Scout Community Centre Appeal

Fund Raising News

Building Community for over 100 Years

We recently had an article published in the St Mary's Messenger, Spring 2024 edition, which shares some history of the ...

John James Foundation award £20k towards our new Scout Community Centre

We are pleased and honoured to be able to thank the John James Foundation for awarding us a £20,000 grant ...

Motus Legal Recruitment donates £7000 towards a new Scout Community Centre

We are delighted to share the wonderful news that the 43rd Bristol Scout Group has been made a £7000 donation ...

43rd Bristol Scout Group awarded £1000 by WHSmith Trust 

We were thrilled to hear that we have been made a £1000 grant by WHSmith Trust towards our fundraising to ...

We Love Stoke Lodge supports local Scout Group 

The 43rd Bristol Scout Group were thrilled to receive over £200 from We Love Stoke Lodge (WLSL) following their recent ...

Local community comes together for annual Scout Christmas Tree Sale

The 43rd Bristol Scout Group held another very successful Christmas Tree sale on Saturday 9 December. Despite heavy rain, our ...

Fundraising Update

We have had another busy and successful year fundraising towards our new Scout Hut Project, but we still need more ...

Community spirit shines bright on Stoke Lodge

Over 100 local residents came together on Saturday afternoon to celebrate the registering of Stoke Lodge Parkland as a Village ...

43rd Bristol Scout Group launches Charity Fundraising Video

We are thrilled to announce the launch of a short video to help build awareness of our desperate need to ...

43rd Plant Sale a success – a big thank you.

The 43rd plant sale was a roaring success. Big thanks to all our loyal supporters and a special thanks to ...

Tesco tokens -we need your help

A reminder to add your Tesco tokens for our project to build a new fit for purpose Scout community centre ...

Reminder to add your Tesco tokens!

We are now live in store for the Tesco token scheme, please do vote for us. You can find us ...

We need your support – please vote for us in store from mid January!

43rd Bristol Scout Group are bidding for a cash boost from the Tesco Community Grants initiative. Tesco works with community ...

Fantastic Local Community Support for 43rd Bristol Scout Group

Freezing temperatures didn’t stop the local residents of Stoke Bishop and Sneyd Park coming out in full force on Saturday ...

Christmas Choir Concert supports 43rd Bristol Scout Group

We are very grateful to Stoke Bishop Ladies Choir who very kindly chose to donate all funds raised at their ...

Volunteers at 43rd Bristol Scout Group receive Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service as part of Avon County Scouts

Earlier this summer Avon County Scouts volunteers were honoured with the Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service 2022, the highest award ...

Annual Christmas Tree Sale on 10th December 2022

Come and join us for our annual Christmas Tree Sale on Saturday 10th December 2022 from 8am to 11am. Come ...

Local Community Jubilee Street Party raises funds for 43rd Bristol Scout Group

Jubilee celebrations local to our Scout Hut got off to a fine start on Sunday 5th June, with the local ...

43rd Bristol Scouts Plant Sale reaches new heights

It was wonderful to see so many volunteers, parents and community residents come along to our plant sale on Saturday ...

Annual Christmas Tree sale exceeds expectations for 43rd Bristol Scouts

Realising it was probably not going to be possible to hold a traditional Christmas Tree sale in 2020, the 43rd ...

50 Hats for the Hut – Now on Sale!

Last November I set myself the challenge of knitting one woolly hat a week for a year to raise money ...

50 Hats for the Hut!

Last November I set myself the challenge to knit a hat a week for a year to raise money for ...

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 ...

Our Scout Group Awarded Funding of £30,000

The 43rd Bristol Scout Group, based in Stoke Bishop, is delighted to announce it has been awarded £30,000 of funding ...

Jigsaw swap/buy/donate

We are introducing a Jigsaw swap/buy/donate at our Cubaccino Cafe. Join us at the Scout hut on Saturday March 7th ...

Scouts’ Tree Sale Sleepover

In preparation for our tree sale, the Scouts bravely slept in the hut the night before. Much pizza was eaten, ...

Full House at Scout Quiz & Curry Night

A packed Stoke Bishop Village Hall on Saturday 23 November 2019 was the venue for the 43rd Bristol Scout Group’s ...

Huge Thanks to the Stoke Bishop Co-op

A very big thank you for the £2632.85 cheque which we collected this morning from Stoke Bishop Co-op as part ...

Beavers book event

Our Beaver colonies are looking forward to a book event at the beginning of December. Local author Rachel McCoubrie is ...

