Serving Stoke Bishop and the surrounding area
Registered Charity Number: 302159
At the 43rd Bristol Scouts AGM this week, District Commisioner Chris Gavriel awarded our outgoing Scout Leader with the Chief Scout’s Commendation for Good Service. Congratulations Steve – a well deserved award that reflects all of the work and effort you have put into the group over the past 8 years!
The Scouts have had a brilliant time caving and sailing over the last few weeks made possible by Carey Shaw our wonderful caving instructor and Fenella, Paul, Alan and the team at the ASCSS, big thanks to all.
The Scouts spent a day hiking around the Four Falls near Ystradfellte in the Brecon Beacons. There were some tired legs at the end but it was a brilliant day.
The Cubs, Scouts and a couple of Beavers had a wonderful day out at Longleat organised by our wonderful District. The weather was perfect, lots of giant gobstoppers were eaten and by the end everyone was buzzing. Big thanks to the District team for organising and farewell to Chris, our wonderful and inspirational DC, who … Read more
43rd Bristol Scouts spent the night learning morse code with torches and experimenting with light painting! Great fun!
The Scouts have been scuba diving for the last three weeks at Thornbury Leisure Centre with the Hidden Depths Scuba School who always give them an amazing experience.
The Scouts have been keeping very busy this term ! They did pioneering using broom handles, went on a hike from Blaise to the Hut on a perfect pitch black night; we invested our 11 new joiners and ASL Darren received his Wood Badge. As part of their Green Influencer Scheme they did an introduction … Read more
It was great to get Baden Powell Troop together again after so long. The Scouts cycled to Ashton Court in perfect sunshine then did a blue trial; quite a challenge for the younger ones but they all put maximum effort into it. No doubt there were some sore legs the day after (mainly the leaders … 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.
In preparation for our tree sale, the Scouts bravely slept in the hut the night before. Much pizza was eaten, they watched a film and some even got some sleep ! The following day the Scouts were brilliant and worked really hard helping customers choose trees, wrapping trees (and themselves), delivering trees and selling raffle … Read more