About Our Group

In the late summer of 1993, a meeting of parents agreed to form a new Scout Group under the Baden-Powell Scouts Association to provide traditional Scouting for their children.

Subsequent meetings agreed the name of the group as “Blackwater Valley B-P Scout Group” and the ‘three counties’ badge design was devised representing the three counties of Surrey, Hampshire and Berkshire and including the ‘Coot’ emblem of the Blackwater valley with kind permission from the local council environmental initiative team.

We have camped where Baden-Powell convened the very first experimental camp in 1907 and belong to a wholly volunteer association that includes some of the oldest Scout Groups in the world. 1st Mortimer B-P Scout Group started in 1910!

We meet at the Scout Hut at the far end of Carrington Lane Recreation Ground in Ash (behind Holly Lodge School) and cater for boys and girls aged between 5 years and 18 years.

On the 1st of January 2021, we decided to leave the BPSA after over 25 years and establish ourselves as an Independent Traditional Scout Group registered with the Charity Commission as an Incorporated Organisation with Charity Number 1193176.