Winchester Scouts have won an £8,000 grant from Tesco to build a new amphitheatre style Camp Fire Circle at their Pinsent Camp Site.

You can see all this at:
http://www.winscouts.org.uk/development/pinsent-camp-fire-circle/

This amazing new facility replaces the old circle that dates back to the 1930s
when Pinsent was donated to Winchester Scouts.
The new Camp Fire Circle will seat 300 Scouts at any one time – an increase
of 200 to accommodate so many more young people and parents wanting to
share in the modern SCOUTING ADVENTURE. There are now 11 Scout
Groups in Winchester, with 50 sections and 300 leaders for over 1,200 young people.
The rebuild will be one of the largest camp fire circles in the UK – a
testament to the growth in local Scouting and the demand for camping at
Pinsent.  This cements Scouts as Winchester parents’ preferred destination for young peoples’ character development and adventure based non-formal education. Scouts call this ‘learning by doing’.

Welcome to our new, re-launched website.  We want to make this a useful place for everyone in the Group, where you can find information and news, so if there are things you would like to see here, then do let us know and we will see what we can do !

Richard (Group Chair)

Our 2015 Christmas Carol Service will be held at the Scout Group HQ on Wednesday 16th December.  Please come along at 6.45pm for a 7pm start.

There will be mulled wine and mince pies and the chance for a chat afterwards, and each section is putting together a short piece to perform during the service.

I look forward to seeing you all there !

Many thanks to the Beavers and Cubs who turned up to help with our fund-raising bag pack at Tesco on a wet Sunday morning in July.

We had some great feedback from the customers and after a long coin counting session we found we had raised £309 for the Group in just two hours – well worth while, so thank you to everyone who supported this event !

We were delighted to award 29 badges at tonight’s pack night – well done Cubs for all your hard work.

See details about the exciting new badge programme for all sections here http://prepared.scouts.org.uk/. We will gradually swap over until the autumn term, so don’t worry if you’re half way through something. In fact, we need to empty the badge box so get on with it!