100 Years of 1st Bury St Edmunds (Mayors Own) Scout Group

Our Scout Group has just celebrated it's 100th birthday on 5 February 2008. To celebrate this historic event we have put together the following products

• A photo CD of all the photos we have gathered together dating from 1908 - 2008. Only £3
• Gangshow DVD disc 1 (Gee It's Great to be Young, 1980 - Over the Skyline, 1982 - Out and About and 1983 - Celebration) Only £4
• Gangshow DVD disc 2 (1985 - Holiday Time, 1988 - Up, Up and Away, 1990 - Adventures of David) Only £4

If you would like to order a copy please contact us using the Enquires form.

Christmas Puddings!

Yes it's that time of year again!

This Christmas we are raising funds for building repairs and modernization.

We would like you to contribute to this fund but you’re in luck.  We’ve got something a lot tastier than a raffle ticket.  We’ve got The Ultimate Plum Pudding  - one of the finest Christmas puddings you can buy.  It has been endorsed by the BBC Good Food Magazine and by Chef magazine as being as good as the best home made and in 2003 it won a food ‘Oscar’ – a gold award at the Great Taste Awards, an international competition organised by the Guild of Fine Food Retailers. It is used by top chefs and sold as prestigious private labels throughout the country. 

The pudding is made by a small craft manufacturer in Cumbria and it’s absolutely gorgeous. The recipe is a family one but it’s from a family of really good cooks, 3 of them had restaurants in the Good Food Guide.  All the vine fruits are soaked overnight in lots of brandy and dry sherry.  Fresh breadcrumbs and freshly grated carrot help give the pudding a lighter texture. Ingredients are top quality and much more varied than usual – almonds, walnuts, stem ginger, apricots, cherries as well as the best, juicily alcoholic, raisins and sultanas.  We asked why there are no currants and were told – none of us like currants! It’s not steamed until it’s black, caramelised and bitter – it’s light, sweet and aromatic and you can taste every ingredient. Most people have no idea that Christmas pudding can be this good and lots of people enjoy it who ‘don’t like Christmas pudding’.

The Ultimate Plum Pudding is not available in supermarkets (the company is too small for that) but it is available through us. We have had the pudding attractively labelled especially for us. Our label incorporates the winning entry from our ‘Christmas Pudding Label Competition’ held earlier this year and states that the sale of the pudding supports our Scout Group.  Your child’s entry could be the winning label!  Each order for a 1lb pudding (serves 4) costs £5.50 and raises at least £2.00 for us.  (We get bigger discounts the more you order). Pudding prices are comparable with the very best puddings available from retail shops. Our ordering direct from the manufacturer allows there to be a good profit for us within a competitive retail price.

It’s a really great pudding – a true highlight for the meal of the year.  We’re proud to offer it and know that you’ll love it.  Your family and friends will love it (including the vegetarians).  It’s so easy to order from us AND it raises money for Our Scout Group. It has to be worthwhile.

Fill in the order form and send it back now.  Last date for orders is 19th November 2007, but please place your orders as early as possible. Dowload an order form here.

   Quiz Night

Our quiz night was a big success on the 9th July. The evening raised nearly £50 for the Scout Group. The winning team was the 'UPS Babes' with a score of 45 1/2!

Our thanks go to Mark Bradley for organising the evening and all the people who attended and made the evening so enjoyable!

We are hoping that Mark will organise another Quiz Night for us in October.

11 July 2007

 UPS Foundation Gives Scout Group $26,959 Grant

The UPS Foundation has awarded the Scout Group a $26,959 grant to provide new toilet facilities and disabled access to the Scout Hut.

27 June 2007

Help Raise Funds Shopping!

There’s now a new and easy way for you to help us raise funds for  - simply by shopping online! 

easyfundraising is a shopping directory that features some of your favourite online stores, including Amazon, NEXT, Debenhams, John Lewis, Toys’R’Us, HMV and over 400 others. All you have to do is use the links on the easyfundraising site whenever you shop online and, at no extra cost to you, we'll receive a free donation of up to 15% from every purchase you make. It really is that simple!

It’s completely FREE to register and use and you still shop with each retailer in exactly the same way. Many retailers even offer additional discounts and money saving e-Vouchers when you shop using easyfundraising.

If you shop online anyway then why not raise valuable extra funds for us by using this fantastic scheme.  All you need to do is visit www.easyfundraising.org.uk/1stburystedmundsscouts and when you register, select  1st Bury St Edmunds (Mayors Own) as the organisation you wish to support.