Scouts
Skills for Life
Scouts prepares young people with skills for life through fun, adventure, activities and friendship!
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By 2025 there will be:
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Over 25 million young people in Scouts, worldwide
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547,000 young people in UK Scouts, made up of 487,000 young people aged 6-18, plus 60,000 Squirrel Scouts
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88,000 frontline adult volunteers (Section Leaders and Assistant Section Leaders)
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19,500 Young Leaders
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Quite literally millions have gone before them!
1st Broomfield Scout Group
Supporting Young People In Our Local Community
Here at 1st Broomfield Scout Group, we're privileged to be a part of preparing our local young people for life ahead.
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We have around 130 young people in the Group across 6 sections ranging from 6-18 years of age:
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BEAVERS (Aged 6-8)
Wednesday Beaver Colony (5.00pm - 6.15pm)
Thursday Beaver Colony (5.30pm - 6.45pm)
CUBS (Aged 8-10 1/2)
Dinizulu Cub Pack (Thursday 7.00pm - 8.15pm)
Kantankye Cub Pack (Wednesday 6.45pm - 8.15pm)
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SCOUTS (Aged 10 1/2-14)
Monday Scout Troop (Monday 6.00pm - 8.00pm)
Jotnar Scout Troop (Monday 6.30pm - 8.30pm)
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CHELMSFORD DISTRICT EXPLORERS (Aged 14-18)
(Monday 8.00pm - 9.30pm)
Our Heritage
Lord Baden-Powell
Scouting began with 20 boys and an experimental camp held during the first nine days of August 1907, at Brownsea Island, Dorset. The camp was a great success with tent pitching, use of a map and compass, cooking over a wood fire and tracking.
It proved to its organiser, Lord Baden-Powell, that his training and methods appealed to young people and really worked.
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From those earliest days, Scouting flourished with Scouts being recognised for their role during both world wars and continually evolving to become the fantastic youth organisation of today.
Scouting in Broomfield
Scouting began here in Broomfield around 1918. Originally based in a wooden hut where the waste paper skip is now found, the current Scout HQ, just off of School Lane was built in 1974.
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Our two Cub Packs pay homage to the founder of Scouting, Lord Baden-Powell who had a close affinity with Africa and folklore tells of him capturing and befriending Chief Dinizulu of the Zulu tribe (although other versions of the story exist!)
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During that same period, the natives of the Matabeleland affectionately came to know Baden-Powell as 'Kantankye' or 'He of the big hat'.
Today, 1st Broomfield Scout Group supports over 130 young people providing them with fun, adventure and skills for life!
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FUNdraising...
At 1st Broomfield we're extremely proud of the strong relationship we maintain with our local community and we're so grateful for the support it has provided over the years.
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We raise funds, as a Registered Charity to be able to provide and subsidise many of the activities and adventures we run for our young people.
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There are two ways you can easily support us...
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WASTE PAPER COLLECTIONS - the paper and cardboard that the local community dispose of in the skip raises in the region of £6,000 per year!
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THE INFAMOUS SCOUT BOOK SALE - every year, a team of volunteers collect, sort, set out and run a Book Sale, open to all with literally thousands of books on sale in the Scout HQ. It draws huge numbers of visitors and this year raised an amazing £5,000!
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As a community, your support and contributions have a massive impact on what we can achieve and deliver for our young people. Please do continue to support us!
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THANK YOU!
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