Scouts recycle to create new home (From The Oxford Times)
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Witney Scouts and Beavers recycle to create new home
3:10pm Wednesday 31st October 2012 in News By Tom Jennings
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Some of the Beavers with, from left, assistant leader Claire Bellamy, Andrew Stokes, leader of Witney Scouts, Paul Johnson, deputy manager of Sainsbury’s, young leader Riley Stokes, 14, and Lee Brown, leader of the Beavers
SCOUTS in Witney have been collecting old clothes for recycling to raise thousands of pounds towards the cost of a new base.
The rag bag scheme has been proving popular, with people dropping their old clothes at four bins through the town. There is one at the Scout Hut in Marlborough Lane, one at B&Q in Thorney Leys Park and two at the Sainsbury’s store, in Witan Way.
About £15,000 has been raised in the past year for the Stable Barn project, a plan to create a £360,000 new home for Witney Buttercross Scout Group.
The site, opposite the current hut, will provide extra room for three Scout groups, four Beaver colonies, three Cub packs and an Explorer unit.
Having raised £110,000 to buy the building, the group needs to raise a further £250,000 for the conversion. So far they have raised £25,000.
Andrew Stokes, leader of Witney Scouts, said: “Having two local stores support us is really good.”
For more information on the Stable Barn project, see witneyscouts.org
