Welcome to 1st Appleby Magna with Measham Scout Group
Can you help, we are looking for Volunteers to help across the group, so please get in touch if you can help in any way.
Group Documents
Group Documents
The Scouting Programme
Every year we help over 450,000 young people in the UK enjoy new adventures; to experience the outdoors; interact with others, gain confidence and have the opportunity to reach their full potential. Working alongside our youth members are thousands of adult volunteers, with a huge variety of roles and opportunities available.
We are the UK's biggest mixed youth organisation. We change lives by offering 6 to 25-year-olds fun and challenging activities, unique experiences, everyday adventure and the chance to help others so that we make a positive impact in communities.
Scouts helps children and young adults reach their full potential. Scouts develop skills including teamwork, time management, leadership, initiative, planning, communication, self-motivation, cultural awareness and commitment. We help young people to get jobs, save lives and even change the world.
What do Scouts do?
Scouts take part in activities as diverse as kayaking, abseiling, expeditions overseas, photography, climbing and zorbing. As a Scout you can learn survival skills, first aid, computer programming, or even how to fly a plane. There’s something for every young person. It’s a great way to have fun, make friends, get outdoors, express your creativity and experience the wider world.
What do volunteers do?
This everyday adventure is possible thanks to our adult volunteers, who support Scouts in a wide range of roles from working directly with young people, to helping manage a Group, to being a charity Trustee. We help volunteers get the most out of their experiences at Scouts by providing opportunities for adventure, training, fun and friendship.
Our award-winning training scheme for volunteers means that adults get as much from Scouts as young people. Our approach focuses on what you want to get out of volunteering with Scouts, while respecting how much time you can offer. Over 90% of Scout volunteers say that their skills and experiences have been useful in their work or personal life.
We are the UK's biggest mixed youth organisation. We change lives by offering 6 to 25-year-olds fun and challenging activities, unique experiences, everyday adventure and the chance to help others so that we make a positive impact in communities.
Scouts helps children and young adults reach their full potential. Scouts develop skills including teamwork, time management, leadership, initiative, planning, communication, self-motivation, cultural awareness and commitment. We help young people to get jobs, save lives and even change the world.
What do Scouts do?
Scouts take part in activities as diverse as kayaking, abseiling, expeditions overseas, photography, climbing and zorbing. As a Scout you can learn survival skills, first aid, computer programming, or even how to fly a plane. There’s something for every young person. It’s a great way to have fun, make friends, get outdoors, express your creativity and experience the wider world.
What do volunteers do?
This everyday adventure is possible thanks to our adult volunteers, who support Scouts in a wide range of roles from working directly with young people, to helping manage a Group, to being a charity Trustee. We help volunteers get the most out of their experiences at Scouts by providing opportunities for adventure, training, fun and friendship.
Our award-winning training scheme for volunteers means that adults get as much from Scouts as young people. Our approach focuses on what you want to get out of volunteering with Scouts, while respecting how much time you can offer. Over 90% of Scout volunteers say that their skills and experiences have been useful in their work or personal life.
Subscriptions
When your child joins the group you will be sent an email with details of how to pay.
The Subscriptions help to cover the cost of insurance of our ‘Meeting Place’ as well as things like badges and materials for activities carried out at their meetings. Some other activities such as camps, will incur extra costs.
In Addition…
During January we have to fulfill the Scout Associations census and pay Capitation for each member of the Group. Failure to pay this, either directly or through targeted fund raising, will result in your child not being allowed to partake in Scouting activities, as Scout Insurance will not cover them.
If at any point paying for either subscriptions, capitation or for activities becomes an issue please speak to one of the Group’s Leadership team.
We can claim the income tax paid on all the monies that are paid to us. This includes money paid for subscriptions, capitation and activity costs. This means that for every £1 paid to the Group we can claim 25p back from the Inland Revenue. In addition to being an easy fund raising method, it means that we can keep costs of activities as low as possible. To enable us to do this though you need to fill in a “Gift Aid Declaration” form, which is available from your leaders. Thanks.
