help the group by volunteering to join Nick’s Scouts team or by taking on an administrative role, let us know.  See our join page for further details.

See our Subscriptions and Fees page to find out how much it will cost to join scouts.