Tag: 1st Little Stoke Scout Group

The 1st Little Stoke Scout Group will be 70 years old in 2022 and there are plans to hold a number of events to celebrate this huge milestone. The group started in February 1952 and was housed in a wooden hut near the allotments off Bush Avenue. In 1963, the HQ moved to its current location in Rossall Avenue…

Little Stoke Beavers, Cubs and Scouts are all set to restart their face-to-face programme after having had to meet via Zoom for the last 18 months. The leaders and children are all keen to get back to fun Scouting activities and enjoying the outdoors as much as possible after being ‘locked down’ for so long.

As lockdown begins easing across the country, 1st Little Stoke Scouts have begun to resume face-to-face meetings. This is a particularly exciting time for the Beaver section, who will be meeting face-to-face at the Scout hut for the first time in July…

During the enforced closure due to the third Covid-19 lockdown, the 1st Little Stoke Scout Group has made significant improvements to its headquarters adjacent to the children’s play area in Little Stoke Park. In the summer holidays, Mad Science are going to be using the building for summer science camps.

Following the good news that schools and shops are opening again following the fall in Covid-19 case numbers and the roll-out of the vaccine, 1st Little Stoke Scout Group are getting ready to welcome children and leaders to meetings at their headquarters off Rossall Avenue.

The start of a new term at 1st Little Stoke Scout Group saw all the sections continuing with an online programme using the Zoom videconferencing platform. These sessions have been a brilliant way for all the members involved in Scouting to get together, share their experiences and love of Scouting.

During lockdown, all sections of the 1st Little Stoke Scout Group have been running exciting sessions online using Zoom. These sessions have been a brilliant way for all the members involved in Scouting to get together, share their experiences, their love of Scouting and continue to learn skills for life.

Members of 1st Little Stoke Scout Group have not met face to face since the end of March, however, Scouting has continued at home with leaders contacting their sections via email and using Zoom video conferencing. All three sections have been involved in the national ‘Hike to the Moon’ initiative.

On Sunday 8th December, ten excitable Beavers from the 1st Little Stoke Scout Group met at Bitton Station, as part of a district organised event to meet Santa on the Santa Express. As the Beavers boarded the train, for many a first experience of riding a steam train, they were thinking carefully about all the things they were thankful for