Beaver Scouts
Beaver Scouts are young boys and girls usually aged between six and eight years old. They belong to the first and youngest Section in the Scouting family. Young people can join Beaver Scouts in the three months leading up to their sixth birthday. They can move to the next Section, Cub Scouts, between seven years and six months and eight years six months.
Easily recognised by their distinctive turquoise sweatshirts, Beaver Scouts enjoy making friends, playing games, going on visits and helping others. They usually meet together once a week in a Beaver Scout Colony.
Some Beaver Scout Colonies also organise Sleepovers. These are often the first time a young person spends a night away from home. They take place in suitable buildings, often Scout centres.
The Beaver Scout Promise is:
I promise to do my best
To be kind and helpful
And to love God.
The Beaver Scout Motto is:
Be Prepared
Beavers Bowley Sleepover 2025
The Bowley Scout Campsite was the venue for this year’s Beaver Scout Sleepover. Due to limited resources, it was decided to limit the Beavers to one night each Colony, so it was with that the Grey Colony Beavers slept over on the Friday evening and the Purple Colony...
Grey Colony Fire Station Visit 2025
Grey Colony Beavers had a fabulous time at Rawtenstall Fire Station. They had a tour of the Fire Engine, and all the equipment was explained to them. They then had an opportunity to sit in the Fire Engine, before the highlight of the evening, a chance to use the Fire...
Easter Egg Chocolate Roll 2025
A week of intense competition came to an end with 8 lucky winners in our 2025 Easter Egg Chocolate Roll fundraiser. Squirrels, Beavers, Cubs and Scouts took it in turn to roll or slide their 10 pence pieces towards the chocolate egg, the eventual winner being...
Grey Colony Bowling 2025
Monday evenings in April 2025 were not good for holding meetings with three of the four weeks taken up with Easter Holidays. To make up for the lack of meeting nights, Grey Colony Beavers were treated to a subsided 10-pin Bowling session at MFA Bowl in Burnley....
Rossendale District Akeema Shield 2025
For the third consecutive year Purple Colony Beavers won the Rossendale District Akeema Shield Competition. Competing against seven other teams including our own Grey Colony Beavers who were runners-up, everyone worked hard at the challenges presented to them.They...
Bowley Christmas Experience 2024
The Squirrels and the Beavers visited the fabulous Christmas Experience at the Bowley Scout Campsite. There first stop was the Polar Express before moving on to the North Pole to have a snowball fight with Olaf. The meaning of Christmas was explained by the making of...
Guys Farm Beavers & Purple Pack Camp 2024
A weekend of adventure was in store for Grey and Purple Colony Beavers and Purple Pack Cubs who visited the Guides Guys Farm Activity Centre near Lancaster. This was a last-minute change of venue as the planned campsite was closed for maintenance. Grey Colony Beavers...
Beavers Blackpool Day Trip 2024
Following an incident with the Wheel of Death in the Circus performance at the Beavers 40th Anniversary Sleepover in April when one of the performers fell off the apparatus, we were kindly invited back to the Blackpool Tower to see the Circus show again. Combined with...
Purple Colony Fire Station Visit 2024
With thanks to the Team at Rawtenstall Fire Station for the Purple Colony Beavers tour of their facilities. The Firemen were impressed on what they had learnt about Fire Safety in year-2 at School and what they had remembered when questioned. The Beavers enjoyed their...
Beavers 40th Anniversary Blackpool Tower Sleepover
In May 1984, the 38th Rossendale Scout Group formed a Beaver Colony as a pilot for the Scout Association for a new 6 to 8-year-old age range. Beavers became official for the rest of the nation two years later. Beavers is of course now very popular and at the time of...