Scout Plant Sale & Tea Party – a glorious success

The 43rd Bristol Scout Group held a truly fantastic and memorable community plant sale and tea party on Saturday 4 ...

Tomorrow at 1pm – please join us!

Below is a small selection of the lovely plants we will have on offer: a good selection of bedding and ...

Scouts Prepare for our 4th May Plant Sale & Tea Party

The Scouts worked really hard clearing and tidying the around the hut in preparation for our grand plant sale and ...

The Scouts do an epic 5k Muddy Madness !

43rd Scouts, leaders and parents did an epic 5k Muddy Madness run at Mojo Active in Almondsbury. All the Scouts ...

Replacement Hut Update

As 2018 comes to an end we can look back on an extremely busy and successful year for the Group ...

Stoke Bishop Artist Supports Scout Group’s Fundraising

The 43rd Bristol Scout Group was delighted to receive £50 from local artist, Professor Richard Elderton. Instead of buying his ...

Local Residents support Scout Christmas Tree Sale

The 43rd Bristol Scout Group’s annual Christmas Tree Sale was held on Saturday 1 December. Gates opened at 8am and ...

Calling Roger James….

Thanks to everyone who braved the weather to come along to our Christmas Tree sale this morning! If anyone knows ...

Easyfundraising – reaches £600 raised!

We have raised over £600 through Easyfundraising - could you help us reach £1000? Sign up now at https://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/causes/43rdbristolscouts/ ...

Quiz & Curry Night Success for the 43rd Bristol Scouts

With a packed Stoke Bishop Village Hall we welcomed over 100 guests to a night of fun, mental challenges and ...

Halloween Fundraiser !

A big thanks to We💚Stoke Lodge for organising and running our hellish Halloween fundraiser. We raised £400 for our new ...

Co-op Local Community Fund – we are nominated for the next 12 months!

We have just heard that as of 28th October 2018, the 43rd Scout Group is a nominated local charity at ...

Sainsbury’s Tour and Doughnuts !

For their first night back the Scouts had a cracking tour around Sainsbury's and stuffed their faces with doughnuts, there ...

43rd Bristol Scouts Newsletter 2018

Please take a few minutes to learn more about our Group and all the many wonderful activities we have been ...

43rd Bristol Scout Group is Sainsbury’s Clifton Down Charity of the Year

We are proud to announce that Sainsbury's Clifton Down have nominated the 43rd Bristol Scout Group to be their Charity ...

Local Business Donates to Scout Community Centre Appeal

The 43rd Bristol Scout Group in Stoke Bishop, BS9 is delighted to have received a £1500 charitable donation from legal ...

43rd Bristol Cubs Support WaterAid With a Water Warrior Sponsored Walk

A hot summer's evening proved ideal for the cub's Water Warrior's Sponsored Walk in aid of WaterAid this month. Each ...

Scouts Raise £150 at their Fundraising Spectacular

The Scouts ran a fundraising spectacular at Canford park as part of their fundraising badge. £150 was raised just that ...

Stoke Bishop Open Gardens Supports 43rd Bristol Scouts

Stoke Bishop Open Gardens runs on July 1st and support us in our fundraising so please support them. More info ...

43rd Bristol Scouts Fundraising Spectactular

Come and support the 43rd Bristol Scouts at their Fundraising Spectacular. Everybody welcome. Scouts Fundraising Spectacular! ...

Another Major Donation for the 43rd Bristol Scout Hut Appeal

A huge thank you to The Rank Foundation - 43rd Bristol Scout Group has been awarded a grant of £3,500 ...

BS9 Arts Trail and Plant Sale This Weekend

We will be once again hosting the BS9 Arts Trail. Every year artists display their work at various sites across ...

New WW1 Book, “Leaving Home to Fight”, Raising Money for 43rd Bristol Scout Group

‘Leaving Home to Fight’ by Liz Tomlinson and Jenny Weeks, brings together for the first time the lives and the ...

Chair of 43rd Bristol Scouts completes Tour de Bristol

Helping to raise funds for a new Scout Community Centre our Chair, Charles Elderton, successfully completed the 100km Tour de ...
St Mary's Church, Stoke Bishop

Fundraising Article in St Marys Messenger

The St Mary's Messenger this month includes an update on the Scout Community Centre appeal, thanks to all involved in ...

Scout Community Centre fund gets boost from Moto…

A huge thank you to Moto for their support of our new Community Centre appeal - our Scouts and Scout ...