The Subscriptions help to cover the cost of insurance of our ‘Meeting Place’ as well as things like badges and materials for activities carried out at their meetings. Some other activities such as camps, will incur extra costs.
In Addition…
During January we have to fulfill the Scout Associations census and pay Capitation for each member of the Group. Failure to pay this, either directly or through targeted fund raising, will result in your child not being allowed to partake in Scouting activities, as Scout Insurance will not cover them.
If at any point paying for either subscriptions, capitation or for activities becomes an issue please speak to one of the Group’s Leadership team.
We can claim the income tax paid on all the monies that are paid to us. This includes money paid for subscriptions, capitation and activity costs. This means that for every £1 paid to the Group we can claim 25p back from the Inland Revenue. In addition to being an easy fund raising method, it means that we can keep costs of activities as low as possible. To enable us to do this though you need to fill in a “Gift Aid Declaration” form, which is available from your leaders. Thanks.
Trips and Activities
In order to supplement the weekly meetings and to ensure that everyone has the best opportunities. There are very few activities that members of The Scout Association are actually banned from doing. Consequently if it is possible, to do something, and there is a large enough request to do something we will try to organise it.
However, when organising trips or activities we often have to impose a cutoff date for responses. This is generally due to purchasing tickets, completing all of the necessary risk assessments and making arrangements with the ‘Home Contact’ for the event.
These cut off dates will be strictly adhered to. Consequently if subsequent to your child being accepted on a trip or activity, if they are unable to attend please let us know as soon as possible.
Another cut off reason may be a number of people taking part. For instance if we are only able to offer places to 10 members due to the number of available canoes for example it´s important that everyone turns up because their place could have been given to another child.
However, when organising trips or activities we often have to impose a cutoff date for responses. This is generally due to purchasing tickets, completing all of the necessary risk assessments and making arrangements with the ‘Home Contact’ for the event.
These cut off dates will be strictly adhered to. Consequently if subsequent to your child being accepted on a trip or activity, if they are unable to attend please let us know as soon as possible.
Another cut off reason may be a number of people taking part. For instance if we are only able to offer places to 10 members due to the number of available canoes for example it´s important that everyone turns up because their place could have been given to another child.
The Group
The group is part of the Ashby and Coalville District in the County of Leicestershire
The Cub pack was formed in 1971 by Pam Cox and the Scout Troop formed the next year by Tom Wilkes. Meetings were held on Wednesdays in the Church Hall.
A timber building was donated by a Company in Burton and rebuilt as our HQ on Measham Road opening in 1984, the group merged with Measham in 1999 and a refurbishment programme was completed in 2009 on the 10th anniversary of the merged group. Officially opened by David Taylor (then MP)
We have recently commenced a major refurbishment programme of the hut which is now over 30 years old, the fundraising campaign "Don't Shut the Hut" was run in 2016 and this allowed us to carry out the first phase (see restoration in progress), however further upgrade plans are in place, and we would welcome any help with fundraising activities.
The Cub pack was formed in 1971 by Pam Cox and the Scout Troop formed the next year by Tom Wilkes. Meetings were held on Wednesdays in the Church Hall.
A timber building was donated by a Company in Burton and rebuilt as our HQ on Measham Road opening in 1984, the group merged with Measham in 1999 and a refurbishment programme was completed in 2009 on the 10th anniversary of the merged group. Officially opened by David Taylor (then MP)
We have recently commenced a major refurbishment programme of the hut which is now over 30 years old, the fundraising campaign "Don't Shut the Hut" was run in 2016 and this allowed us to carry out the first phase (see restoration in progress), however further upgrade plans are in place, and we would welcome any help with fundraising activities.
Pictures from fundraiing activities and the opening of the original hut in 1984.
