History of Bromsgrove District:
Scout Groups, Units and Fellowships


Name

Date Started

Closed

1st Barnt Green Scout Group 1/4/30 OPEN
1st Bromsgrove Scout Group  (Charford) Prior to 1919*
(wolf) cubs started 5/5/25
OPEN
1st Dodford 10/6/26 1927
2/1/1930 1962
1st Droitwich Scout Group 28/3/33 OPEN
1st Frankley Scout Group (Holly Hill) Unknown Unknown
1st Lickey Scout Group 1911 OPEN
1st Stoke Prior Scout Group (Previously known as 6th Bromsgrove (Stoke Prior) and 7th Bromsgrove (Stoke Prior)) 11/1/45 Closed at some point
23/4/59 1961
28/4/67 2002
1st Wychbold 11/2/37 Unknown
2nd Bromsgrove Scout Group
(Bromsgrove School)
4/6/25 Sometime after 1973
2nd Bromsgrove Scout group (Forelands) - for the Forelands Home for Cripple Children 16/9/21 Sometime after 1928
2nd Droitwich Scout Group (Boycott (now Westlands) Estate) 2/10/79 1989
3rd Bromsgrove Scout Group  (Evergreens) Registered with HQ 27/10/30 but known to exist from 1925 OPEN
3rd Droitwich Scout Group  (St. Peter's) 30/10/79 OPEN
4th Bromsgrove Scout Group  (Blackwell) 19/5/31 OPEN
5th Bromsgrove (Hillside) - Blackwell - Uplands Children's home 29/8/38 Unknown
5th Bromsgrove (St. George's) - Met at St. George's hall, Sidemoor 15/10/43

31/3/64

6th Bromsgrove Scout Group  (Catshill), previously known as Catshill (Christ Church) 1924 - 1930 and 1st Catshill (1930 - 1938) 15/3/24 1938
re-opened 15/3/57 OPEN
7th Bromsgrove Scout Group  (Finstall), previously known as 1st Finstall Park Troop and 1st Finstall Troop 22/3/21 1950
re-opened 1/8/62 1969
re-opened 1/3/77 OPEN
8th Bromsgrove (Unknown location) 16/1/69 1974
Belbroughton, Clent & Fairfield Scout Group, previously known as 13th Stourbridge (Fairfield) and 1st Fairfield 31/3/58

Unknown

Bonington Explorer Scout Unit

2003

OPEN
Bromsgrove District Scout Fellowship Unknown OPEN
Bromsgrove IBEX Scout Fellowship 2002 OPEN
Bromsgrove Scout Network

2008 (although Redditch & Bromsgrove network existed from 2001)

OPEN
Bromsgrove Venture Scout Unit 15/9/67 Merged into 4th Bromsgrove 26/2/93
Hagley Ramblers Scout Group Registered with HQ 3/8/27 but believed to have existed from 1912 Closed at some point
re-opened 29/6/61 OPEN
Hillman Venture Scout Unit

1/10/96 (but was part of 1st Lickey before hand)

2001
Ombersley Scout Group 29/9/23

Before 1928

5/9/29 1932
1/10/96 Unknown
Ravenna De Wyche Venture Scout Unit (Droitwich) Unknown

Unknown

Scott Explorer Scout Unit 2008 OPEN
Shackleton Explorer Scout Unit 2007 OPEN
Tardebigge Scout Group (Previously known as 1st Tardebigge Scouts) 4/2/35 Closed at some point
14/6/76 1989
1/9/94 1998
 
* The Scout Association national HQ does not hold any details of groups before 1919 (due in part to records being destroyed during the first world war)
If you have information which could update this page, please contact Peter Dodman (Assistant District Commissioner).

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