Our History Timeline
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2002 |
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The 17th Nene (The Hamptons) Scout Group opened with a Cub Scout Pack for 8 to 10.5 years at the Hampton Hargate Community Room. |
2003 |
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The 17th Nene (The Hamptons) Scout Group opened a Beaver Scout Colony for 6 to 8 years at the Hampton Hargate Community Room. |
2004 |
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Sadly the 17th Nene (The Hamptons) Scout Group closed its Cub Scout Pack. |
2005 |
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The 17th Nene (The Hamptons) Scout Group reopened it Cub Scout Pack. |
2007 |
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The 17th Nene (The Hamptons) Scout Group opened its Scout Troop for 10.5 to 14 years at the Hampton Hargate Community Room. |
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2012 |
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The 17th Nene (The Hamptons) Scout Group opens a second Cub Scout Pack at Hampton Vale Primary School. Both Cub Scout Packs become named after the Scouting founder and first Chief Scout - Lord Baden-Powell with the;
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2013 |
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The 17th Nene (The Hamptons) Scout Group official names its Beaver Scout Colony after our 10th Chief Scout Bear Grylls and is named Grylls Beaver Scout Colony and also moves to CSK Hampton Church. |
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The 17th Nene (The Hamptons) Scout Group official names its Scout Troop after our 9th Chief Scout Peter Duncan and is named Duncan Scout Troop and moves meeting night and also venue to Hampton Vale Community Centre. |
2014 |
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The 17th Nene (The Hamptons) Scout Group Baden Cub Scout Pack moves to Hampton Vale Primary School and the Powell Cub Scout Pack moves night. |
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The 17th Nene (The Hamptons) Scout Group - Duncan Scout Troop moves to Hampton Vale Primary School and changes its night to Tuesdays |
2015 |
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The 17th Nene (The Hamptons) Scout Group merged the two Cub Scout Packs due to lack of Leadership together and created the Baden-Powell Cub Scout Pack meeting at Hampton Vale Primary School. |
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The 17th Nene (The Hamptons) Scout Group opened a second Beaver Scout Colony in September 2015 with the support of Cambridgeshire County Scouts and the Colony was named after our 5th Chief Scout William Gladstone and was named Gladstone Beaver Scout Colony at CSK Hampton Church. |
2017 |
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2018 |
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The 17th Nene (The Hamptons) Scout Group - Baden-Powell Cub Scout Pack moves to Hampton Gardens School. |
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The 17th Nene (The Hamptons) Scout Group - Duncan Scout Troop moves to Hampton Gardens School. |
2020 |
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The 17th Nene (The Hamptons) Scout Group - Gladstone Beaver Scout Colony closes in March 2020 due to lack of Leadership. |
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In March 2020 the Country goes into the first Coronavirus Lockdown and Scouting has to go on Online. |
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In September 2020 Scouting was allowed to meet face-to-face again but this had to be socially distanced and outside. Over the next year our Sections did a mixture of face-to-face meetings outside and online depending on the rules. |
2021 |
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In October 2021, The 17th Nene (The Hamptons) Scout Group had to temporally move the Scout Group to the local area of Fletton due to no available venues within the Hampton Community for the next 8 months, the Scout Group met at St. Augustine's CofE Junior School in Fletton. |
2022 |
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The 17th Nene (The Hamptons) Scout Group was able to move its Beaver Scout Colony , Cub Scout Pack and Scout Troop back into the Hampton Community and started meeting at Hampton Gardens School after May Half Term. |
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The 17th Nene (The Hamptons) Scout Group on the 7th June 2022 open the brand new Squirrel Scout Drey for 4 - 6 year old, named after our 8th Chief Scout George Purdy and named Purdy Squirrel Scout Drey at Hampton Lakes Primary School. Our Squirrel Scout Drey was the 1st Drey to open within Peterborough. |
2024 |
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The 17th Nene (The Hamptons) Grylls Beaver Scout Colony moves meeting nights from a Thursday to a Monday due to Volunteer availability. |
History of our Group Lead Volunteers
(Formerly named Group Scout Leader)
Every Scout Group is lead by a Group Lead Volunteer (this was previously called Group Scout Leader until November 2024), over the 17th Nene (The Hamptons) Scout Groups history, the Scout Group has had the privilege of having different people volunteering in this role.
May
2002 
Mr P. Simon Parsons
Group Scout Leader |
Vacant
July 2011 to January 2012 July
2011 
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January
2012 
Mr David Rist
Group Scout Leader |
Vacant
July 2015 to September 2015 July
2015
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October
2015 
Mr Neil Webb
Group Scout Leader / Group Lead Volunteer |
Vacant
November 2025 to Present November
2025 
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History of Peterborough District Scouts
The 17th Nene was launched as the newest Group in Nene District. Even though Scouting only started in 2002 in Hampton, Scouting in Peterborough started back in 1910 with the 1st Soke of Peterborough King's School Troop in the District of the Soke of Peterborough, in 1966 the District was renamed to Peterborough District and in 1968 the Peterborough District was split into two Districts, creating Peterborough North and Peterborough South Districts. In 1977 the two Districts were moved round to create three Districts within Peterborough; Fitzwilliam, Hereward and Nene District (in 1999 Fitzwilliam and Hereward Districts had the same District Commissioner, and in 2000 they were merged to create Medehamstede District). From 2000 the City of Peterborough had two Districts within it Medehamstede in the North and Nene District for the South. On the 1st October 2017 Nene and Medehamstede Districts were merged together to create one Peterborough District again.
Civic Honours
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On the 11th October 2006, the 17th Nene (The Hamptons) Scout Group along with all the other Scout Groups from Peterborough, within Medehamstede and Nene District, were given the highest honour from the City when we were given the Freedom of the City of Peterborough. This is the first time that any Scouting Group/District/County has been so honoured in this way.
The Freedom of the City was presented to Martin Hall (Divisional Commissioner - Medehamstede & Nene District 2005-2007) on behalf of Peterborough Scouting at the Annual St. George's Day Parade and Service on the 22nd April 2007 by Councillor M. Todd (Mayor of the City of Peterborough 2007-2008). To mark this historic event a tree was planted in Peterborough City Park and each District added the freedom of the City to their District Badges. Since 1st October 2017 members of the Peterborough Scout District hold the Freedom of the City of Peterborough after the merger of the two Districts. |
Freedom of the City badge from
11th October 2006 to 1st October 2017 
Freedom of the City badge from 1st October 2017 onwards
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