Do you know what the worst job for a leader is? It’s telling kids that they can’t join the group.

Click the image to see our growth since 2002

We refuse a couple of kids per week and we hate it. Our waiting list is not something to be proud of. It doesn’t show how succesful we are, it just shows that there are dozens of kids who don’t have the benefit of all the fun, friendship and adventure that they deserve.

We know this. We do our best to get as many kids in as possible.  We’ve nearly doubled in size in ten years.

We could open a new beaver colony, cub pack and scout troop tomorrow with the numbers on the list. Isn’t that awful? we have just taken 8 kids from the list into cubs and that gives us 165 youth members but we have another 96 kids aged from 6 to 14 who want to get in.

Have you seen this? It’s rather good
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We’ll keep trying to grow. We’ll keep recruiting adults and we’ll keep offering everyday adventure to as many kids as possible.  For now, click on the tab marked links at the top of the page and you can choose to see the waiting list policy on there.