4th Hucknall Scout Group secures new tents through GO Outdoors’ £30,000 initiative to make the outdoors more accessible for young people.

Camping has always been at the heart of the Scouting experience, building confidence, resilience, and friendships that last a lifetime. However, for some groups, the cost of quality outdoor equipment has been a barrier. By donating tents to 4th Hucknall Scout Group, GO Outdoors helped remove obstacles and opened up new opportunities for multiple young people to enjoy nature safely and comfortably.

The donated tents were distributed to Scout groups across the UK, ensuring that as many young people as possible could participate in outdoor activities regardless of their circumstances. This initiative underlined GO Outdoors’ dedication to community support and their ongoing partnership with Scouts, which has included collaborative efforts to encourage outdoor learning and exploration.

Dwayne Fields, UK Chief Scout, said: “This generous support from GO Outdoors made a real difference to our movement. For many young people, camping with Scouts is their first experience of independence and adventure. Providing equipment like tents helped remove barriers and made it possible for more young people to benefit from these life-changing opportunities.”

Rachel Chinn, Group Partnership Manager at GO Outdoors from GO Outdoors, commented: “This gesture reflects our belief that everyone should have the chance to experience the outdoors and the benefits it brings. We are proud to support the Scouts in their mission to equip young people with skills for life, and we hope these tents have gone some way to help make camping more accessible to more young adventurers.”

4th Hucknall Group Lead Volunteer said: “Our Beavers, Cubs, and Scouts are absolutely thrilled with the new tents! They’re especially excited about the darkened rooms - a first for us! The sewn-in ground sheets are a huge improvement, especially after losing our old tents to flooding. We’re so grateful for this support, which means we can now include our Squirrels in full group camps for the first time”

GO Outdoors and Scouts continue to work hand-in-hand to inspire a love of the outdoors, making it easier for everyone to go camping, learn new skills, explore nature, and build lifelong memories.

Find more information about the partnership at https://www.gooutdoors.co.uk/scouts

About GO Outdoors

• GO Outdoors was founded in Sheffield in 1998. Now with over 100 stores and 300 outdoor brands across 9 different activities, GO Outdoors has grown to become one of the UK’s biggest and most loved outdoor retail chains. The company are well known around the UK for offering unbeatable in-store ranges of quality outdoor equipment and clothing, with the aim of inspiring and equipping everyone for life outdoors.
• By employing thousands of outdoor enthusiasts, each chosen for their passion for outdoor activity, GO Outdoors ensures that customers receive great advice, great products, all at discount prices. The GO Outdoors Member’s card unlocks exclusive prices across departments and can be purchased online or in-store, priced at £5 for an annual membership.

About Scouts

• Scouts, the world’s largest youth movement, was founded on 1 August 1907.
• In the UK, Scouts is supported by The Scout Association, enabling 7,000 Scout Groups across the country to provide opportunities to over 475,000 young people aged 6-25.
• There are now more than 638,000 individuals actively involved in Scouts in the UK.
• All genders, races and backgrounds are welcome at Scouts. Every week, it gives almost half a million people aged 4-25 the skills they need for school, college, university, the job interview, the important speech, the tricky challenge and the big dreams: the skills they need for life.
• Scouts helps members gain these skills by encouraging them to ask the big questions and listen with wide open minds. It helps them to take a deep breath and speak up, think on their feet, ignore the butterflies and go for it. With Scouts, young people don’t give up – they get back up and try again, often with the support of the friends they’ve made there.
• Over 200 activities are offered by Scouts around the UK, from canoeing and caving to coding and community projects, made possible by the efforts of over 163,000 adult volunteers.
• Worldwide, Scouts has over 50 million members, both male and female, and operates in nearly every country in the world.
• UK Scouts has over 250 Scout Activity Challenge badges. These require participants to achieve a level of understanding and skill realistic and appropriate to their age range.