Where do you meet?

[orion1107]

Not so much where, but 'in what'!

If any other please point them out!

Having just read a report about how Dartford Council are trying to regenerate their high street, they mentioned scouts guides and other voluntary organisations renting units as a meeting space. Do you feel this is suitable?

[marcush]

If the unit is large enough then yes it could work. I know of halls used by scouts/guides and other organisations that have similar ceiling height to a shop and work fine. Also know a few scout groups that meet in quite small halls and manage fine.

[Chopwell's yeti]

My group meet in a brick HQ which was originally a small council yard. We bought it off them when they left and its since had a small extension. This was back in the 70s I'm told. We just have a main hall, kitchen, office, toilets, loft and a yard outside.

[CambridgeSkip]

Ours was purpose built by the group leaders themselves in the 1960s. Alas it is seriously showing its age and needs complete demolition and starting again.

[Gooders]

Not so much where, but 'in what'!

If any other please point them out!

Having just read a report about how Dartford Council are trying to regenerate their high street, they mentioned scouts guides and other voluntary organisations renting units as a meeting space. Do you feel this is suitable?

I'm no expert on this subject but I thought that one of the main issues with High Streets was the relocation of mainstream retailers to out-of-town malls and their replacement with charity shops with reduced footfall.

How would leasing a shop to Scouts/Guides etc, who only meet in the evening generally, help with regeneration?

Stephen

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[orion1107]

I'm no expert on this subject but I thought that one of the main issues with High Streets was the relocation of mainstream retailers to out-of-town malls and their replacement with charity shops with reduced footfall.

How would leasing a shop to Scouts/Guides etc, who only meet in the evening generally, help with regeneration?

Stephen

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Im not sure really, I don't know if it is just to get some tenants into units, but i imagine that any group using it as a meeting place would have to move in a few years if the rental market pics up in that area.

Not saying I agree with the concept, just wondered where other groups met. On the plus side I can imagine it would be a good way to show scouting is alove in the community, I know some halls that are very tucked away!

[Lister]

Ours is a wooden hut inherited from someplace (workers hut or something)

[Ceiron]

We have a small camp site. Two indoor halls. Kitchen. Shower block. Memorial room. And upstairs storage. Plus an attic which used to host a rifle range.

[Russell Corrie]

Two indoor halls.

Whats an outdoor hall like

[DonTregartha]

We have a small camp site. Two indoor halls. Kitchen. Shower block. Memorial room. And upstairs storage. Plus an attic which used to host a rifle range.

Superb facilities....we used them when some twonk torched our hut

[jshirra]

My old scout group met in a pre cast concrete hut with a little land around it

Loughborough group met in a church hall

Explorers meet in what I'd call a mobile classroom at...well...a school...

I've seen a scout hut that was a house in Scotland before! I guess, depending on what you have available will cause you to adapt what you do!

[Ceiron]

Whats an outdoor hall like

Haha. I dont know.

Is a weird phrase in one respect.

The facilities are very good. Shame they lost a chink of land. Hopefully some investment and next few years improvements will make it even better.

[Russell Corrie]

Reminds me of a friend who said on holiday once "We got a grand piano at home I cant remember where it is" and she still couldn't accept she was a different class to the rest of us

[Gooders]

My old scout group met in a pre cast concrete hut with a little land around it

Was that the hut on the Lower Luton Road near the river?

Stephen

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[jshirra]

Was that the hut on the Lower Luton Road near the river?

Stephen

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Nope! Try the other part of the district!