Renewal of Promise Fun Day

On Sunday, Beavers from across the Brentwood District gathered together to celebrate St Georges Day by having a Fun Day at Thriftwood Scout Camp. They took part in a wonderful variety of activities, including jousting, a crossbow challenge, making musical instruments, making Jubilee cakes, a forest ...

Fundraising for Shelter Box

During the last half term, the Beavers took on the challenge to raise money for the disaster relief organisation, Shelter Box.  They all did extra chores, good deeds or donated some of their pocket money to raise a wonderful £70.00. Our donation will be put together ...

Chicken Run?

On Sunday,  Asst Beaver Scout Leader Eagle joined hundreds of other keen runners to take part in the Brentwood Fun Run.  Eagle kitted up in a parrot suit and flew around the course in a cracking time .  Despite supporters thinking he was a chicken, ...

A taste of Mexico

This week the Beavers got a taste of life in Mexico.  One of our parents kindly ran a programme all about her home country, giving the beavers a chance to play traditional Spanish games, try speaking the language and bake some home-made Quesadilla (cheesy tortillas). It ...

Beavers Dragon Boat Racing

Last week the Beavers were celebrating the Chinese New Year of the Dragon.  They took on a chop stick challenge, sent some unusual messages with Chinese Whispers and had great fun on our indoor dragon boat!  

Scouts (attempt to) build a model aircraft

  You know, building an aircraft is harder than you think! That Aeronautical Badge is hard work! Above is the "easy" model after approx 2 hours of construction from one of the Scout Patrols. ...

Beaver End of Term Presentations

Tuesday 6th December saw our last meeting for 2011.  The children performed our Beaver version of the '12 days of Christmas' and all of the children received badges after a great term of hard work and fun.  Now it's over to the mum's and nan's ...

A personal message from the Chief Scout to you

Getting ready for the Gang Show

Last night the Scouts planned and practised their Gang-Show sketches ready for next week. Each Patrol has planned something funny that should involve all members and be great fun to watch. I know that the group that I was helping are going to be acting ...

Sainsburys Active Kids kit being put to good use…

  Last Tuesday the Beavers started working towards their Healthy Eating activity badge by making some triple decker sandwiches.  They put the newly arrived Active Kids aprons to good use as they buttered and filled their sarnies to the brim.  They then made some spotty biscuits ...

Beavers at the Science Museum

On Saturday 12th November our Beavers took part in a District trip to the Science Museum in London.  Everyone got hands-on in the Launch Pad area and had great fun experimenting with shadows, splitting light, water pressure, magnets, wave electricity, thermal imaging and circuits.  We ...

Scouts Cancelled – not by choice!

It was a real shame that we had to cancel last nights Scout meeting. Sadly, there was no-one available at Thriftwood to let us into the building that we had booked with them, so after waiting around for about an hour, and "checking for life" at ...

Bowling at Hollywood Bowl

As an end of term "special" 3rd Brentwood Scout Troop went to Hollywood Bowl in Basildon last night for a few games of bowling. We occupied three lanes and caused utter chaos. Lane One was filled with the older Scouts, and even though they used the ...

50/50 Club results for 2011

Good news - the 3rd Brentwood 50/50 Club has been brought up-to-date and draws have taken place for the whole 2011 year to date. The results are shown below: Ticket No. Amount

Mini-Megan and Little-Lucy!

  At the Secret Nuclear Bunker event we found two young beavers who looked like younger versions of two of our Scouts. It was scary for the younger ones to see what they ...