The Scouts have a cracking hike !
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.
43rd Cubs are back…
It was great to be able to finally meet face to face again, even with just half of the pack, after a long 6 months of virtual meetings! Although COVID regulations limited what could be done, the cubs still had a great socially distant evening earning a good part of their Navigation staged badges on … Read more
Guess Who received their Chief Scout Silver Awards
The cubs enjoyed the final zoom session of the term this week with a game of live action Guess Who, some playing card bingo and then wrapping up the night with awarding 3 cubs their Chief Scout Silver award and wishing them well as they leave cubs and continue their journey on to scouts. Well … Read more
43rd Bristol Scout’s AGM goes virtual!
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
Cubs Work on their Communicator Badge
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.
43rd Cubs Virtual Badges
27 badges ready to deliver along with 2 investiture certificates. We may have gone virtual, but the cubs have been working really hard earning badges during lockdown with many more to come… Well done 43rd Cub Pack!
Virtual Cub Camp a Great Success
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
Cub Mug Cake Bake
The cubs were all on form this week when they joined our regular zoom cub night for a cake bake led by one of the parents. It was great fun and the one I tried tasted yummy – definitely not something we would have tried with a traditional cub night, although I hope the cubs … Read more
Thanks to Waitrose Community Matters!
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
43rd Bristol Scout Group on Zoom
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