When and Where we meet
Our About page details when and where our Beavers, Cubs and Scouts sections meet.
Uniform and Badges
Scouts is a uniformed organisation. Information about the uniform required for each section is available on The Scout Association website:
- Beaver uniform and badge placement
- Cub uniform and badge placement
- Scout uniform and badge placement
All Young People and uniformed adult volunteers also wear the 91st Bristol’s red and white necker.
Uniform can be bought online (e.g. Scout Store – other online vendors are available), or locally (e.g. Monkhouse in Bedminster).
When a Young Person is invested in to the 91st Bristol Scout Group, we will provide them with:
- a World Scout Badge,
- an Avon Scouts County Badge,
- a Cabot Scouts District badge,
- a 91st Bristol Scout Group name tape, and
- a 91st red & white necker
Young People are expected to keep their necker and to move these badges from their Beaver to Cub to Scout uniform as they progress through the sections.
As they are invested in to a section, each section will also provide a Young Person with a woggle for their necker.
Through their activities and endeavours our Young People will earn awards and further badges which are also worn on their uniform. The above links also show where all badges and awards should be placed.
We always encourage our Young People to sew on their own badges, especially when they get to Scouts – skills for life!
Online Scout Manager
Our Beaver, Cub and Scout sections all use Online Scout Manager (OSM) to help run their programmes, organise activities and to record our Young People’s awards and track badge progress.
Parents are also required to use OSM – to share and keep up to date important contact, medical and safety information about their Young People; as well as to manage payments for termly subscriptions, activities, events and camps. Using OSM means we don’t have to pester you with paper forms for every event. This is a good thing!
Parents can also use OSM to give consent for photographs and agree to Gift Aid. Gift Aid allows us to reclaim tax on parent’s subscriptions; it increases our income but at no cost to parents … which is nice!
Parental access to OSM is by invitation only. When a Young Person joins a section, parents will receive an invitation email to access their Young Person’s OSM record in that section. If you don’t receive such an invitation, please talk to the section’s adult volunteers.
Comprehensive help on how to use OSM (e.g. to manage payments) is available within OSM, once logged it.
Parent Helpers
All of our sections welcome help from our parents at our weekly meetings and events. If you are interested and able to help out, however occasionally, please do talk to your section’s adult volunteers.
Subscriptions
We charge subscriptions to cover the cost of running the 91st Bristol Scout Group – 3 subscription payments per Young Person, per year. We also charge separately for activities like camps. All payments are requested through and managed by OSM.
If you are struggling to afford subscriptions or events, please speak directly and confidentially with your section’s adult volunteers or our group lead volunteer. The Scouts are inclusive and never want financial hardship to prevent a Young Person from participating.
Young Person’s Behaviour Policy
All Scouting, but especially Scouting at the 91st, should be a fun, rewarding, educational and above all a safe experience for all involved – Young People, Young Leaders and Adult Volunteers alike. To allow this to happen, we expect a certain level of behaviour from all of our Young People.
We want to help our Young People by setting clear and consistent behavioural expectations, as well as being open about a process of fair and graduated consequences our adult volunteers will follow if these behaviour expectations are not met. Both are set out in our Young Person’s Behaviour Policy:
Some of our sections have also simplified this information for their Young People:
Kit Exchange
Our Young People need good kit to comfortably and safely take part in our outdoor activities, such as hikes and camps. But good kit can be expensive, and our Young People have a habit of growing out of it all too quickly! We therefore run a Kit Exchange box.
The Kit Exchange is used by the whole group (so Beavers, Cubs and Scouts) and is an excellent opportunity to donate any unwanted/grown-out-of outdoor kit for someone else in the group to make use of. Just as importantly, any Young Person or Parent is welcome to look through the Kit Exchange to look for items they may need. Just ask one of the section volunteers for access.
The Kit Exchange usually has a good selection of kit: walking boots, waterproof coats, waterproof trousers, walking trousers, jackets, fleeces, etc. Sometimes also a uniform shirt or jumper.
The 91st Bristol Scout Group runs a private Facebook group for Parents and members of the Group:
We are part of the Cabot Scout District who have their own Facebook page:
Privacy Policy and Data Privacy Notice
Registered Charity
The 91st Bristol Scout Group is a registered charity. Our annual reports and accounts are available on the Charity Commission website: