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Both boys and girls aged between 6 and 8 years can join the Beavers, although not all Beaver Colonies currently accept girls.
Check here to find which Groups in Oldham have a Beaver Colony and whether they accept girls or not.

Beavers play games, make things and create masterpieces with handicrafts, go on visits to nature reserves, fire stations, theme parks, listen to stories, make new friends, sing and make musical instruments.

There are a number of badges a Beaver Scout can wear. A membership badge, 3 Challenge Badges, the Chief Scouts Bronze Award, a Joining In Badge and choose your favourites from 5 Activity Badges.

In addition any member of the Scout Group can gain one of the staged badges or Group Awards. These cover Swimming, IT, Musician, Nights Away, Environment, Faith, and International Friendship.

All the badges and Awards can be seen on our Beaver Badges page.

You can find out what you have to do to earn these badges by looking at the Beaver pages on Scoutbase.

If you would like to see what the Beavers in Oldham have been doing then read all about their activities on the following pages:

The Beaver Leaders will be planning lots of fun activities during the next year, check the diary page to find out what has already been planned.

If you want any more information, then have a look at the Beaver pages on ScoutBase, the Scout Associations web site

Now it's up to you, either go along to your nearest Beaver Colony, or look at the Group Information page for the location of your nearest Beaver Colony.

This page was last amended on 14 February 2008