Tynemouth Sea Scout Group receives donation for sailing and canoeing training plus new banners

By Craig Buchan
Published 8th Dec 2022, 07:50 BST
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A Tyneside scout group has received a donation to expand the services they can offer.

Tynemouth Sea Scout Group received a £3,000 donation from the Richard Henry Holmes Masonic Benevolent Fund and the Northumberland Mark Benevolent Fund.

The funding helped train four adult volunteers in canoeing and sailing and to purchase two personalised banners.

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The group’s new banners first debuted at this year's Remberance Day parade in North Shields.

Members of Tynemouth Sea Scout Group with their new banners.Members of Tynemouth Sea Scout Group with their new banners.
Members of Tynemouth Sea Scout Group with their new banners.

Don Charlton, chairman of Tynemouth Sea Scout Group, said: “I wish to place on record our appreciation to Northumberland Freemasons and Northumberland Mark Benevolent Fund for their most generous grants.”

The recently formed scout group consists of sixty members and 8 voluntary leaders across their beavers, cub scouts, and sea scouts divisions, with almost fifty children on the waiting list to join.

Jeff Ormston from Northumberland Freemasons said: “We are extremely pleased to have been able to assist with this great cause.”