Concrete5 Website system now has a totally redesigned admin area, and an is, in my opinion one of the most suited to Scouting around, whats more its free.

Its straightforward to edit, but still very, very powerful.

Since I discovered Concrete5 and published a Scout friendly template here on Escouts, hundreds of sites have installed Concrete 5 and love it, even some people who wrote their own website system from scatch, have seen how powerful Concrete5 is and have made... [Read More]

HRH The Duchess of Cambridge has become Scouting’s newest volunteer and will help at local cub packs and beaver colonies, Clarence House has announced.

Read more at http://www.scouts.org.uk/news/463/sc...oyal-volunteer

Dear all!

If you are reading this, then your ISP has updated their DNS servers to point to our shiney new box!!

I am sleepy and will edit this to be more meaningful in the morning, however, whilst I am waiting on the search tables updating, I will give a summary of new stuff I have implemented tonight.

Facebook intergration
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Hi All, Just to make you aware that between the 27th and 30th of December the Escouts Community will be going down for anything upto 24 hours in order to allow us to make some nice changes to the community.

• Moved to a nice shiny new server that should be a lot faster for the majority of people
• Change the code base to VB4 which will allow us to improve a lot of the features in the community that are currently held together with virtual

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Hi

On behalf of the Team, we would like to wish you all an incredible Christmas and a great New year.

Hope you have a great time opening presents, having all the family around and..... planning more Scouting adventures for the years ahead.

I would like to thank everyone that keeps ... [Read More]