114th Trentham Scout Group Stoke-on-Trent, Three Towns District, Staffordshire, England.
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What is Beavers ? Beaver Scouting is about having fun, making friends, keeping a promise, sharing, making progress and using a variety of groupings. Beaver Scouting takes place in a Beaver Scout Colony. Our colony name is 1st Trentham Beaver Scouts and we use a "Space" theme for our names. Each Beaver is assigned a lodge which will be either Satellites, Comets, Galaxies or Asteroids. The leaders are called Mars, Earth, Saturn and Venus. A Beaver is aged between 6 and 8 years, after which they transfer to Cubs.		Badges    Where do my Badge Go ? Click the uniform for a quick guide to show the position of the most common Beaver Scout Badges        What Badges can I get ? Click this link to see a list of badges and what to do to get them.

What do we do ?
Below are just a few examples of the activities we have taken part in. Most have links to photo galleries
Hem Heath Woods - April 2012 The 2 Beaver Colonies came together, this time for a trip down to the woods for some fabulous Den Building… Also to officially welcome 2 new leaders to the Trentham Scout Group..  Mars and Neptune were invested. See more photos in the Photo Gallery
Visit to Stone Beavers - March 2012 The Gold Colony Beavers were invited to celebrate St David’s day with the 1st Stone Beavers. They made Leek broaches, Welsh Love Spoons, ate Welsh Cakes and played pin the tongue on the dragon. It was a great night. See more photos in the Photo Gallery
Beaver Bash - March 2012 On a sunny day in March... we had our Pirate themed Beaver Bash. Beavers from the 2 Colonies dressed up as pirates, played pirates games, ate from Captain Blackbeard's table, searched for treasure and earned themselves golden coins It was a brilliant day... so good that we hope to do it all over again soon..  See more photos in the Photo Gallery
Water Safety - March 2012 The Red and Gold Colonies came together to learn about Water Safety. Ladies from the Inland Waterways generously came to talk to the Beavers about being safe when close to canals and rivers. The Beavers also made hats and decorated plates. See more photos in the Photo Gallery
Sewing Project - March 2012 The Beavers worked really hard to make lovely Mothers Day gifts. For some Beavers this was the first time they had done any sewing. Some of the Beavers managed to stuff the hearts too.. Well done Beavers!! See more photos in the Photo Gallery
Pancake Making - February 2012 What fun we had making the batter, watching Leaders cook the batter, then eating pancakes with jam, sugar or bananas?? After all of that we had oatcake tossing races. See more photos in the Photo Gallery
Welcome - Red Colony In January 2012 we opened our second Beaver section - Red Colony Here they all are on their investiture night See more photos in the Photo Gallery
	Christmas 2011 Santa visited us at our Christmas Party See Photo Gallery
	Community Challenge December 2011 The Beavers visited a local Nursing Home See Photo Gallery
	Remembrance November 2011 We made Poppies and attended the Remembrance Parade See Photo Gallery
	First Aid and Healthy Eating The Beavers learnt basic first aid and how to eat healthily See Photo Gallery
Click for Photo Gallery	Group Camp 2011 The Beavers joined the rest of the Group (Cubs and Scouts) for the annual Summer Camp, this year at Kibblestone. (Photo Gallery -  Beavers are mainly on pages 3,4,5)
Click for Photo Gallery	Swedish Mouse Making To celebrate the 2011 World Jamboree in Sweden a number of activities this year were themed on either Jamborees or Sweden, one such activity was "Swedish Mouse Making"
Click for Photos	Bonfire Night Nov 2010 The Beavers invited the Cubs to join them for a Bonfire Night Party. This included making rocket posters, eating hot dogs, apple bobbing and a firework display
Click for Photo Gallery	Visit from Fire Service In October 2010 The Beavers were visited by the local Fire Service to learn all about Fire Safety
Click for Photo Gallery	Sleepover October 2010 Trentham Beavers again joined up with other District groups for a Halloween themed sleepover
	Activities in 2009 During 2009 the Beavers took part in several activities and outings including : Learning about people not as fortunate as themselves and in particular those with disabilities. They had a week discussing the Paralympics and held a variety of sporting activities to be done with a disability, i.e. Skittles Blindfolded, One legged assault course and skipping, Basket ball on knees, One armed Hockey. They looked at some artwork created by "Mouth and Foot painting" artists and were given the task in their Lodges to create a Garden Scene, firstly using the brush in their mouths and then secondly with their feet. They worked well in their Lodges to create some colourful pictures, all of them found the task quite tricky but enjoyed the challenge. Also, Castle and Fort making and a day trip to Camelot Theme Park Photos of these activities are in our Photo Gallery
Click for Photo Gallery	November 2008 - Science Sleepover In November 08 the Three towns District Beavers held their sleepover weekend at Trentham Scout House. This time the theme was 'Science' and over the 24 hours the beavers took part in many interesting and exciting experiments and activities. All of which went towards them achieving their 'Experiment' Badge. In the evening the beavers settled down to watch 'Night at The Museum'. As always the sleepover was a great success and enjoyed by all.
