trinity
scouts
OUR GROUP
​Who We Are
We are a large scout group that meets in Plumstead, in the Royal London borough of Greenwich.
We are nealy up to 100 member mark and we have the full family of
Scouting We meet every Monday night term time at the following times
Beaver Scouts : 17:30 - 19:00
Cub Scouts: 19:00 - 20:15
Scouts 19:30 - 21:00
Explorer Scouts 20:15 - 21:30
Trinity Centre,
265 Burrage Road
Plumstead
London
SE18 7JW
​What We Offer
Scouting exists to actively engage and support young people in their personal development, empowering them to make a positive contribution to society.
Mission
Scouts is all about fun, challenges and adventure.
We are the UK's biggest mixed youth organisation. We change lives by offering 6- to 25-year-olds fun and challenging activities, unique experiences, everyday adventure and the chance to help others so that we make a positive impact in communities.
Scouts helps children and young adults reach their full potential. Scouts develop skills including teamwork, time management, leadership, initiative, planning, communication, self-motivation, cultural awareness and commitment. We help young people to get jobs, save lives and even change the world.
What do Scouts do?
Scouts take part in activities as diverse as kayaking, abseiling, expeditions overseas, photography, climbing and zorbing. As a Scout you can learn survival skills, first aid, computer programming, or even how to fly a plane. There’s something for every young person. It’s a great way to have fun, make friends, get outdoors, express your creativity and experience the wider world.
What do volunteers do?
This everyday adventure is possible thanks to our adult volunteers, who support Scouts in a wide range of roles from working directly with young people, to helping manage a Group, to being a charity Trustee. We help volunteers get the most out of their experiences at Scouts by providing opportunities for adventure, training, fun and friendship.
Our award-winning training scheme for volunteers means that adults get as much from Scouts as young people. Our approach focuses on what you want to get out of volunteering with Scouts, while respecting how much time you can offer. Over 90% of Scout volunteers say that their skills and experiences have been useful in their work or personal life.
The History of the 4th Royal Greenwich 'Trinity'
Our group started life on 7th January 1931 as the 25th Woolwich. The meeting place was Herbert Road Methodist church which is at the bottom of Paget Rise (now the Catholic Church). There were 18 boys from the Sunday school that started the group. The first big event the group took part in was a trip to see Baden Powell (founder of the Scout movement). Woolwich district hired part of a train to take the cubs and scouts from Woolwich Arsenal to Crystal Palace, the pack had been making Indian costumes from sack-cloth and head dresses from chicken feathers.
In 1938 the Methodist Church in Eglinton Hill closed and the congregation joined Herbert Road. The scout group that met at that church was the 18th Woolwich which also had to move, and rather than keep two scout groups meeting at Herbert Road it was agreed that a new group would be formed from the two groups. The new group’s number was formed by adding the two groups numbers together 18 + 25 = 43 and then this number was reversed and the 34th Woolwich was born.
Around 1967 Herbert Road church moved to join with two other churches (Plumstead Common and St Johns Methodist Church) hence the new name of the church where we are, became ‘Trinity Methodist Church’. The church services at the time were held in the scout hall whilst the church was being built. We had our 50th anniversary in 1981 where the then current and previous scouts & scouters met for a reunion. The 34th has been
Just down the road in September 1981 a new Scout Group was formed to bring scouting to the newly built Woolwich Common estate. This groups was the 45th Woolwich. It started off very small and just ticked over until 1994 when the most of the leaders left and the group numbers we very low, the group was to close when the DC at the time, appointed a young 26 year old GSL to see if he could turn it around...
It was an uphill battle to make any progress, but some good new leaders and some great new scouts and the group took off like a rockett and never looked back!!! In the Early 2000 the groups membership was over 120. The Group moved to the Woolwich Common Youth Club in 1998. in 2003 the Snow Leopards Explorer Scout Unit was opened in partership with the Group. 2007 10 Members of the Group took part in the 21st World Scout Jamboree the first members from Woolwich in over 35 years.
In 2014 the Woolwich Common Youth Club had become too small for the 45th Woolwich so the GSL started the process of looking for a new hall. The numbers at 34th Woolwich had become dangerously low. So the 2 Group Scout Leaders dicided to close the two groups and start and new group at Trinity. Called Trinity Scouts 'The 4th Royal Greenwich'
The Group has a group knot for it's badge which is the Trinity Knot
Bringiing two groups together and Bringing Scouting back to Trinity Again.
