28th Cambridge Cub Scouts

• Diary
• Investiture
• Parental Help
• How to find us
• How we're funded
• Parent Information
• Badges
• Woggles
• Knots
• Leaders
• Camping
• Chariots
• Family Camp
• Typical kit list
• Camp Blankets
• Scouting Centenary

Welcome to the 28th Cambridge Cub Pack pages

We provide an active balanced programme of indoor and outdoor activities for young people (boys and girls) between the ages of 8 and 10½ on Tuesday evenings during term time between 6:10pm and 7:30pm from our hut at the end of Flamsteed Road.

Young people typically join us for a few weeks while they decide whether they want to be invested as a Cub. If a boy or girl would like to join us, please contact to add your name to the waiting list. If your child has been for a few weeks and has decided they would like to be invested then there is a leaflet available here as a Word document, or online here. Once invested, they will need a woggle (provided by Akela), a neckerchief (ours is green and black) and a cub shirt from the scout shop on Perne Road; your cub may need this page to help sew on all their new badges.

What we enjoy doing

In a typical evening the pack would start with Grand Howl, we would enjoy a game or two, have some fun towards an activity badge and learn some background scout type skills like working with maps, tying new knots to help make things or rudimentary first aid.

Camps and activities

We usually organise a couple of camps each year, with the main one typically happening during the start of the summer holidays. The 2007 Summer Camp's theme was Ancient Britons (click for more info). Other camps we have been on include backwoods cooking at Abingdon Campsite and Cherry Jam for the scouting centenary. At camp we do adventurous outdoor stuff like kayaking, chariot building and racing, abseiling and zip-wires and quieter stuff like sitting round the camp fire after dark in a camp blanket (just a wool blanket, but often embellished with patches or clever designs).

Can you help

With a very full cub pack we need some help in overseeing the activities. Some of our leaders are only able to attend for part of the term. Extra help from parents, carers or anyone interested in becoming a leader enables us to do more focused small groups, and gives an opportunity to see the reality of a cub evening. Please email or sign up in the hall if you can help.

Please can you sign up to attend as a parent helper for at least one session each term. The chart of dates is on the board in the entrance hall of the scout hut.

Fundraising online

Please support us by making your online purchasing via our fundraising link below. The sites you buy from give our group a small percentage (typically 5% but it can be up to 15%) 'finders fee' but the price you pay is exactly the same:

www.easyfundraising.org.uk/28thcsg