Beavers Go Off The Rails…

The Beavers had an exciting train trip this week from Sea Mills train station to Severn Beach station and back. They kept their eyes open on the trip looking for answers to their quiz which included counting the windmills on route – with answers ranging from between 5 and 50! Thanks to Swift for the … Read more

The Beavers Camp is a Great Success

The 43rd St Mary’s Beaver group went away for their very first beaver camp last weekend. The weather was hot and sunny and the Beavers spent an energetic few days on hikes, playing various games / activities, a bbq and an evening camp fire with songs and roasted marsh mallows. Yum! All the beavers had … Read more

Cubs Had A Fantastic Time At Their Annual Cub Camp

21 cubs has a fantastic time at their Annual Cub Camp in May. After a long hike on the Friday night, cubs busied themselves with climbing, orienteering, pioneering, aerial trekking and shelter building amongst other activities over the weekend.   On the Saturday afternoon our beavers joined us for some ‘Highland Games’, involving haggis- hurling, … Read more

Cubs Tea Party Breaks All Records

On Saturday 6 May, the 43rd Bristol Scout Group held a Cub Tea Party at their site off Kewstoke Road. The event was very well supported with plenty of stalls to play games and buy plants, books, sweets and much more.    Our Cubs and Scouts did us proud helping to design and make the … Read more

Hike to Blaise Castle

The Beavers took advantage of the light nights this week by taking part in a hike to Blaise Castle. The evening was finished off with biscuits and a well deserved play on the playground.  

Beavers Fire Station Trip

Both Beaver colonies enjoyed separate visits to Southmead Fire Station this week to learn about fire safety and to enjoy a tour of the Fire Station. They learnt that firefighters rarely rescue cats from trees, they occasionally have to rescue horses from holes and the Southmead crew have over 1 mile of hose to help put … Read more

Beavers Try Archery

The Beavers had an exciting evening learning about archery and then took turns firing arrows at the targets, all supervised in a safe environment by the beaver leaders. No bulls eyes sadly but plenty of hits on target and loads of fun had by all…    

Beavers Go Tobogganing…

The 43rd Beaver Colonies hit the slopes at Mendip Activity Centre for a great afternoon of tobogganing. Even Horace ‘the sledge’ Beaver joined in and enjoyed the social event and chips! Many thanks to Hawk (Tim) for organising a great event.

New Beavers Invested to 43rd Bristol

The latest 6 new beavers were invested on Tuesday night, into our 2nd Beaver colony, Ravens. The investiture was performed by our Andy, our Group Scout Leader and Robin, the Ravens Beaver leader. The new Beavers all proudly repeated their promise in front of their fellow Beavers and parents. Congratulations and welcome to the Colony… … Read more