Group Activities

The Scout Group takes part in two big parades a year, St George’s Day and Remembrance Day and we ask for ALL of our members to make the effort to attend these important events in the Scouting Calendar.  We also take part in 6 further Church Services throughout the year and hope to see many of our Beavers, Cubs and Scouts attend these also.

St George’s Day Parade

We join the rest of Chesterfield District Scouts to parade through the Town Centre and take part in a service to celebrate St George, the Patron Saint of Scouting.  All Beavers, Cubs & Scouts should attend in FULL, SMART uniform.  This year’s parade will take place in the afternoon of:

Sunday 24th April (1.30pm – 4.15pm)

Remembrance Day Parade

The Scout Group will be take part in the annual Remembrance Parade and Service in Brimington along with the Air Cadets, Royal British Legion and Girlguiding Groups. We ask all Beavers, Cubs, Scouts & Young Leaders to attend wearing FULL SMART UNIFORM and a poppy.  This year’s parade will take place in the afternoon of:

Sunday 13th November (1.30pm – 3.15pm)

Church Services

The Scout Group also attends 5 parade services a year at St Michael’s Church in Brimington.  Beavers, Cubs, Scouts and Leaders should meet outside the Church Hall at 9.45am in FULL, SMART uniform.  Parents are welcome to stay for the service, or collect youngsters at 11.15am.

Sunday 6th March

Sunday 8th May

Sunday 3rd July

Sunday 2nd October

Sunday 27th November

As well as these church parade services, we also take part in the Nine lessons and carol service at St Michael’s – this will take place on the evening of

Sunday 18th December

The Scout Group comes together once every half term to take part in joint activities, investitures and presentations.  New members have the opportunity to take their promise on these evenings and Moving On ceremonies for those youngsters moving to the next Section also take place at these Group events.

This year’s Group Nights will take place on:

Friday 5th February

Thursday 24th March

Friday 13th May

Friday 15th July

Friday 7th October

Friday 9th December

Further details about these events will be sent out as activities are confirmed.

The Group will once again be joining together for a sleepover at the National Emergency Services Museum.  This year’s sleepover will take place on:

Saturday 2nd – Sunday 3rd July

More details will be made available later in the year but to see what we go up to at last year’s sleepover, check our website: http://brimingtonscouts.org.uk/wp/photo-gallery/wppaspec/oc1/po1/cv0/ab1

This is an annual event organised by the Scout Group for the local community as well as our younger members and activities include Easter Egg hunts, sports and lots of Egg based fun!  Whilst the activities are aimed at the younger age group, there are refreshments on sale for the adults and the Scouts are asked to attend to help run the activities.  This year’s event will take place on:

Sunday 27th March (Easter Sunday)

The fun starts at 11.30am (following the Easter Sunday service at St Michael’s), all games and activities are free for the youngsters to take part in and Beavers, Cubs and Scouts are asked to wear Scouting tops.

Beavers, Cubs, Scouts and their families are invited to join us and camp for a weekend each year.  This year’s Group Family Camp will take place on:

Friday 23rd – Sunday 25th September

A family camp allows parents to come along as well as the youngsters and see what our Beavers, Cubs and Scouts get up to.  It gives younger members who are nervous of camping, the opportunity to experience a Scout Camp whilst having the security of their parents with them.  It will also allow parents and younger siblings the chance to have a go at some of our activities for themselves and have an enjoyable weekend with us.

Whilst the purpose of this camp is to camp as families, we will also allow Beavers, Cubs and Scouts to camp without their parents if necessary but cannot take younger siblings without parents.

More details will be made available later in the year but to see what we go up to at last year’s Family Camp, check our website: http://brimingtonscouts.org.uk/wp/family-camp-2015/

After the success of last year’s event, the Scout Group will once again be organising a Bonfire evening for the local community as well as our members.  There will be a bonfire, indoor and outdoor activities and new for this year will be a BBQ selling hot food.  Unfortunately, due to health & safety restrictions, we will not have a fireworks display but there will be plenty of other things on offer.  This year’s event will take place on:

Friday 4th November

Beavers, Cubs and Scouts are asked to wear Scouting tops to this event.