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Blackfeet Beaver Colony home page, 1st Crowborough Scout Group
1st Crowborough Blackfeet Beaver Scouts are a very active Beaver Colony with loads of activities for beaver scouts. Many weekends
there are events in addition to the exciting and very varied programme in the evenings.
Blackfeet Beavers colony started in 1988 the third Beaver colony to start in the 1st
Crowborough Group. 1st Crowborough Scout Group which is located in Ashdown District.
Ashdown District is in East Sussex in the south east of England in the UK. Chapman Troop, King Troop and Southon Troop have young people from the age of 11 years to 13 years. Arapaho beaver
Scouts, Blackfeet Beaver Scouts and Cheyenne Beaver Cubs have children of the age 6 years
and 7 years. Warren Cub Pack, Forest Cub Pack and Beacon Cub Pack have youths of the age 8
years to 10 years. Activities for the youth of Crowborough. Beavers obtain badges on a
very wide range of subjects. Southon Scout troop has a rock band named Southon Rox band.
Crowborough Scout Group has a tradition of producing Scout Shows and Gang Shows over the
past 80 years. Cubs and Scouts go camping and there are loads of adventure doing
adventurous activities. . ..The 1st Crowborough magazine and
news paper is called Whitehill Whispers. Crowborough Scouts take part in the prestigious
Overland competition which is reckoned to be the most challenging competition in the south
east of England. Blackfeet Beavers are named after an American Indian tribe and they have
black feet as their logo. Crowborough Scouts take part in the Downsman competition which
they won in 2005. 1st Crowborough Scout Group have close links with our Dutch Scout
friends in Maarssen, near Utrecht, Holland, Netherlands. The Explorer unit that meets in
Crowborough and has explorers from all over Ashdown District is named Tullis after Julie
Tullis the famous mountaineer from Crowborough. The cub packs are called Beacon Cub
Scouts, Warren Cub Scouts and Forest Cub Scouts. 1st Crowborough Scout Band is located at
Crowborough Scout Headquarters. Crowborough is sometimes misspelt as Crowborogh or
Crowborow or Crowboro. The other Scout Troops are called Chapman Troop and Hemens Troop.
The beaver colonies are called Blackfeet Beaver Scouts, Arapaho Beaver Scouts and Cheyenne
beaver Scouts. Scouting in Crowborough is located at the Crowborough Scout Headquarters in
Whitehill Road, Crowborough. A group of beavers are called a colony.
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