20 scouts and leaders will travel to Malawi in Summer 2008 in order to undertake various good works and charitable projects.

Total costs are estimated at £33,000 which will be funded partly by those going, from grants and from general fundraising activites.

We need your support -  you can donate through this site or send donations of any kind, items for auction/ raffle / your support at our fundraising events.

You can donate through this group site or you can donate through the individual sites of the scouts & leaders that are going on the trip.

Big thanks to Alex Mellon for kickstarting our fundraising with the donation of two tickets for the Formula One practice days at Silverstone in June 2008, complete with breakfast, lunch and access to the pits to see the team cars up close.

Some basic information about Malawi -

Malawi is the 7th poorest country in the world.
It has a population of approximately 12,5 million; of those 750,000 are orphans, a figure increasing by 65,000 a year.
Over 200 people die of AIDS each day.
Life expectancy in 1997 was 41; now it is 36.
48% of children in Malawi are chronically malnourished.
In the last decade maternal deaths in childbirth have increased by 100%.
One in four children die before the age of five.
7% of the population have electricity.
42% of the population are illiterate.


The basic aims of the trip are -

1. For Poulner scouts to visit young people of their own age and younger in local schools and scout groups

2. To promote the twinning of 1st Poluner scouts with scout groups within Malawi

3. To work and play with local young people and to gain an understanding of theirt way of life and cutlure

4. To promote the growth of two scout groups at Mzuzu and Chinteche

5. To promote a focus for the whole of the scout group

6. To achieve the scouting 'Whole Group International Award'.