Our cubs section needs a new leader team to get it going after a break over lockdown. We need four volunteers. Seize the day and be one of them! One of the roles is Section Leader, who brings the team together and also works with our Group Scout Leader. As a team you’ll pick badges …
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Resuming activities
The Scout Association is following the governments’ four-stage approach to resuming normal activities. It has developed guidelines for what can be done safely at each stage. 1st Trumpington are making plans to resume activities in the new school term according to those guidelines. Nationally we are now in “amber” which means we can do some …
AGM 2020
The group is still going strong in COVID lockdown, with Beavers and Scouts sections holding virtual meetings, leaders taking training, and the exec taking care of the group’s resources. We all look forward to resuming normal operations, which will we expect to happen at the same time that schools go back. It currently looks like …
COVID-19
With regret, all Scouting has been suspended for all sections until further notice. As a group; the Leaders and Group Executive have been monitoring the current situation with regard to COVID-19, however after the statement from the Prime Minister last night the Scout Association has informed all groups across the country that face-to-face scout meetings, …
Two challenges for 2020
In the Scouts every challenge is an opportunity to grow, so I’m happy to announce that 1st Trumpington has TWO coming up. Can you help? Absolutely! Our first challenge is storage space. This falls in the category of “problems it is good to have” because the reason we need storage is because we’ve grown to …
Christmas Camp
Beavers and Cubs attended Christmas Camp at 1st Whittlesford and Duxford Scouts’ amazing hut over the weekend. This is one of our annual events and always features Christmas crafts, bouldering, caving, camp cooking, campfire, spooky stories, s’mores, movie night, and sleeping in the loft. Thanks to our friends at 1st Whittlesford and Duxford!
Colour party joins Remembrance Sunday ceremony
A colour party is a group of Beavers, Cubs and Scouts given the job of carrying our flag at formal events. Young members from all three sections formed a colour party for the Remembrance Sunday ceremonies at Trumpington war memorial. Also present were Trumpington Guides, the congregation, officers and clergy of Trumpington’s Parish church St. …
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Catching up from Summer 2019
Wow what a busy summer we had! Beavers, Cubs and Scouts all had a great programme of activities up to the summer break, including building various kinds of shelters. We ran our first ever AGM (we’re a charity so we have to have one) where the Scouts organised the venue and a BBQ for us …
Help tell our story!
As a new Scout group we’ve been really focused on getting ourselves up and running. I am very happy to say we have definitely achieved that! We are now well into our second year, with established Beavers, Cubs and Scouts sections. Now, to keep on doing what we do, we need to reach out into …
Welcome to our new website!
1st Trumpington have been growing steadily since starting up in September 2017, and we’ve ambitions for a lot more! Having had some generous help from Cambridgeshire Scouts to get up and running we’re now a fully fledged Scout group with three sections and an executive committee. Our focus for the next year is to keep …