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Beavers & Cubs at Ringos – December 2025
Both Beaver colonies and Cub packs joined together at Warmwell Ski Centre for a fun packed hour of Ringos!
We also invested two new Beavers while sliding down the slopes and one new adult volunteer – what a memory for all of them!
Welcome to our Scout Group and hope they continue to have many fun adventures with us!
Beavers at the Fire Station – November 2025
Both Beaver colonies joined together for a session at the local fire station.
HUGE thank you to the fire fighters who showed us around the station and some great tools they use to help people finished off with a step inside the fire engines.
Beavers Cooking – November 2025
Both Beaver colonies has ago at cooking spaghetti bolognese from scratch. Chopping mushrooms, carrots, onion, cooking the mince, creating at sauce and cooking the spaghetti.
They all tried it and the majority LOVED IT! Well done to all those that gave it a try even if they weren’t sure
Remembrance Parade – 9th November 2025
Despite the rain we had approx 70 members of our Group and the local Explorer Pod take part in Blandford Forums Remembrance Parade
Cubs Activity Day – 8th November 2025
Cubs went to Budden’s Activity Centre near Wareham for a full day of adventurous activities including; crate stacking, climbing, zip wire, shooting and cooking over a fire.
Well done to all the young people who tried their best and had ago at things they may not have done before and may have been apprehensive about – you did GREAT!
Baloo Invested – 20th October 2025
We welcomed Nick into Shottsford Cubs as a Cub Section Team Member. BIG thank you to Nick for volunteering with us and really hope he enjoys his Scouting adventure with us
Family Quiz Night & AGM – 11th October 2025
A BIG thank you to our Scouts who created and ran a brilliant Quiz night for everyone!
They raised money for Poacher International Jamboree that some of them are doing in 2026.
Our Annual Report and Accounts for 2024-2025 can be found here
Beavers Geocaching – September 2025
Beavers started the term navigating their way to find a Geocache by the Cricket pitch in Blandford. They found it! Deer Park Colony also invested a new Beaver on the Zip Wire at Milldown Park – what a memory for that young person!
Group ‘3 Peaks’ Sponsored Hike – 20th September 2025
The scout group took part in a sponsored hike, doing the three hills/peaks of Hod Hill, Hambledon Hill and Shillingstone Hill, all in aid of raising funds for the 35 Scouts going to Poacher Jamboree next year.
The Beavers just did Hod Hill a walk of around 5km
The Cubs did Hod Hill and Hambledon Hill a walk of around 10km
The Scouts and Explorers did Hod Hill, Hambledon Hill and Shillingstone Hill a walk of around 20km
Blandford Forum Community Summer Fayre
– August 2025
We took our NEW gazebo’s out for the day and raised a load of money at our local Fayre over the bank holiday weekend.
We ran ‘Have a go Archery Sessions’ throughout the day and it was a huge success!
Many thanks to our Archery Permit Holder Scout Volunteer Jon for giving up so much time to be able to run the sessions all day
Beavers, Cubs & Scouts – July 2025
All our sections spent the last week of term cooling down with water activities/games
It has been an AMAZING term! HUGE thank you to all our volunteers and families for supporting our young people… if you have any great ideas, skills or knowledge that you would like to share in a session of any age group please do contact us
Breamore House Historic Weekend – 12-13 July 2025
In July we had some Beavers, Cubs and Scouts attended Breamore House ‘Historic Weekend’ where they looked around at all the steam engines, took part in a great quiz around the museum and helped out by doing a litter pick around the site. Well done to all that attended and the adults that came along to support too
Scouts Kayaking Session – July 2025
Both of our Scout troops enjoyed time on the water with the Stour Valley Canoe Club.
Thank you to all the volunteers for arranging and/or running this session
Beaver Tomahawk Session – July 2025
BIG thank you to our awesome volunteer Hathi/Jon who led Tomahawk sessions for both our Beaver colonies
On the 5th July, 60 members of our Group (that’s only half) went to the Circus! It was a brilliant show, we all had so much fun
June 2025 – 16 Scouts had a taster glider flight at Dorset Gliding Club… a few of our Leaders had a go too (including our Group Lead Volunteer at the end of the video). Parachutes were strapped on before accelerating from 0-60 mpg in just over 3 seconds whilst being pulled into the sky by a winch. Amazing views of the tank training area, coast, Monkey World and back with a slightly bumpy landing. The Scouts returned much more noisy than they left!
At the end of June our Beavers and Cubs went on Summer Camp! They stayed two nights at Buddens, near Wareham. They had a go at bell boating, made rafts, climbed a tower and lots of other team building activities… plus a great campfire with popcorn, s’mores and lots of singing! Big thank you to the adults and young leaders that volunteered for some or all of the weekend, your help was very much appreciated!
