St. Georges Craft day
Whitley Bay & District Beaver Scout Colonies

Saturday 25th March our Beaver Scout Colonies joined together to prepare for St. George's Day. We had 72 Beaver Scouts taking part in various craft activities throughout the afternoon with the story of St. George being acted by their Colony Leaders. The Beaver Scout Colonies are very grateful to St. Albans Church, Earsdon, for allowing us to meet at their Church Hall.

The afternoon commenced with the Beaver Scouts eagerly visiting the craft bases to make items based on the theme of St. George.

The bases consisted of:-
" The Shield of St. George
" A Knights helmet
" Knights Armour
" A St. George Flag
" A Sword
" A dragon mask
" Sheep (the dragon had to eat something)
" And a St. George Flag made of biscuit and icing sugar.

Beavers' and Leaders' alike had great fun. Leaders and Young Leaders joined together to present "The Story of St. George" with actions. The Leaders themselves had been working hard throughout the afternoon making their own items to use throughout the story and judging by the laughter, the Beavers thought their efforts were great.

Whitley Bay District
Beaver/Cub Carol Service

Held at St. John's Methodist Church
Ilfracombe Gardens, Whitley Bay
On 8th December 2005
From 6.30 to 7.30 pm

The 20th Whitley Bay Scout Group, hosts of the annual Beaver/Cub Carol Service, would like to thank everyone who attended and took part.

This years Carol Service was based on "Breaking News Headline", whereby the Broadcasting Beaver Cub Carol Service - BBCCS for short - brought us News stories of a "mans" life whose birthday was over 2005 years ago. We started the service with the colourful spectacle of Beavers and Cubs parading their flags followed by the good news of District activities, such as the Beaver Scout Goal Shoot good turn, which raised over £800 and the fabulous reports of our Cub Packs triumph in the Gang Show.

The Headline news started on a sombre note, explaining the crucifixion followed by the great news of his resurrection. The traditional Carols' we sang told us the story of the Nativity, whilst the Beaver Colonies throughout the District reported stories of the events, which took place during his life e.g. "The Good Samaritan", "The Miracles'", "The Unmerciful Servant" and his childhood. Following each report the Cubs came forward to build the visual setting of the Nativity scene whilst another Cub summarised the report by reading the "meaning" within each story. Both Beavers' and Cubs', read Robert Louis Stevenson's Christmas prayer.

Our thanks go to the Minister Rev. Paul Cleever-Thorpe for his blessings and for allowing us to use the Church and Miriam Nicholson for her musical accompaniment. It was also pleasant to meet with everyone after the event for refreshments in the Church Hall.

Our offertory of £128.49 was donated to the "Great North Air Ambulance Service".

Beavers raise more funds.
The Beaver Scouts of Whitley Bay held a sponsored goal shoot and raised £805 for the “Harry Bucknall Trust Fund”. Harry is a Beaver Scout with the 9th Whitley Bay Scout Group who has Cerebral Palsy and regularly travels to the Peto Clinic in Hungary for conductive therapy.

BEAVERS AT SPLASHARAMA

Beaver and Cub Scouts recently took part in a very successful evening of splashing, swimming and fun at Tynemouth Pool.

Winners of the Beavers Splasharama were 17th Whitley Bay Colony and the 17th and 18th Whitley Bay Cub Packs were joint winners of the Cub Scout Swimarama.

Whitley Bay Beaver Scouts enjoying the Northumberland County Tall Ships Fun Day at McCracken Park, Gosforth.

Beavers Flying High