Fourth Oxford Scouts

28/04/2025

Please join Fourth Oxford Scouts for a social event for friends, family and neighbours of our community.

Fourth Oxford céilidh with local band Mouse & Trousers
Saturday 17 May from 6-9pm, Oxford Rugby Club, North Hinksey Lane

Live music, dancing and bar. Families of all ages welcome.

Tickets available here now: fourth-oxford-ceilidh.eventbrite.co.uk

Please feel free to share this invitation with friends and neighbours in the local community.

Proceeds going to Fourth Oxford to cover future equipment and supplies, and to continue to subsidise our activities, so they are accessible to all.
Fourth Oxford Scout Group is a registered charity, No. 267799

15/03/2025

This year our popular Oxford Greenbelt 10k Run adds a 3km run for 12 yrs and above, and a 1km run for all ages. Please pass this on and come and join us for the event - there will be a pop-up cafe and more. Its on Saturday 21st June with the first race at 11 am, Brookes Sport at Harcourt Hill.

04/08/2024

4th Oxford Scouts are back from a week camping in North Wales. We've slept in tents, roasted marshmallows on fires, walked to the top of Snowdon/Yr Wyddfa, explored underground caves, been rock climbing, paddled rafts across a lake, visited Chester zoo, hunted treasure in Conwy with fish and chips on the quaside, seen Aber Falls, and too much more to mention... big thanks to the volunteers who made this happen, and to all the young people who make it such fun.

10/05/2024

Our Scouts built bird boxes this winter, and these amazing photos from the Moran family show the Great Tit chicks that have hatched in the one they put up in their garden 😀

25/04/2024

Our Scouts were camping last weekend, sleeping outdoors, cooking their own food and chatting around a log fire. They also built this wooden bridge, and tried climbing and abseiling.

Some of our leaders are qualified to lead adventurous activities such as the climbing last weekend, kayaking, rafting and hill walking - we have an exciting summer planned with all these activities.

Our other sections have also been camping: Beavers had an undersea camp, some of the Cubs camped in March, our leaders ran Bronze and Silver Duke of Edinburgh Award expeditions for the Explorers over the Easter holidays.

We have more camps planned too, with the whole group at Youlbury in May (with 800 other scouts), all the Cubs for a whole weekend in July, and week-long summer camps planned for N Wales (Scouts) and the Isle of Wight (Explorers).

06/04/2023

We have restarted the popular Oxford Greenbelt 10k Run, with help this year from the Oxfordshire Jamboree Unit (Scouts going to Korea for the World Jamboree this summer). Please take part, pass this on, and come and join us for the event - there will be a pop up cafe and more. Its on Saturday 24th June, 11 am, Brookes Sport at Harcourt Hill.

19/03/2023

Our older Cubs were camping this weekend - lots of fun with friends, fire lighting and campfire cooking, pitching tents and shelter building, learning first aid and practicing leadership skills, plus a hike on the Saturday.

28/02/2023

Lots of pancake cooking every night last week… the Cubs made stoves out of tin cans for mini-pancakes cooked on the flat top surface (heated by a tea light inside), Beavers had help cooking on Trangia backpacking stoves, and the Scouts did it all themselves outdoors on the Trangias (plus lots of hot chocolate to keep warm!).

22/02/2023

Two teams of our Scouts entered the Oxford Spires Scout District Cooking Competition over half term, they had to cook a three-course meal from ingredients revealed at the start of the Sunday afternoon session. Our teams shared 1st place for teamwork, 1st place for the main course (spiced breaded chicken with rice, mushrooms and peppers), and 3rd place overall. Well done Scouts!

18/02/2023

Good Luck today! Some of the 4th Oxford's Scouts are doing their final performances in the Gang Show today, they have been on stage all week, a busy half term, and doing rehearsals since September. Well done everyone it was great to watch it on Thursday.

Scouts and Girl Guides from across Oxfordshire came together to perform in the Gang Show's platinum anniversary.

08/02/2023

Last week small groups of our Cubs on Monday and Wednesday completed several Lego challenges: building a bridge (see the pics), building and racing a car, building a Lego zipline (from the ceiling to the leg of a chair), and a speed build challenge working in pairs with the builder wearing a blindfold and receiving instructions from another Cub. Lots of fun was had by the Cubs, leaders and other helpers!

08/02/2023

Here are some pictures from our 2022 Christmas Camp, for Beavers, Cubs and Scouts. There were lots of activities, including caving, rock climbing, den building, archery, geocaching, pizzas cooked in cardboard ovens outdoors above a fire, challenges such as making human pyramids, Christmas crafts and making LED Christmas cards...