about us

About Us

1st Bookham Scout Group is located in Bookham, Surrey. Bookham lies 3 kilometres west of Leatherhead on the A246 towards Guildford. The Group is one of seven within Leatherhead Scout District, which comprises Leatherhead itself and the surrounding villages of Ashstead, Bookham, Effingham and Fetcham.

Oak Pack in their costumes, summer camp 2007 - more>

The Group is approaching its centenary and currently has over 200 members. It operates six individual Sections, has a 'partnership' agreement with an Explorer Unit and an association with a core group of Network Scouts. They all wear the Group scarf of green and purple halves. The six Sections comprise two Beaver Colonies (Heron and Puffin), two Cub Packs (Ash and Oak) and two Scout Troops (Greville and Hutchison). Greville Troop takes its name from the family that occupied the nearby Polesden Lacey estate until 1941 and now managed by the National Trust and Hutchison Troop after Captain Robert Hutchison, a former Scout Leader within the Group and District Commissioner of the previous joint Epsom and Leatherhead District.

The Group had its Headquarters close to the centre of Bookham village, which it shares with 3rd Bookham Scout Group, until March 2008. Progress is now being made towards moving to land purchased from Surrey County Council, about 1 kilometre from the old site. Details of this can be found via the following Our NEW scouting centre link to the left.

The Group is managed by a Group Scout Leader (GSL) and is supported by a Group Executive Committee. Any enquiries, including membership and other matters should in the first instance be directed through the GSL, Chris Sheppard who can be contacted on 01372 456665, send him an email to chris1stbookhamscouts.org.uk or by using our enquiry form click here>.