Welcome to Beavers

Beavers meet on Friday evenings from 18:30hrs to 19:30hrs at The Scout Headquarters, The Old Village Hall, (opposite The Kings Head Pub) Bures Road, Great Cornard, CO10 0JE.

Activities

We offer a wide and varied range of activities that provide a balanced programme letting each member to work to work towards their challenge and activity badges.

These badges are part of the National Beaver Programme aimed at encouraging development and providing new challenges.

Activities are both indoor and outdoors, they include individual tasks as well as team games.

They range from arts and crafts and educational items to sports and District and County Beaver events.

Investiture

New Beavers will be invested in 4 to 6 weeks once they have a Beaver Jumper and have learnt their Beaver Promise and Law.

Investitures will take place at the end of the meeting – family members are welcome to attend.

We will supply a scarf (Maroon and White edged at a cost of £6 to the Parent/Guardian), woggle and badges at investiture.

Uniform

This can be bought from Scout Shops on line at www.scouts.org.uk: or please speak to Leaders.

Beaver uniform should be worn every meeting, once invested, unless otherwise stated.

We will supply a scarf (please see Investiture above).

Subscriptions

Subscriptions are payable to 1st Great Cornard Scout Group, they are currently £40 a term per Beaver.

Subscription money pays for membership fee to Gillwell Park (Association Headquarters), Insurances, badges, buildings/grounds, general repairs and evening activity costs unless otherwise stated. It does not include District events.

How to join the Group: Please contact us for joining enquiries, from time to time we have a joining list, the age range is 6 years to 8 years old.

Please contact: Kieran Doherty
Mobile: 07400527750
Email: flagman.doherty@sky.com

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