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Scout Post - delivering your local Christmas cards again!
5th November 2025
Scout Post is back ready for this festive season! Stamps at just 40 pence each are now ready for you to buy from the wonderful people at the following places and can collect your Christmas cards in our green post boxes. Last posting is 3pm on 2nd December and the Scouts will deliver your...
Summer Raffle and Annual Meeting - 23rd June - winning ticket numbers
25th June 2025
Our Summer Raffle and Annual Meeting was held on Monday 23rd June at 7.15pm at our Scout hut. Thank you to everyone who took part. Here is a list of prizes kindly donated by local businesses and organisations: First prize: New Forest Wildlife Park - family ticket - 1418 Second...
Community Support
3rd February 2025
Local Community Support Towards the end of last year we were fortunate to receive a £250 donation from Co-op Fordingbridge towards a new events shelter. Thank you so much for the continued support within our local community. https://membership.coop.co.uk/... ...
Reindeer Trophy
26th January 2025
Well done to 1st Fordingbridge Squirrels for winning the first ever Reindeer Trophy. They worked really hard today and made us proud! ...
The Tony Parker Awards 2024
1st July 2024
Congratulations to our Tony Parker Award winners for 2024! All of our team volunteers voted for their Squirrel, Beaver, Cub and Scout of the year. Young people were recognised for their development, kindness, team-work, integrity, bravery and demonstration of Scouting values. ...
Squirrel Scouts
20th October 2023
Exciting News! A brand new Scout Section for 4 to 6 year olds will start after the October Half Term break. Squirrels will be meeting on Mondays from 4.30 to 5.30pm. ...
Volunteer in a Way That’s Good For You
26th August 2022
Volunteering opportunities ...
Scout Post
23rd January 2022
Scout Christmas Post We would like to thank everyone – children and adults – that were involved in the Christmas Post. We had ten of our bright green post boxes in shops and premises around the Town and at Sandleheath. We delivered a total of 1484 cards all over the area – from...
#GoodForYou
29th May 2021
With activities and adventures aplenty, it's no surprise that Scouts has been shown to be good for young people. But did you know that it's good for volunteers too? https://www.scouts.org.uk/goodforyou/ ...
District Shop to Close
19th August 2020
Unfortunately our District Uniform Shop at Strides Lane has now closed. We have therefore added a number of uniform items into our 1st Fordingbridge Group Shop, in addition to our range of casual clothing. Uniform sweatshirts for Beavers and Cubs and long sleeved uniform shirts for Scouts are now...
No Change in COVID19 Restrictions for Scouts
13th June 2020
Suspension of Scouting Update: We have received a number of enquiries recently asking if it is possible in the near future to consider running socially distanced Scouting activities. The Scout Association have been very clear on this and continue to provide the same message - face to...
Group Scout Leader
1st January 2020
Congratulations to Tony Parker who has taken on the role of Group Scout Leader at 1st Fordingbridge following his time as Deputy District Commissioner and Local Training Manager for many years, as well as his other roles. Tony will be carrying on with his role as Campsite Manager for Harry's...
Casual Group Clothing Shop
23rd October 2019
1st Fordingbridge Scout Group are pleased to launch our online shop for non-uniform group clothing and accessories. Group t-shirts continue to be available from section leaders and form part of the Summer uniform. Uniform items can continue to be be purchased from the District Shop at...
Fright Night
19th October 2019
1st Fordingbridge Cub Scouts enjoyed a spooky day of activities, including owl and insect handling, fairground games, archery, tomahawk throwing, zorbing and crafts. The day was rounded off with a spooky woodland walk complete with alien encounters, pirates, ghosts and ghouls, before enjoying a...
Swim Safe
26th July 2019
A huge Thank You to Swim Safe and Surf Steps for organising an after school session for 1st Fordingbridge Cub Pack last night!! Thank you for your patience allowing all children to participate with varying abilities and additional needs. Thank you to parents for making the dash from school to...
Fundraising Success
21st July 2019
A huge thank you to all of those who donated, organised and volunteered their time to make Fordingbridge Festival such a success. The Plate Smashing and the Toy Tombola were both busy all day and we raised a fantastic total of £327.66 for the Scout Group. ...
50 Years of Scouting!
17th July 2019
Congratulations to Bill Edwards for completing an outstanding 50 years of Scouting! Deputy District Commissioner for New Forest West, Tony Parker, presents the 50 year service award at the District AGM. ...
AGM
13th June 2019
Please join us on Monday 24th June for the 2019 AGM. Time: 7.30pm Location: Fordingbridge Scout Hut Refreshments will be provided. ...
Quiz Night Tickets Available
20th May 2019
Tickets are now available for the Quiz Night. The event will be held at the Scout Hut on the evening of June 7th. This will be a fun night with a hot supper included in the ticket price. All funds raised will support our Explorer Scout Unit. ...
Be Prepared To Scoop The Poop!
14th April 2019
1st Fordingbridge Cub Pack filled reused plastic bottles with dog waste bags to help keep our town of Fordingbridge clean. Have you spotted any yet? ...
Hampshire County Chess Competition
31st March 2019
Cubs from 1st Fordingbridge Cub Pack represented the New Forest West district at County Chess this year. The competition is divided into the under 9 1/2 years and over 9 1/2 years age category, with one district entry in each division. Cubs from all districts across Hampshire competed, with 27...
Teddy Bear Donations
29th March 2019
The Fordingbridge Festival will be held on 20th July 2019. The Scout Group will be running the popular teddy tombola at the festival to raise funds for the group. If you have any clean, good condition soft toys that you can donate, we will gladly take them in. Please bring them along to meetings...
Cubs Help Raise Awareness
25th March 2019
Fordingbridge Cubs Help Raise Awareness 1st Fordingbridge Cub Scouts created community posters to help raise awareness of how people should behave in The New Forest National Park, to help protect forest stock and wildlife. They learnt about New Forest commoners and the role of stock animals on...
Renovating the HQ, latest update
28th July 2016
The latest information, plans and 3D illustrations can be found by gpoing to ... Renovating the HQ > Information Book or clicking the image above to read as an eBook. ...