Volunteers being Invested – June 2025
HUGE WELCOME to Helen and Alex who have joined our Blandford Scout Group family 
Both were invested by their own children in very special ceremonies 
We hugely appreciate you both volunteering to help our Beaver and Cub teams and really hope you enjoy your Scouting adventure with us
Deer Park Beavers – June 2025
Near the end of June Deer Park Beavers went on a hike however the route was very overgrown so they explored / cooled off in the river at Spetisbury instead
Beavers – June 2025
Both our Beaver colonies had a go at erecting tents and fire lighting in preparation for Summer Camp coming up soon!
Scouts, Backwoods Camp – June 2025
27 of our Scouts had a great time in the woods… They gutted, prepped and cooked mackerel over the fire, improved their fire lighting skills with striker’s, char cloth and king Alfreds cakes and pacing distance for nav and making pacing beads. Followed by cooking sausage in damper bread, a walk and then campfire jackets and beans. In the evening a campfire and popcorn.
Volunteers Social – June 2025
Our volunteers had a night off… relaxing, fire, laughing, eating, fresh air and back to basics camping!
If you fancy helping out in anyway at Blandford Scout Group, and joining one of our ‘nights off’, do get in touch via email
Some of Blandford Cubs and families hiked 8.77km (5.4 miles) around the Cranborne Chase area.. amazing panoramic views!
Beavers – June 2025
Beavers enjoyed a ‘Camp Craft’ themed session and Deer Park colony invested three new Beavers
Beavers – June 2025
A couple of weeks ago our Beaver colonies had an Archery session… for many it was their first go and they were all great! Many thanks to Atlas and to the other volunteers who helped out
Beavers at Blandford Animal Sanctuary – May 2025
Beavers had a great time meeting the goats, sheep, guinea pigs, huge rabbits and more! BIG thank you to our volunteers for organising and to the volunteers at the sanctuary for showing us all the lovely animals
Clean up day – May 2025
HUGE THANK YOU to the many volunteers we had turn up for our clean up day. We got so many jobs done and the hut and grounds are looking GREAT!
Beavers – May 2025
Beavers explore the new Milldown paths and nature area.
Scouts, Cycle Camp – April 2025
Scouts camped at Braggers Wood campsite Friday night and set off for a whole day of cycling around the New Forest. They camped again Saturday night.
St George’s Day Event – April 2025
Beavers, Cubs, Scouts, Explorers, Young Leaders and Adult Volunteers came together to renew our Promises and to celebrate St George. Lots of activities and a BBQ!
Scouts – March 2025
A few of our older Scouts are off to Explorers and so their last session had to involve fire and food!
Scouts, Monopoly Run – March 2025
Our Scouts and some North Dorset Explorers took part in the Monopoly Run. An action-packed day visiting all corners of London. Competing against Scouts and Guides from all around the UK
Scouts, Volunteering – March 2025
Our Scouts enjoyed a couple of hours volunteering at Bere Marsh Farm. Big thank you to Hannah who was great with our Scouts and passed on lots of knowledge about nature and conservation. The Scouts planted trees and then pulled apart Barn Owl pellets.
Beavers, Lego Sleepover – March 2025
They also completed their ‘Experiment’ badge by designing something out of Lego that would fly down a zip wire, making yellow putty and designing a bridge that would hold as many bottles of water as possible. In the evening they watched the Lego Movie and were the fastest group to go to sleep and even woke up a little later than usual!
Scouts, Cooking – March 2025
Most recently our Scout Troops have been working as a team to design and cook some meals, in preparation for Camps
Cubs, Sweet Machine Inventions – March 2025
Our Cub Packs had fun making sweet machines. Some Cubs followed instructions others tried to have ago designing their own inventions
Beavers, Litter pick – March 2025
Our Beaver Colonies joined together for a session of litter picking for their Community Impact badge
February 2025
Meet our resident Fox sprawled across our field, during the early evening, without a care in the world.
Cubs, Science Museum London – February 2025
Our Cubs enjoyed a long but great day at the Science Museum. Level 3 ‘Flight’ was full of everything aviation. In Level 2 there were so many Clocks of all different kinds. Level 1 was all about Medicines. In the ground floor they explored Space and Energy.
Scouts, Signals Museum – January 2025
Our Scout Troops enjoyed a visit to the Signals Museum at Blandford Camp where they worked towards their Communication badge. Big Thank You to the staff at the museum for inviting our Scouts and planning a great interactive session for our Scouts!
