Beaver Scouts Meet New People

Beaver Scouts have ever widening horizons and they enjoy finding out about people in their community – What they do and how they live.

Meeting new people can have a variety of purposes:

• To awaken interests in other people’s hobbies, interests and jobs;


• To encourage support for groups in the community;


• To show that the colony itself is an important part of the community.

Over a period of time, a good Colony will provide Beaver Scouts with the opportunity to:

• Meet people from their community, or further afield, who can share something about their job, hobby or interest;

• Visit places of interest and where people work, to meet the people who can give them information;


• Hear from people who have interesting life stories or tales to tell.

Ideas that can be used in the meeting

1. Visit the police or fire station


2. Visit the Mayor’s parlour


3. Visit the local football ground and meet the players


4. Have a visit from the dentist


5. Have a visit from a local celebrity


6. Visit the health centre and Dentist


7. Have the vicar, priest or minister visit


8. Visit the RSPCA rescue centre


9. Have a representative in from a local or national charity


10. Visit the local newspaper


11. Have an older member of the community to visit to talk about life in the place in the past


12. Visit the library


13. To talk to somebody from another faith