We provide fun, challenge and adventure for young people in and around Stocksfield, Northumberland
Calling all parents and local businesses! You can help us raise funds for our new hut without leaving your house! When shopping online, if you register once with the Give as you Live website, then shops in the scheme will donate a proportion of your purchases to the Scout Group. This doesn’t cost you anything and every purchase will bring a smile to the Beavers, Cubs and Scouts in Stocksfield.
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Local residents can use Scout Post to have cards delivered to addresses in Broomley, Hedley, Mickley and Stocksfield (with a NE43 postcode). Cards should be placed into the special Scout Postboxes located in the two Post Offices in Stocksfield and we ask for a minimum donation of 20p per card. Collections start on the 1st of December. The final date for posting is 12 noon on the 19th of December.
The cards are delivered by members of the Scout Group. Beavers, Cubs and Scouts can collect their allotted cards from Philippa’s house (25 Cade Hill Road) between 3pm and 7pm each Friday.
This weekend ex-Stocksfield Scout Stephen Harpin is heading south to Gran Canaria to join the rest of the crew of the Toby Wallace and begin the final preparations for their race to Barbados. This includes capsize drills (hopefully the water will be warmer than the North Sea).
When their training is complete, they will wait for favourable weather before beginning their record-breaking attempt to row across the Atlantic. More details were published in Saturday’s Hexham Courant.
We will be posting details of the boat’s progress and plotting it on a map in the Scout Hut as soon as the Toby Wallace departs.
Beavers, Cubs and Scouts will be helping to raise funds for the new hut through sponsorship of Stephen’s endeavour and we encourage readers to support him too.
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The Beavers recently had a visit from local folk group the Stocksfield Stompers. It was a great night which the Beavers really enjoyed – they have never been so quiet! We heard music from Northumberland and from Poland which fits in well with the work for the Global Challenge badge. Many thanks to the very talented young Stompers, an inspiration to us all.
Last week the Cubs began a mysterious process involving salt, jars and something else. Any guesses?
Beavers, Cubs, Scouts and leaders will be joining in the annual Remembrance Sunday celebration on November the 9th, marching in uniform from Stocksfield Station to the War Memorial. Parents are very welcome too! Please wear poppies if you have them.
We will meet in the Railway Station Car Park at 10.30 am, dressed ready to walk to the memorial. We should be back at the car park by about 11.30 am, with refreshments served afterwards at the community centre (SICA).
We hope for an especially large turnout given that this year will mark 100 years since the start of the First World War.
The new Beavers Autumn Programme has been posted.
Note that unlike Cubs and Scouts, Beaver activities will all take place at Stocksfield Baptist Church.
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We are delighted that Bob Hubbuck has agreed to carry on leading Scouts – at least for the moment. We need more adult leaders – if you can help at all, please get in touch with Bob or Malcolm.
Bob is trying to resurrect a Scout troop at Haltwhistle (you may have read about this in the Hexham Courant) so he needs to change the day of the troop night at Stocksfield. From now on Scouts will meet on a Thursday night at 7.30 pm. The first meeting of the new term begins on the 18th of September.
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Former Stocksfield Scout, Stephen Harpin, is joining a crew of eight in early November to attempt to beat the 32 day world record for rowing across the Atlantic from Gran Canaria to Barbados – a distance of 2598 nautical miles!
He is raising money for the new hut – please sponsor him.
Once the boat leaves the safety of the harbour, the team will be on their own and at the mercy of the elements. We hope that Stephen will be able to make use of all the experiences he gained through Scouting to ensure that he and his colleagues make it safely across the Atlantic.
We will keep you updated about his progress.
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The pictures below give a flavour of the challenge, excitement and fun that was had at this year’s camp at Kingswood.
