All three sections are now meeting face to face, watch out for emails from your section leader.

All sections are now running online meetings, watch for emails from your leaders about dates and times.

Due to the developing situation with the coronavirus COVID-19, all face to face scouting in the UK has stopped. There will be no meetings until further notice.

In 1919 two friends from Broughton Place Church, William Smart Melville of Wellington Street and J Dryburgh of Willowbrae Road registered the existence of a new scout group in the county of Edinburgh & Leith, Northern District. Scout HQ in London allocated the new troop the snappy title ’11th Edinburgh and Leith Northern District (Broughton Place Church) Scout Group’. 
Wind forward through 100 years with various scouting reorganisations changing the group name from 11th Waverley to 11th Leith, a flit down the street to Broughton St. Mary’s Church on Bellevue Crescent and an amalgamation with the 74th Logie Green Scouts and we arrive at the group we have today – 11th Edinburgh North East (Broughton St. Mary’s) Scout Group. 
Back in 1919 the group comprised two adult leaders and twenty-two boys. Today, the nine adult & nine young leaders and fifty young people (boys & girls) are looking forward to their centenary year with a commemorative plaque presentation and photo display in the church, two celebration camps, a ceilidh and a fun day/BBQ. Group members have designed a centenary badge and rumour has it a local brewer has offered to create a centenary ale (adult scouts only). The ceilidh will be hosted in The Royal Scots Club, Abercromby Place which played host to the 75th anniversary event in 1994. 
If you have a story to tell about your experience of being a Beaver, Cub or Scout in Broughton, then please drop the group an e-mail on 11thenescouts@gmail.com. 

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AGM Wed 25th November, 6.30pm St. Mary’s Primary School, East London Street.

You are warmly invited to the Scout Group AGM. Everyone is welcome, including very small people.

The Group is going through a lot of positive change at the moment with growing numbers of youngsters and the possible creation of our own Explorer Unit for our older teenagers, for the first time. A successful group relies on happy young people, committed leaders and supportive parents. Here is your chance to hear what we’re up to, and don’t worry, we won’t try to persuade you to pull on a brown shirt and neckie. You may find however that you have a skill that we could employ in our programme as a one-off event, or you can led a hand to keep the group functioning smoothly in the background. Parents do help all the time with transport to camps, attending those camps to support the leaders and running the Group Executive; thank you. 

Hi folks,

We’re making much more use of Social Media and the local press to advertise our activities and celebrate our success as a Group. We’ve formulated this image and media policy so that we take reasonable steps to keep our young people safe. You’ll shortly be asked to indicate your preference on photo images by way of a form. Please complete and return it to any Beaver, Cub or Scout Leader for recording.

Photo Image & Social Media Policy v1.0

Best wishes

Scott Richards, Scout Leader

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