Frequently Asked Questions

Welcome to the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) pages. Below, we have tried to answer the most common questions visitors to this our website may have. If you find that your question is not answered on this page, please Contact Us to answer your query directly.

Meetings and Activities

When do you meet and how often?

Normally all sections meet once a week during term time.
Beavers meet on Mondays or Thursday evenings, Cubs on Tuesday or Wednesday evenings, Scouts on Friday evenings and Explorers on Monday evenings.

Where do you meet?

All sections normally meet at our Scout Headquarters in Station Road, Cheddington. Occasionally meetings will be held at various other locations, but you will be notified of these well in advance.

What do you do?

The Scout Association provides adventurous activities and personal development opportunities for 400,000 young people aged 6-25. Internationally, we have over 28 million young people enjoying the benefits of Scouting across 218 countries.

In practical terms this means providing a range of indoor and outdoor activities for young people which encourage them to have fun. This can be anything from learning to light a fire to cooking to playing games to craft activities.

Cubs and Scouts are given the opportunity to go camping where the traditional aspects of Scouting such as campfire songs are mixed with a whole range of physical activities such as climbing, walking, games and archery to name but a few.

Will my child be insured when on Scouting activities?

Yes, all members of the Scout Association are covered under a Personal Accident and Medical Expenses Policy.

Who are the Leaders?

All leaders are volunteers and many of them have been scouts themselves or are parents of existing Scouts. Full details of our leader team are available here. They are all vetted by the Scout Association. Subject to the relevant child protection checks, anyone can be a leader. You simply need to enjoy helping young people. Full guidance and training is provided. If you are interested in being a leader please Contact Us.

How can I help?

Parents can always provide valuable help for the group in all sorts of ways. These include:

Parents rota, to provide occasional help at weekly meetings
Support activities such as helping a leader with an administrative task or organising an particular activity
Maintenance activities for our headquarters such as helping on the grass cutting rota
Helping with weekly meetings, outdoor activities or fundraising events etc.
Assistant Leaders, uniformed to help out with meeting nights and camps etc.
Executive Committee Members, to help out with fundraising ideas etc.

Please contact the Group Scout Leader if you think you can help.

Frequently Asked Questions

Miscellaneous

How do I become a member of the website?

For security reasons, certain information on this website is restricted to registered members only. To obtain an account, please use the 'Create an account' link on the left hand side of the home page. Once you have completed your details, a link will be sent to your email address for you to verify this is correct and then an administrator will enable the account. Please note that this could take a couple of days. You can contact the administrator of the website at any time.

What's the Law and Promise?

The relevant Law and Promise for your section can be found under ‘Information’ in your section’s area of the website

How can I become a leader?

The group always welcomes offers of help from adults (18 and over). You would normally start by helping out on a regular basis and build up experience and responsibility over time. All leaders and helpers are subject to CRB checks and checked for suitability before being allowed to be alone with young people. The Scout Association also offer training for all positions. If you are seriously considering becoming a leader or have been a leader with another group then please Contact Us.

What does the scout executive committee do?

The scout executive committee is made up of a mixture of leaders and parents who meet regularly to plan fundraising activities for the group and organise group events. They oversee the allocation of group funds, maintain all group equipment and organise fundraising events. An AGM is held every year to which all parents are invited during which the officers are elected and the financial audit presented. The executive committee would welcome any parent wishing to join at any time.

My question has not been answered

If you still have a question that has not been answered here, please ask us using the Contact Us form.

About Us

If you want to find out more about 1^st Cheddington Scout Group, how the Scout Group works and the environment we operate in then you should be able to find the answer in this section.

Select the area of interest from the menu on the left.

Thank You

Thank you for your application. Your details will be added to our records and we will contact you shortly to let you know when you can expect to be able to join.

Acknowledgements

A website like this can only be put together with the help and support of many individuals and organisations who give their time freely for others.

1^st Cheddington is therefore very grateful to the following:

The Joomla! development team and the army of extension developers throughout the world who have created the Joomla! environment that powers this website (current installed version 2.5.8).
John Barrett who developed the Scouting template that we modified as a basis for our site.
The developers of the following Joomla! extensions:
- aiContactSafe
- Attachments
- JCE
- JEvents
- Joomvita Vitabook
- Kunena Forum
- LazyDbBackup
- RIE
- Xmap sitemap
The leaders and supporters at 1st Cheddington for providing the content of the website and keeping the information up to date.

And, of course, the young people in the group who make it all worthwhile.

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