Baxenden Beavers - Easter Fun

We’ve come to the end of another term and the beaver scouts have worked really hard and achieved four new “activity” badges. These have been undertaken in stages over a period of weeks both on and off base and include the following: Emergency Aid 1, Health Eating, Health and Fitness and Faith.

So, after all this hard work, it was time for the beaver scouts and leaders to let their hair down.

This entailed a visit to Bowley Scout Camp for a traditional Easter egg hunt and not so traditional camp fire songs in the lodge - cordially helped along with warm drinks, hot cross buns for the adults and squash and chocolate Easter cakes for all the children (hospitality very kindly provided by our scouts).

Of course what truly made the evening entertaining was persuading all of the parents to join in with the leaders and go head-to-head at the egg and spoon race - needless to say here that the BSL leader cheated and the "leaders" team consequently forfeited the race!

All in all we had a fun filled evening and both the beavers and the leaders are looking forward to another fun packed term after the Easter break!

Baxenden Beavers - District Football Competition

The Hyndburn district football competition was held on Sunday 18th February 2007 in the Sports Barn at Bowley.

Four teams entered including, All Saints Dunkenhalgh "A" and "B" teams, St Paul's Barnfield and 1st Baxenden.

We all had a really fun afternoon, with great sportsmanship shown by all the teams. The event was refereed by Steven Simpson, of Baxenden Cubs, who did a sterling (non biased) job. We are proud to report that 1st Baxenden where runners up, after playing exceptionally well, and winning all their games prior to the final match. All beavers who took part received a certificate of participation. The winning team All Saints Dunkenhalgh "A", will go through to take part in the county competition later this year.

Baxenden Beavers - Centenary Year of Scouting

Scouting is now the world’s largest voluntary education youth movement, spanning over 200 countries. There are more than 28 million scouts in the world today and this year we are celebrating the Centenary Year.

There will be many events taking place throughout the year, the first major event was the Founders Day Service which some of our Beaver Scouts attended, this took place at Blackburn Cathedral on the 22nd February 2007. This was a service of thanksgiving for our founder Sir Robert Baden Powell who began the Scout Movement, 100 years ago. The service was led by the young scouts and was attended by all representatives of the scouting family across East Lancashire, including former scouts and leaders.

The East Lancashire Centenary Camp is being held at Bowley Scout camp over the Spring Bank Holiday weekend. All members of the scouting family from beaver scouts to explorer scouts, leaders and helpers from East Lancashire Scouts are invited to attend for the celebrations. Further information will follow.

Year Books:

Our beaver scouts are developing their own personal year books to help them commemorate this important year of scouting. The year books are being updated on an ongoing basis, and will include photographs, keepsakes, crafts and annotations from many of their weekly activities, work towards their badges and all events that they partake in and throughout the centenary year.