Being a Scout is all about learning new skills, trying new activities and making the most of what you have, wherever and whoever you are.
Alongside your new friends, you'll gain the skills and try things you'd never get the chance to do at home or at school - working with great volunteers to achieve whatever you set your mind to.
Scouts are boys and girls aged between 10.5 and 14. The Scout Troop is split into smaller groups called Patrols, each led by a Patrol Leader and an Assistant Patrol Leader; our Patrols are Lion, Cobra, Stag and Eagle. We normally have between 25 - 30 Scouts in our Troop.
There are loads of exciting things that you can do as a Scout. You will get a chance to try lots of different activities like indoor surfing, zorbing, archery, kayaking, camp in the great outdoors, and even go on trips abroad. If you do them well you will get a badge which you can wear on your uniform. Even if you don't know any of the others when you start, you'll soon have lots of new friends.
We often join up with our Beaver Colony or Cub Pack (or both!), and with Scouts from across the country, for more scouting fun and to help the local community.
You can add your child to our waiting list for Scouts here.
If you would like to enquire about volunteering to support our Scout Troop, or find out more, please get in touch.
Wondering whether to join/move up to Scouts or not? One of our Scouts explains why you should...
Moving up to Scouts
I was very excited about the thought of moving up to Scouts but I was also a bit nervous because I knew some people but I wasn’t sure if they knew me, or if I would get on with everybody, or if they would take me in as part of
I was invited to two Scout meetings but I could only make one. I felt pretty nervous before I went in, but I really enjoyed it and everyone was really nice to me.
After Christmas I properly went in to being a Scout and joined in every week. As a SCub (an uninvested Scout who has moved up from Cubs) you take turns in every single patrol to see who you work best with.
So far some of my favourite weeks have been the Pizza Shop Challenge around Fenstanton, chocolate cookery at Swavesey Village College and making a bird box at Copley. But the very best part of Scouts so far has been the camp. We did so many fun activities, we cooked our own breakfast, the food was delicious, our evening activities were brilliant (and I won the first one J) and everyone got on very well. We all had a brilliant time. On the last day we did a hike in our Patrols and I was with the Lion Patrol. We had some brilliant map readers in our Patrol so we did the route backwards to make sure every single group was going the right way. We had to direct two patrols to the right way.
At Scouts you do a lot more things out and about which are more challenging than the things you do in Cubs. You get to experience a lot of different things you may never have done before and you are given more independence to find your own way and do things for yourself without an adult.
Scouts is really fun and I strongly recommend that every single Cub should go and do it. I can’t wait to be invested and become a proper Scout.
By George
Being a Scout is all about learning new skills, trying new activities and making the most of what you have, wherever and whoever you are.
Alongside your new friends, you'll gain the skills and try things you'd never get the chance to do at home or at school - working with great volunteers to achieve whatever you set your mind to.
Scouts are boys and girls aged between 10.5 and 14. The Scout Troop is split into smaller groups called Patrols, each led by a Patrol Leader and an Assistant Patrol Leader; our Patrols are Lion, Cobra, Stag and Eagle. We normally have between 25 - 30 Scouts in our Troop.
There are loads of exciting things that you can do as a Scout. You will get a chance to try lots of different activities like indoor surfing, zorbing, archery, kayaking, camp in the great outdoors, and even go on trips abroad. If you do them well you will get a badge which you can wear on your uniform. Even if you don't know any of the others when you start, you'll soon have lots of new friends.
We often join up with our Beaver Colony or Cub Pack (or both!), and with Scouts from across the country, for more scouting fun and to help the local community.
You can add your child to our waiting list for Scouts here.
If you would like to enquire about volunteering to support our Scout Troop, or find out more, please get in touch.
Wondering whether to join/move up to Scouts or not? One of our Scouts explains why you should...
Moving up to Scouts
I was very excited about the thought of moving up to Scouts but I was also a bit nervous because I knew some people but I wasn’t sure if they knew me, or if I would get on with everybody, or if they would take me in as part of
I was invited to two Scout meetings but I could only make one. I felt pretty nervous before I went in, but I really enjoyed it and everyone was really nice to me.
After Christmas I properly went in to being a Scout and joined in every week. As a SCub (an uninvested Scout who has moved up from Cubs) you take turns in every single patrol to see who you work best with.
So far some of my favourite weeks have been the Pizza Shop Challenge around Fenstanton, chocolate cookery at Swavesey Village College and making a bird box at Copley. But the very best part of Scouts so far has been the camp. We did so many fun activities, we cooked our own breakfast, the food was delicious, our evening activities were brilliant (and I won the first one J) and everyone got on very well. We all had a brilliant time. On the last day we did a hike in our Patrols and I was with the Lion Patrol. We had some brilliant map readers in our Patrol so we did the route backwards to make sure every single group was going the right way. We had to direct two patrols to the right way.
At Scouts you do a lot more things out and about which are more challenging than the things you do in Cubs. You get to experience a lot of different things you may never have done before and you are given more independence to find your own way and do things for yourself without an adult.
Scouts is really fun and I strongly recommend that every single Cub should go and do it. I can’t wait to be invested and become a proper Scout.
By George
