Welcome to the website of 1st Weybridge (Brooklands Own) Scout Group.

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updated 17/03/2010
Assistant Beaver Leader Required – Start Immediately

We are very sad that our lovely Parm, Beaver Leader, has had to leave us due to work commitments which leave the 1st Weybridge Beavers in need of another fun, organised and friendly Assistant Beaver Leader.

You will need to enjoy working with children, having fun and organising weekly activities for the Beavers (aged 6-8yr olds) for their 1hr 15min sessions per week.

This is a volunteer position (un-paid) but the rewards are huge, the smiles and laughter from the boys every week and the joy you will bring to them as they look forward to their weekly session and learn wonderful life skills are gratifying.

You will be a part of the oldest Scouting Group in Surrey and will have a great support crew to help you.  Official training will be given.

START DATE immediately •  Please call Becky on 01932 852670 for more information

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Present Day Scouting at 1st Weybridge
Our Beavers have great fun, creating, co-operating, playing games whilst learning all the key points of scouting.  We are very lucky to have our very own Scout Hut and meet weekly during term time and arrange various trips throughout the year which help work towards gaining their badges.

1st Weybridge Beavers Tug-o-War Oatlands Village Fayre May 09

History of 1st Weybridge (the oldest scouting group in Surrey)
Established in 1907 when six boys studied and practiced the lessons Lord Baden-Powell taught in his book “Aids to Scouting” on woodcraft, tracking skills, and survival.  Their names – T. Kirk, C. Aylott, A. Lyddon, F. Armstrong, Shackleford and Todman – are given in a fading newspaper cutting showing a photograph taken in 1908.

These six boys were the nucleus of the first Scout Troop in Weybridge.  In those days there was no uniform.  In the newspaper cutting they stand stiff and awkward or sit cross-legged, each one wearing a different style of clothing. The one thing they have in common is the pride with which they each hold firmly a wooden staff, a symbol of their united purpose, their shared enjoyment and their open acceptance of Lord Baden-Powell’s training in the value to survival of a length of wood.

“Aids to Scouting”, written to Robert Baden-Powell as an Army Training Manual, but considered so important that it was used as a text-book in boys’ schools.  Baden-Powell was encouraged to write “Scouting for Boys” published in 1908, which started the success of the Scout Movement when more and more Scout Troops sprung up all over this country.