Fundraising

Brickfield’s Big Build

We are currently fundraising to replace our old wooden Scout hut with a new Community Activity Centre and HQ. To read more about our vision and progress, please click here, or to donate to our Wonderful fundraising page (which is specifically for the Big Build project), please click the button below.

Current Fundraisers

Information about our forthcoming fundraising events can be found on our Group Facebook Page (www.Facebook.com/1stCFScoutGroup). Here is a selection of our current fundraisers:

Challenge 2025!

This year we are challenging our Scouts, families and our local community to see if they can complete Challenge 2025 and raise £2025 for charity in 2025. We would absolutely love for you to join us with this challenge, and would be especially grateful if you pick our Brickfields Big Build project as your charity of choice!

Ideas for ways to fundraise include holding a regular bake sale or coffee morning, making crafts to sell, having a stall at a car boot sale, running a fundraising event like a quiz night, bingo or race night, completing a sponsored event.

If you are fundraising for our Big Build project you are very welcome to use Wonderful to collect donations, or we are registered with most other giving sites. If you would like to chat about ideas or would like to borrow our Scout hut to host a fundraiser please get in contact!

ScoutMade

ScoutMade is our e-shop and sells products which have been designed by members of our Scout group and our Group clothing. Items range from fire starter kits to dog leads and would make fantastic gifts for that special someone! ScoutMade is a not-for-profit shop, with 100% of all proceeds going to our Brickfields Big Build project. To visit the ScoutMade shop please click on the banner below,

Sweet Cones 

We have been making and selling vegetarian/ gluten free sweet cones that are ideal for children’s parties, wedding favours or as stocking fillers. Our sweet cones are £1.50/ cone. If you would like to purchase any please email GSL@1stchandlersfordscouts.co.uk or visit our ScoutMade shop (see above).  

Badge Sewing Service

Our GSL will happily sew badges on to uniforms or camp blankets in exchange for a suggested donation of 50p-£1/ badge. All donations are being put towards our Brickfield’s Big Build Project. Please email GSL@1stchandlersfordscouts.co.uk if you would like to use her expert sewing service!

Previous Fundraisers

Scout Post 2024

2024 was our second year running Scout Post. For just 35p/ item the Scouts delivered over 800 Christmas Cards to households in the SO53 area in time for Christmas, raising a fantastic £370.

A massive thank you to the local community centres, churches and businesses who kindly hosted a Scout Postbox for us. Scout Post will be back again next year!

• The Spinney 53
• Thornden Hall
• The Co-op -Winchester Road
• Josies -Chandlers Ford
• Twelve Hair Design -Osbourne Drive
• Brendon Care -Otterbourne Hill
• Brendon Care -Knightwood
• The Hilt
• The Velmore Centre
• Chandlers Ford Methodist Church
• St Edwards Catholic Church
• St Francis Church
• Valley Lodge Residential Care Home
• The Scout Hut- Brickfield Lane

If you are interested in how our Scout Post works simply scan the QR code for more information!

The Three Peaks Challenge 2024

Back in early May 2024 a small team from the group attempted the classic 3 Peaks Challenge- Ben Nevis, Scafell Pike and Yr Wyddfa (Snowdon) in 3 days. We had 2 Scouts aged 11 and 13 and an Explorer aged 14 along with appropriate parents/ leaders. We started with Ben Nevis which was an epic 9 hour climb before heading through torrential rain to Scafell Pike which was gloriously sunny. Unfortunately Jen slipped at the end of the descent of Scafell and fractured her wrist meaning some of the team sadly had to abandon the challenge after two peaks. Happily the remainder of the team continued and successfully completed Yr Wyddfa! What an amazing achievement!

Scout Enterprise Challenge 2023

Last Christmas we challenged both Monday and Wednesday Scout troops to the Enterprise Challenge. We gave every Scout who wanted to participate £5 and 4 weeks to invest it with a special trophy for the scout who raised the most. The Scouts had some amazing and creative ideas, from bake sales, to film afternoons, from sponsored events to the eventual winner- selling Christmas crafts (which is where the idea of ScoutMade came from!). The Troops did brilliantly and raised over £1500!

The Great Woggle JOGLE 2023

This one was truly epic! On the 9th July 2023 a Cub (9 years old), a Scout/ Guide (11 years old), an Explorer (14 years old), a Leader and a GSL set off to walking and cycling the 1650 km from John O’Groats to Lands End – an adventure we named ‘The Great Woggle JOGLE’. It took us 57 days with just 3 rest days in the entire journey. Along the way we met, traveled with and were hosted by different people all conned by Scouting and Guiding all of whom were massively generous and made this an unforgettable adventure for the team.

This was a joint fundraiser for BBC Children in Need and for #BrickfieldsBigBuild where we raised almost £10,000 for two great causes!

Find out more and read our daily blog on our special event website www.wogglejogle.co.uk

We would just like to thank all of our supporters and sponsors for making this one happen- without their generosity it could not have been such a success

King Alfreds Way 2022

Seawolf, his brother and a friend all took on King Alfreds way on a self-supported off road ride covering the 350km loop in just 4 days! It was an epic and unforgettable ride which really demonstrated the termination of the groups fundraising ambitions!

Blenheim Triathalon 2022

Shere Khan took on the full Blenheim triathlon including the gruelling open water swim raising almost £500 for #BrickfieldsBigBuild

Previous Events

We have been lucky enough to have been invited to lots of events and celebrations to support with marshalling, car parking, providing food stalls and delivering exciting activities. Here are just a few of the events we’ve been to in recent years-

-Fryern Fantasia

-Scantabout Summer Fayre

-Merdon Summer Fair

-The Kings Coronation event- Valley Park

-The Romsey Relay Marathon

-Southampton Marathon

-The Romsey Show

-The Wessex Cyclocross League

So if you have an event and would like us to bring a food stall, craft stall, activities or to help with marshalling, car-parking, littler picking or anything else please get in touch and we will be happy to support in return for help with our fundraising- gsl@1stchandlersfordscouts.uk.uk

All donations gratefully accepted

Want to suggest an idea or offer a donation?

Like all Scout Groups, we are a registered charity, and are always looking to find ways to ensure we can raise funds to provide excellent opportunities to all our Scouting Family.

Do you have an idea for a fundraising event that you think could help us? This could be something we run at our hut, an event we attend, or even perhaps you want to do something yourself and get sponsored to raise money for us. Perhaps you have items that you could donate for use in raffles or similar, or maybe your company could help in other ways. No matter what, we’d love to hear from you and how you think you may be able to help.