2nd Inverness Scout Group

✈️🛩️ This week at Cathedral Beavers we took to the skies as we continued working towards our Air Activities Badge! 🛩️✈️

There was plenty of creativity, teamwork, and a little friendly competition as our Beavers designed and built their own paper aeroplanes before putting them through their paces. Some flew far, some flew fast, and a few had minds of their own! 😄

It's always wonderful to see young people learning new skills, experimenting, and having fun together.
Well done to all our Beavers for their fantastic designs and enthusiasm! 🌟

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🚒🔥 Cathedral Beavers Visit Inverness Fire Station 🔥🚒

What an exciting evening our Cathedral Beavers had visiting the amazing team at Inverness Fire Station! 👨‍🚒👩‍🚒

We learned all about fire safety, discovered what firefighters do to keep our communities safe, and had the opportunity to explore the fire engines up close. 🚒✨

One of the highlights of the evening was seeing the specialist rescue boat based here in Inverness and learning how it is used to help people in emergencies on the water. 🚤🌊

A huge thank you to everyone at Inverness Fire Station for their warm welcome, fascinating demonstrations, and for sharing their knowledge with us. The Beavers had a fantastic time and learned so much! 😊

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Last night the scouts were outdoors learning about the woodlands whilst contributing to the great work of the Aultnaskiach community woodlands.

🎳 What a fantastic evening for Cathedral Beavers at Inverness Lawn Bowls Club! 🎳

Our Beavers had a wonderful time learning new skills, practising their aim, and discovering that lawn bowls is much harder than it looks! 😊

A huge thank you to everyone at the club for their warm welcome, expert tuition, patience, and encouragement throughout the evening. The sweets were also a big hit and may just have helped us perfect our bowling techniques! 🍬🎯

It was great to try something new, build confidence, and have lots of fun together. Thank you for helping us make such happy memories. 💙

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With some inspiration from the 1999 World Jamboree in Chile, tonight the scouts learnt about Chilean culture, water scarcity in the Atacama and what makes buildings resilient during an earthquake

🥾🌳 What an adventure! 🌳🥾

This evening, Cathedral Beavers enjoyed a fantastic hike around the beautiful Ness Islands in Inverness, exploring our local area and discovering some of the wonderful wildlife, woodland paths and scenery right on our doorstep. 🌿🐦🌊

Our Beavers walked an impressive 1.66 miles, showing great teamwork, enthusiasm and determination every step of the way! 💙👏

It’s amazing what you can find when you take the time to explore your own community. Well done, Beavers! 🎉🦫

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🦫💜🎉 40 Years of Beaver Scouts… and we’re celebrating by giving back! 🎉💜🦫

This year marks a very special Triple Birthday Year in Scouting:
🐿️ 5 Years of Squirrels
🦫 40 Years of Beavers
🐺 110 Years of Cubs

To celebrate, Inverness Cathedral Beavers are taking on a “40 for 40 Challenge” — collecting 40 essential items to support the amazing work of inSpire at Inverness Cathedral ❤️

We’re gathering donations for:
🥫 Food Bank
🧴 Toiletries & Baby Bank
👕 School Uniform Bank
🧥 Winter Jacket Bank

From tinned soup and pasta to nappies, school shoes, jackets and toiletries — every single donation will help local families and individuals across the Highlands 💚

📍 Donations can be dropped off at:
⛪ Inverness Cathedral
📍 Kenneth Street Hall, Church House, 9–11 Kenneth Street, Inverness

💚 Please ensure any pre-loved clothing donations are clean, freshly washed, and in good condition.

This is such a wonderful way for our Beavers to mark 40 years of adventure, friendship, kindness and community spirit 🦫✨

All are welcome to join in and support the challenge! 💛

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Cathedral Beavers: What a fantastic evening for Cathedral Beavers! 🦫✨

Tonight we celebrated welcoming 2 new Beavers with their investiture 🎉👏 — a very special moment in their Scouting journey! We also spent time writing thank you cards for everyone who helped make our recent Beaver Camp such a success 💌⛺

The evening was rounded off with team games, lots of laughter, and of course some classic campfire singing around the hall 🔥🎶

Well done Beavers — and thank you to all our wonderful leaders, helpers and families who make these adventures possible! 💙

🏃‍♂️🗺️ What a fantastic day of adventure and exploration for the 2nd Kingsmills patrols as they took on the District Monopoly Run around Inverness! From bagging Monopoly squares to navigating the city streets, there was plenty of teamwork, energy and fun along the way. 🎲👏

A brilliant achievement too, with both teams finishing in the top 10 out of 26 teams! 🏅💪

Well done to everyone who took part and represented the group so brilliantly.

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🏕️🔥 What a fantastic weekend for our inaugural Cathedral Beaver Camp!

There was laughter, adventure, exploring, games, campfire fun, cooking, friendship and so many wonderful memories made together. Our Beavers embraced every moment with enthusiasm, courage and joy — and it was wonderful to see them growing in confidence and community throughout the camp. 🦫✨

A huge thank you to all of our incredible leaders and volunteers who gave their time, energy and care to make this camp possible. Without your dedication, encouragement and endless patience, camps like this simply could not happen. 💛👏

We are so proud of our Cathedral Beavers and all they achieved on their very first camp adventure. Here’s to many more camps, memories and adventures ahead! 🌟⛺🔥

📷 plenty of photos of the camp, shared with permission.

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