43rd Bristol Fund Raising Update

Following lots of events towards the end of last year, the new scout community centre fund now stands at over ...

Bristol Scout Group’s Christmas Tree Sale Brings Local Community Together

A cold Saturday morning didn’t stop the local Stoke Bishop community from flocking to the 43rd Bristol Scout Group’s Annual ...

Local Bridge Club raises £150 for 43rd Bristol Scout Group

A big thank you to Maureen Watkinson for organising a one-off Bridge Drive at St Marys Church, Stoke Bishop, Bristol ...

43rd Bristol Scout Group Receives Charity Cheque from Local Co-op

The Beavers, Cubs and Scouts of the 43rd Bristol Scout Group were presented with a cheque for £1804.68 from the ...

43rd Bristol Scout Group to Celebrate Winning Co-op Local Community Fund

Thank you to all Co-op Members who nominated our Scout Group as their chosen local charity. We are to receive ...

Sell out Quiz & Curry Night for 43rd Bristol Scout Group

Wow. What a night. With 110 guests and 14 teams this was our largest ever Quiz & Curry evening held ...

Secondhand Clothes Sale and Cubbaccino Cafe on 4th November

We are hosting our regular Cubbaccino Cafe at the Scout Hut on the 4th November. This month, as well as ...

Cubaccino Cafe, Manure and Bike Sale raise over £500 for the New Scout Hut

Thanks to everyone who supported the Cubaccino Cafe this week, its was another great success raising over £550 towards out ...

Sleuthing Night a Huge Success

Many thanks to all who attended the Sleuthing night fund raising event last week. It was a fun and sociable ...

Bike and Manure Sale at Cubbacino Cafe This Saturday

This month, alongside our regular Cubbacino Cafe, we are holding our autumn manure sale and, for the first time, a ...

Save the date. Our famous Quiz & Curry Night Returns on Sat 18 November 2017

Tickets will be on sale soon so please start to create your teams of up to 8 people. Last year ...

Easy Fundraising Appeal

We are now registered as a cause on the Easy Fundraising website. Please sign up and support our fundraising for ...

The Best Thing Since Sliced Bread  – Thank You St Mary’s Church

During August a series of sandwich lunches were held by members of St Mary's Church Stoke Bishop and it was ...

Sainsbury’s Active Kids Vouchers – Excitement Is Mounting…

43rd Bristol Beavers Cubs and Scouts are starting to plan how to spend their 2017 Sainsbury's Active Kids Vouchers. Thanks ...

Funding Awarded to 43rd Bristol Scout Group

We are delighted to announce that the Group has been awarded £1610 to purchase new table and chair equipment for ...

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 ...

Co-op Local Community Fund Supports 43rd Bristol Scout Group

We are delighted to have been selected by the Co-op as a local charity it wishes to support over the ...

Live Radio Interview for 43rd Bristol Scouts

On 13 March our Chairman, Scout Leader and two of our Scouts were in the studios of Bristol Community Radio ...

Cubs Speechless with the Success of their Sponsored Silence

This week cubs raised funds in the region of £400 through a Sponsored Silence to help endangered animals in the ...

43rd Bristol Scout Group Achieves New Fundraising Milestone…!

In recent weeks the Group's cumulative 'Hut Fund' total has broken through the £50,000 barrier with funds raised so far ...

Please Check Your Christmas Trees…

The Christmas tree sale was so successful, that we ran out, but we do appear to have mis-placed some Scouts ...

Another Fantastic Christmas Tree Sale

Thank you to the large number of our local community residents who turned out in force for our annual tree ...
Cubbaccino Cafe

Another Successful Cubbaccino Cafe

Thanks to everyone who attended our December Cubbaccino Cafe helping us to raise £130 towards our new Scout Community Centre ...

Guess the Pumpkin – Winner Announced!

In May the Beavers planted pumpkin seeds in our new 43rd scout vegetable garden. We ran a stall at the ...

Bid to Stay in a Cornish Cottage over New Year

Raise Your Best Bid - Use of a Coastal Cottage with Fantastic Views, Sea Glimpses and Wood Burner over New ...

43rd Bristol Scouts in The Messenger

Look out for our flier in the Winter edition of The Messenger ...
Manure Sale

Manure Sale a Hit

Well done to our team of exceptional volunteers for organising and selling all 116 bags of smelly and steaming manure ...

Quiz and Curry Night Success

We had a packed Stoke Bishop Village Hall with 100 people and 13 teams battling it out to be this ...