Luton Scouts

Welcome to the web site of Luton Scouts.

Scouting in Luton is provided by over 20 Groups.  These Groups are organised into three Districts broadly covering the North, East and South/West parts of the town. (see the directory page for a complete list and the areas covered).   Luton Scouting also covers the villages of Caddington and Slip End.   Within these Groups there are over 2000 boys, girls and adults enjoying an active programme of camping, activities, badge work.  If you would like to be part of this success story, this site will enable you to make contact with the Group nearest to you from a map of the town.  To join us, just complete this form and we will get in touch with you.

We hope that you enjoy browsing this site and will find something useful here.

Lastest Scouting News from Luton

Visit our news page to find out about some of the recent events that Luton Scouts have been involved in.  2007 was the Centenary year since the first experimental Scout camp held on Brownsea Island and the 21st Word Scout Jamboree is taking part at Hylands Park near Chelmsford in Essex.  2008 promises to be another exciting year for Luton Scouts.

Luton Scouts provided hospitality to Jamboree participants from Argentina, Italy and Chile.  Callum, an Explorer Scout from Luton attended the Jamboree as part of the Bedfordshire group.  Click here for more details of local events or visit the World Scout Jamboree website.

October 2007 saw the 50th anniversary of Jamboree on the Air which enables Scouts to meet each other using amateur radio links.  The station GB50IDS was active over the weekend of 19th-21st October.  We have a full report of the weekend here.

Luton Scouts have partnered with the owners of The Mall shopping centre to support their charity of the year - NOAH Enterprise, a local charity who provide invaluable support in the shape of food, clothing, medical care, counselling, training and access to employment opportunities to the area’s homeless and most disadvantage individuals. 

They held a giant sponsored sleep-over in the Arndale Centre in December 2007 which raised over £2300 to support NOAH's excellent work and fits well with scouting traditions of camping and helping other people.  Read the full story here.

Scouting Profile

Scouting is a youth organisation which aims to provide young boys and girls (not all of the groups admit girls - see the directory entries) with the skills to develop into good citizens of the future.  The activities provided by Scouting nurture the physical, intellectual, social and spiritual potentials of the young people.

All of the Groups are members the Scout Association

Site Profile

This site has been written with two purposes in mind.  Firstly it provides a means of communicating news about local Scouting and secondly it is intended to help you find a Scout Group near to you.  It also provides background information concerning the organisation of Scouting in the town.   It is not intended to be an introduction to Scouting itself (see the links page for other sites).  Local business men and women will be interested to read the article: "Scouting - Your future workforce" -  benefits to employers .

Accessibility

The colour scheme and format of our web site has been kept deliberately plain to help any one with visual impairment access the information.  If you have any difficulties using the site or other comments to make it easier for other people to use then please contact our webmaster.

Privacy

We respect the privacy of all visitors to the website and do not make use of cookies or track visitors by any means.  If you contact us by email, we will only use your email address to respond to your enquiry.  You can view our complete privacy policy here.

Contact us by electronic mail :

General Information: luton @dircon. co.uk

Webmaster: brendan.owen @ntlworld. com

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This page has been visited times since 1st October 1998

Site last updated: 08/01/08

Webmaster: Brendan Owen