With just over a month to go, the training is ramping up. Your donation will provide myself and Georgie a motivational boost as we tackle 100km. My mantra through the hours of putting one foot in front of the other (much to the amusement of others) is the Beavers need a hut!

It’s not just the Beavers who will benefit please see below for more about this important community project.

As many of you will know, the Scout Hut next to Victory Hall has been our home since 1976, after our Group was set up in 1970. Originally an RAF canteen building dating from World War II, it has seen hundreds of local children pass under its roof – not just in Beavers, Cubs and Scouts, but Rainbow and Brownie Guides too, as well as playgroups.

Unfortunately, the building has now come to the end of its life, and it is no longer economical to repair it. So it is with sadness that we must have it demolished and a new Hut built in its place. To do this, we need to raise a significant amount of money, not only for the building itself but for planning consultancy and permission, internal fixtures and fittings, groundworks etc. We hope that a new, fit-for-purpose Hut will be used not only by the Scouts and Guides, but by other comunity groups as well.