We have two troops which meet on Mondays and Fridays.

Belfast meet on a Monday night from 6:30pm to 8:30pm.
It is led by Tracy Cartland-Ward (C-W for short) and Nikki Gardiner.

Victory meet on a Friday night from 7:30pm and 9:30pm.
It is led by Chris Kinch, David Ferrington, Dave Ebel and Nikki Gardiner.

In general, those moving from Cubs until the age of 12-12½ will join Belfast on Mondays. Once our Scouts reach the age of 12 the leaders will review them and when it is felt they are ready to join the older members of Scouts they will be offered a place with Victory on a Friday. Exceptions to the above may be made, but we do ask the parents to discuss this with Tracy or Chris.

Keep in touch
If you need to contact one of the leaders simply use their full name (replacing the space with a “full stop” ) and add @2ndBracknell.co.uk. Failing that, click on "Contact us" and complete our enquiry form.

The Summer Term programme is now online. We have changed this to pdf format. If you want to look a bit further ahead see our 07/08 planner or the diary page.

St George's Day parade
This important date in the Scouting calendar takes place this year on Sunday 27 April, All Scouts are asked to attend and full details of the arrangements are on our St George's Day parade page.

New Scouts
We have two Cubs moving to Scouts this term and would like to wish them a very warm welcome as they continue with the next step of their Scouting life.  The dates for the moving-on and investiture for these scouts is available in the 07/08 planner with moving-on taking place at 7:50pm during the normal Cub meeting and Investiture taking place at 8:15pm during the Scout meeting.

Joint Troop Meetings
Whilst our younger and older Scouts meet on different evenings, we like to ensure at that there are a couple of joint troop meetings during each term. This term we are having two joint troop meetings:

• Friday 9 May, 7.30pm to 9.30pm
• Monday 21 July, 6.30pm to 8.30pm

This means there will be no troop meetings on Monday 5th May or Friday 25th July.

Back to Basics Camp: 9th - 11th May
This is really just a reminder date for the diary, as all places are currently fully booked. This camp will hopefully become a regular event in the Scout year and is aimed at some basic Scout Camping skills for those with fewer Scout nights away. This year we are camping at Walton Firs with a programme full of basic skills, including tent pitching, Backwoods Cooking and Bivouacking.  Look out for all the pictures, I'm sure we will have several online at the end of this camp.

Catch-Up Camp: 30th May - 1st June (TBC)
Both the name and dates of this camp are to be confirmed, but we do hope to run a general camp, with places for those that have not been able to make (or book) for camps so far this year.  As we have grown, there have been more demand for camp and nights away than we have been able to provide spaces for.  With this in mind we are hoping that this mid-term camp will give those that want to camp a chance to spend some nights-away with Scouts.  Watch out for future e-mails on this camp, and remember book as soon as you can (once the details are released) to avoid disappointment.

Summer Camp: 26th July – 2nd August
This is really just a reminder date for the diary, as all places are currently fully booked. The camp will this year will be a joint camp with our Cub Scout Packs. We are going to Cranham in Gloucestershire from Saturday 26th July to Saturday 2nd August. We last went to Cranham in 2004 (see our Past Events page). All deposits for the camp should have been paid by now.

... and finally
Some of you may have noticed, with the Walton Firs - Back to Basics Camp, that we introduced a new process for booking and confirming Scouting events.  This new process has worked well and it is our intention to continue the process for all future events. For those of you that don't know what I am referring to, we have decided to introduce a deposit confirmation system.  What this means is that when you/your child is offered a place on a camp or event the place will only be confirmed on receipt of the event deposit.  This is vital for several reasons:

• we have grown and as a result there are less places on events than we have demand for; 

• 2nd Bracknell Scouts is a registered charity and we need to ensure we balance the event costs out with the event costs in; 

• this process helps the poor leaders keep track of and organize things a little easier; 

• and one of the most important reasons is that it has been disappointing for those on the waiting list to not get a place on an event, only to then discovered afterwards that there were people who booked but didn't turn up resulting in places going spare, but without the notice to offer the place to others.

I know those that have come to Scouts from Cubs are already used to having to pay the deposit for events before getting a place, but for those that are not we hope the implementation of this new system does not caused you any concern.  As usual if you do have any concerns then do contact the Scout Leaders.

Fund raising the easy way
2nd Bracknell has joined the "buy.at" network which means that we earn commission on things you buy online if you go through our online shop at http://buy.at/2ndbracknell. You'll find over 100 retailers there including M&S, Game, Expedia, play.com, HMV, Amazon, John Lewis, Thorntons and Field & Trek. You pay the normal online price which is generally less than on the High Street so you can raise money for us and still save money.

Scout Shop
If you need uniform then the Scout Shop is the place to go. The Scout Shop page has more details and includes a map showing how to get there.

Badge Requirements
We don't publish the requirements for badges on our site. To ensure that you are looking at the latest information follow the link to Badges & Awards and find the badge on Scoutbase. You can also find information about where the badges go on your uniform.