Beavers – January to March 2025
Our Beaver colonies worked hard on achieving their Book Reader badge.
Big thank you to Blandford Library for welcoming us to learn about the library and the variety of books they have.
Scouts – January 2025
Scouts invest a new volunteer Leader into the Scout Troop
January 2025
Meet Ridley, a gorgeous hedgehog!
Ridley has moved from a rescue centre to one of our hedgehog boxes, that the Cubs made, at Bushy Farm campsite
Beavers, Home Alone Sleepover – December 2024
Our Beavers and some from The Winterbornes joined together for a two night sleepover.
Big thank you to The Creature Teachers for bringing along a variety of animals for Beavers to meet and handle.
Scouts – December 2024
CONGRATULATIONS to some of our Scouts for achieving their Chief Scout Gold Awards – This is the highest award a Scout can earn. They completed all 9 of the Challenge Awards, plus 6 Activity badges – a true testament to their hard work, dedication, and resilience!
Cubs – December 2024
Enjoyed a great joint meeting Bowling at Tower Park
Blandford Forum Christmas Tree Festival – December 2024
Our Cubs made some fantastic stars for our Group entry into the Blandford Christmas Tree Festival
Remembrance
November 2024
Scouts, Electronics – November 2024
The Scout section completed their electronics badge by creating a lovely light-up greeting card by combining some common household items with an LED and a battery.
Cubs Sleepover – November 2024
Activity day at Buddens Activity Centre in Wareham followed by a sleepover at the hut. Cubs had a go at Climbing, Tunnelling and a Zip Wire followed by cooking pizza’s and a banana dessert over a fire. They also entertained each other around the campfire with some fun skits.
Scouts – October 2024
Scouts took part in a ‘Boiling Water Challenge’. They had to design and build a fire that could boil some water successfully.. the leaders couldn’t resist having a go to!
Beavers – October 2024
Beavers spent a session learning/refreshing their map skills and then followed that with a Geocaching session along the Trailway in Charlton Marshall
Scouts Hike/Camp – October 2024
Scouts navigated themselves from Bere Regis to Lytchett Matravers, approx 10 miles. Followed by sleeping in hammocks, eating lots, laughing and building friendships
Wood Badge – October 2024
HUGE congratulations to Jon B for completing his leader training – Chris (our Group Lead Volunteer) had the pleasure of awarding Jons Wood Beads at camp
Beavers – October 2024
Our Beavers investigated different ways they can build a fire, learnt how to safely light them and then enjoyed cooking over them!
Cub Boot Competition – Aug-Oct 2024
At the start of the summer term some Cubs took on a District Cub Boot Competition. The competition is a testing incident hike where there are a series of checkpoints with challenges that are undertaken and points being won or lost.
Beavers – September 2024
Many thanks to our Archery permit holders for coming to run the sessions. If anyone fancies volunteering to run archery sessions Scouts can provide full training, just message or email us
I’M A LEADER…
I’m not a Scout Leader for the easy hours, high pay, power or prestige.
I’m a Leader because I want the World for young people.
A World they can share and help shape.
A World of love and laughter where they can show compassion.
I want to guide them to know their self worth,
with a deeper understanding of themselves.
I want to help them strengthen their character,
and be sensitive to the needs of others.
I want them to be the best they can be.
In giving my time, I reap rewards far beyond what I give.
I receive a better World for my children and future generations.
I’m a Scout Leader because I care.
Beavers – Lido, July 2024
Beavers enjoyed their last session of the term at Shaftesbury Lido. At the end we had 2 Beavers ‘swim’ through a tunnel up to Cubs! We hope they have fun in Cubs and enjoy the rest of their Scouting adventure
Cubs – Lido, July 2024
Cubs enjoyed their last session of the term at Shaftesbury Lido
Scouts – Fishing, July 2024
Both our Scout troops joined together and went fishing, at Todber Manor Fisheries, for their last session of the term
We had soooooo many volunteers come and help for this session – thank you to you all
Group – AGM, July 2024
All sections and their families came together to celebrate another fabulous year of Scouting in Blandford! After a quick AGM we enjoyed lots of fun games for everyone to enjoy (flour + water = fun?!?!), refreshments, raffle and doughnuts!
A bonus to the fun was raising approx £280 for the Scouts Essex Jamboree!
Thank you to everyone who came along to support and celebrate with us and to all the volunteers who helped plan and run the event
Cubs – Chief Scout Silver Awards, July 2024
HUGE WELL DONE to our some of our Cubs; Sam, Huw, Mackenzie, Sebastian, Noah, Riley, Zachary & Martha for achieving their Chief Scout Silver Awards this term. It’s a really big achievement, and they should be very proud of themselves!!
They couldn’t achieve these without the support of our volunteers – BIG thank you to them for their time and dedication to planning and delivering awesome sessions and events
Scouts – Hay Day, Child Okeford, June 2024
Then in late June more of our Scouts ran a stall at the Hay Day event in Child Okeford. Nerf wars, glitter tattoos, teddy tombola and selling popcorn and handmade bracelets!
This and the Milborne Fair made a total of £399.51 to go towards their Essex Jamboree.
Big thank you to all the Scouts and volunteers that helped plan, prepare, run and pack up for either/both of these events
Beavers – Crabbing, June 2024
Around Fathers Day the Beaver section tend to run a Crabbing session on Poole Quay… this year the weather was brilliant and we caught soooo many crabs!
We also invested a new Beaver into Deer Park Beavers
Scouts – Archery, June 2024
BIG thank you to the Archery Permit Holders for running Archery sessions for Cubs and Scout sections this term.
Cubs – Raft Building, June 2024
Both of our Cub packs did a raft building session at Buddens… a couple of loose barrels but lots of fun had by all.
Thank you to our raft building permit holders plus the volunteers and parent helpers that came along to help
Beavers – River, Spetisbury , June 2024
Both our Beaver colonies enjoyed a session at the river (although Deer Parks’ session got cut a little short due to the typical english weather).
Beavers had made rafts the week previous so we raced them – most of the floated! We found all sorts of little wildlife living in and around the river.
May Fair 2024 , Milborne St Andrew
Our Group and some volunteers from Blandford Scout Troop ran a stall yesterday at May Fair 2024, Milborne St Andrew, raising money for Essex Jamboree. We had nerf gun targets, hook a duck, making robot keyrings and Aiden sold his handmade paracord items.
Beavers – Bournemouth Aviation Museum, May 2024
Our Beaver colonies and The Winterborne Beavers joined together for a visit to the aviation museum. Despite the rain, they had a great time exploring in and out of all the different aeroplanes and helicopters etc..
Cubs – Summer Camp Ferny Crofts, May 2024
Our Cub packs joined Charlton Marshall for a fun packed 2 night stay at Ferny Crofts in the New Forest. Climbing, Aeroball, Cave Bus, Go Karting, making pizza’s and more!
Beavers – Automobiles, May 2024
‘Around The World’ theme in Beavers this term… this week they learnt about Cars. They designed their very own roadway with bridges, roundabouts and tunnels. We then raced our cars around the track to see who could complete the circuit the fastest.
Scouts – Pioneering, May 2024
Scouts are continuing to develop their pioneering skills by working together to build a Da Vinci Bridge – a pioneering structure with no ropes!
Beavers – Air Activities, April 2024
‘Around The World’ theme in Beavers this term… this week they learnt about Aeroplanes – how planes fly, different types of aircraft and then made their own paper planes.
Scouts – Essex Jamboree, April 2024
In April our Scouts that are attending Essex International Jamboree met to discuss the menu for camp. This included doing some detailed research into shopping lists, portion sizes and costs for each meal.
Beavers – Trains, April 2024
‘Around The World’ theme in Beavers this term… this week they learnt about trains, safety around railway stations and built their own tracks.
Scouts – Pioneering, April 24
Both our Scout troops have been working on their pioneering skills, developing their skills in lashing and knot tying.
20 local Scouts will be attending Essex Jamboree (EIJ2024) from the 27th July to 3rd August 2024 for an unforgettable seven days and nights. EIJ brings Scouts and Guides together from across the UK and around the world.
Part of attending a Jamboree event is to help fundraise for travel and activity costs etc.. We have seen first hand the positive impact that fundraising can have on the young people – shy Scouts suddenly gaining confidence from calling out raffle numbers, or coming up with new innovative ways to raise funds. The young people are part of this, and this is one part of their Jamboree journey.
So far our Scouts have made Christmas items and sold them at the Blandford Yuletide Festival, they set themselves and the Beavers and Cubs to an epic sponsored ‘3 Peaks Challenge’ (climbing Hod Hill, Hambledon Hill& Okeford Hill). They have also planned and ran a Quiz night; including creating the questions, designing the advertising poster, taking money on the night, reading the quiz questions and running the refreshments.
If you would like to support them in their fundraising please contact us
3 Peaks Challenge I March 2024
Beavers, Cubs & Scouts walked over Hod Hill, Cubs & Scouts continued over Hambledon Hill and Scouts completed the challenge by climbing Okeford Hill – all raising money for Scout Essex Jamboree.
HUGE thank you to all the young people and adult volunteers for coming along and supporting this event!
Total £1369.50
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