A summer of successful Scouting!

Two recent awards were presented, the John Kemp Community award, was gained by Jake Round for helping the Scout Troop raise funds at last years Botley fete. The Jim Wale Conker Cup was eventually won by George Murphy, after a marathon final against Oli Lewis.  This was spread across three Scout evenings.  The conkers started to go soft…

A great Scouting adventure!

Since our last report, the young people at the 4th Oxford Scout Group have been involved in a range of adventure! If you’re 6-99 why not come and join us, either as a youth member or an adult helper! The Cubs (8½-10) buddied up with 2 other Cub packs to camp at Youlbury, Boars Hill,…

4th Oxford Cubs successful at District Sports Day

On Saturday 7th June 5 cubs from the 4th Oxford pack joined around 90 other cubs at the Horspath Athletics track for a day of sports and athletics. Each cub participating earned their Athletics badge and all five of our cubs also managed to score enough points to earn their Athletics Plus badges too. Not…

Buzzing in Botley!

As I write, famous adventurer and Chief Scout Bear Grylls has just made a surprise visit to Youlbury Scout Camp Site (Boars Hill), to join the celebrations as hundreds of Oxfordshire Beavers, Cubs, Scouts and Explorers were presented with achievement awards, including some from the 4th Oxford (by Matthew Arnold School) and 15th Oxford (based…