We are the 23rd Portsmouth Scout Group. On the 10th of July an electrial fault caused a fire at our equipment store, the fire burned for a while before the smoke was spotted by one of the residents in a house overlooking our building. They called the fire brigade who quickly arrived and put out the fire.

We have lost all our tents, sleeping bags, blankets and associated equipment used to take inner city children camping on a regular basis, and need to start from scratch. This has obviously been a very hard year, as where the Group has not been meeting at all, we have not been able to have any form of income.