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Cheyenne Beaver Colony home page, 1st Crowborough Scout Group
1st Crowborough Cheyenne 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.
Cheyenne Beavers colony started in 1983 the second Beaver colony to start in the 1st
Crowborough Group and this was before Beavers were nationally recognised. 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. Beavers obtain badges on a very wide range of
subjects. Cheyenne Beaver Scouts, Blackfeet Beaver Scouts and Arapaho Beaver Scouts have
children of the age 6 years and 7 years. Forest Cub Pack, Warren Cub Pack and Beacon Cub
Pack have youths of the age 8 years to 10 years. Activities for the youth of Crowborough.
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. Cheyenne Beavers are named after an American Indian tribe and they have
CBC Cheyenne Beaver Communications for their newspaper. 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. Scouting in
Crowborough is located at the Crowborough Scout Headquarters in Whitehill Road,
Crowborough. The cub packs are called Beacon Cub Scouts, Warren Cub Scouts and Forest Cub
Scouts. 1st Crowborough Scout Heavy Rock 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. Some people ask what is a group of beavers called? The answer is they are a colony.
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