Saturday, 21 January 2017

Christmas post: Help us reunite these undelivered cards with their senders

Can you help us reunite these cards with their senders? We think most of these were never intended for delivery in the Scout Christmas post and we'd like to return them to the people who posted them.

Where we were unable to find the house even though it looks as though it is in Kidlington or Bletchingdon, we have tried our best to locate the recipients by searching on the electoral register.

If you recognise any of these, please get in touch with us by email (kidlingtonscoutgroup@gmail.com) or through the Friends of the 33rd Facebook page


Wednesday, 11 January 2017

A fantastic run of fundraising!

January's ScoutRail model rail show at Exeter Hall in Kidlington

It's mid January, and that means Kidlington Scout Group's bumper fundraising season is finished for another year. And what a successful few weeks it was!

December's Christmas Post saw our Scouts deliver thousands of Christmas cards in Kidlington and Bletchingdon. Our one day bag-packing at Sainsbury's just before Christmas was really well supported by members of the group and shoppers. Our final major annual fundraiser, the ScoutRail model railway show at Exeter Hall, saw around a thousand visitors enjoying the models, the stalls and the wonderful cafe.

All of us at the Scout Group are extremely grateful to everyone who has supported these events. THANK YOU! It costs a lot of money to maintain our headquarters in Kidlington and our boat base in Wolvercote, and fundraising events help keep subs affordable for our members.

Holding three major fundraising events close together means that we start 2017 able to plan our building improvements for the whole year. Our next planned major improvement is to refurbish the toilets at the Scout centre.


Our members taking control of the model railways