Serving Stoke Bishop and the surrounding area
Registered Charity Number: 302159
It is with great pleasure I can share that Peter Gilbert had been recognised for his brilliant volunteering efforts by the Chief Scout, Bear Grylls. Peter has been a valuable and much respected member of the group for over 20 years. He has seen many changes but he has never lost sight of the Scouting … Read more
Last November I set myself the challenge of knitting one woolly hat a week for a year to raise money towards building our new 43rd Bristol Scout Group hut. Hat number 50 is in progress but sold already! As you can see each hat is different in design and colour… so hurry now and get … Read more
Last November I set myself the challenge to knit a hat a week for a year to raise money for our new Scout Hut. I am up to Hat No. 47 and nearly ready to start selling them – just in time for the cold spell coming around the corner. All different designs, colours and … Read more
The Scouts had a cracking hike from Ashton Court to the 43rd Hut in beautiful autumn weather. It was great to meet face to face for the first time since March.
Our Group Annual General Meeting was held on Tuesday 16 June 2020 via Zoom with 21 attendees. Our Chair, Charles Elderton, gave an upbeat report on a very successful year for the Group including raising funds of over £50,000. In addition, our plans for a Scout Community Centre has progressed significantly with final reports … Read more
Another successful evening as the cubs do their first part of their communicator badge, involving decoding secret messages, semaphores, morse code, text messages and emails.
We had 19 cubs join us for our first virtual camp where the cubs would either camp in their gardens, or sleep in a den made inside the house. Throughout the weekend we had several online video calls to coordinate activities, as well as a private social media group that was constantly pinging with updates … Read more
We are pleased to announce that we were part of Waitrose Community Matters at the Westbury Park store in April, and have been awarded £333 towards our new hut fund. Thanks Waitrose! https://www.waitrose.com/content/waitrose/en/home/inspiration/community_matters.html
For the first time in its history the 43rd Bristol Scout Group’s Executive Committee has recently met ‘virtually’ using the Zoom platform. Issues were debated, decisions were made and ideas were discussed about holding a virtual AGM, camp and other future social events. With lockdown ongoing and the likelihood of social distancing continuing for some … Read more
The Scouts had their first virtual meeting on Zoom. It was great to catch up and have a bit of a laugh; we had a good turn out and the technology behaved so the plan is to run them every two weeks.