Click for Photo Gallery	Visit to Trentham Church The Beavers visited Trentham Church
Click for Photo Gallery	District Sleepover 2008 This spring the Three Towns District Beaver sleepover was held at Hartshill HQ and nearly 40 of the district's beavers attended a fun-filled weekend. The theme this time was Pirates and was a very popular choice judging by the reaction of the beavers as they arrived! Hartshill Scouts had very kindly made a pirate ship as a centre piece to the hall and the rest of the hall was decorated with other pirate decoration such as flags and skulls and crossbones. We had fun making bandanas, swords, eye patches, flags, sashes, and pirate faces to decorate the pirate ship. The weather wasn't so kind when we took the beavers outside for a treasure hunt around the playing field but that didn't dampen the spirits of the beavers. A magician wowed us all with his clever illusions and many games were played throughout the weekend. As always the cooking team provided some delicious food and all the leaders helped to make it a very special weekend for the Beavers
Click for Photo Gallery	District Camelot Visit 2008  Beavers join the rest of the District for a trip to Camelot Theme Park
Click for Photo Gallery	District Sleepover November 2007 The Three Towns district beaver sleepover this November was held in Trentham Scout House. Beavers from Hartshill, Sea Scouts, Meir Park, Blythe Bridge, Dresden, and of course Trentham all attended. We had a Medieval theme for this sleepover. The Scout house was decorated with rows of bunting and displays of colony flags. The beavers were put into teams for the weekend, all different coloured Knights. They took part in many art/craft activities including making helmets, swords, shields, and badges. We had some visitors join us from Stafford Castle. They gave us a wonderful insight into life during the Medieval times, including showing examples of Costume and Weaponry, that all beavers then got a chance to wear and hold. We even took the opportunity to rein act battles using their swords and shields that were made earlier in the day. With a well planned Medieval Menu everyone was well fed with a delicious selection of food. There was also a Castle making competition in which the teams of knights had to create a castle out of Plastic cups, straws, coloured paper, sticky tape, and glue. They managed to come up with some very interesting designs! At bedtime they all settled down in their sleeping bags in the hall to watch Shrek the Third. As always, a great time was had by all!
Click for Photo Gallery	Gullivers World 2007 The Beavers visited Gulliver's World in August
click for more info & photos	Sleepover May 2007 Our district beaver sleepover this May was held in our very own HQ. Beavers from Hartshill, Normacot, Sea Scouts, Park Hall, Meir Park, Blythe Bridge, Dresden, and of course Trentham all attended what was a fun-packed weekend. The theme for this sleepover was the Jungle. The Scout house was decorated with palm trees, vine, and a selection of Jungle animals! The beavers took part in many art/craft activities including making palm trees, animal tails, salt dough animals, pom pom animals, door hangers, animal masks, slithering snakes and decorating pots. All the games we played incorporated the Jungle theme, as did the delicious menu of food. We even managed to get all the beavers to learn a dance to the ‘Bare Necessities’. At bedtime they all settled down in their sleeping bags in the hall to watch Disney’s ‘Jungle Book’. Everyone who took part had a great time, had lots of crafts to take home, and made so many new friends along the way. Roll on the next sleepover!
	2006 Activities Amongst the many activities the Beavers during 2006 were, a visit to Camelot Theme Park, a Harry Potter themed sleepover and a Christmas Party See photos of these in The Gallery
Please email us if you have any questions : beavers@trenthamscouts.org.uk