Annual Grand Jumble Sale

Jumble Sale is Back for 2022!
For many in the area, and certainly some of those reading this, there is only one Jumble Sale of note. For two years 1st Northwood Scouts have had to cancel it and it has been missed, not only for the funds it raises, but for the undoubted social event and valuable resource it is!

The date has been carefully chosen considering other events, bookings, commitments and holidays. So, a few facts:

• • Probably the largest jumble sale you will encounter
  • Preparation starts a month earlier
  • Work is done every day for that month
  • Sorting is done five days a week during that month
  • The field and the hut are well used
  • It takes two days to prepare them
  • There are over forty stalls
  • Clearing up is completed on the Sunday
  • Over two hundred volunteers are needed
  • It is THE annual fundraising event for 1st Northwood
  • The revenue is vital for the excellent programme of activities

During the lockdown of 2020 and the intervening months the volunteer leaders of 1st Northwood Scouts have provided such a magnificent programme of varied activities, challenges, social events, badge work and general good fun that not only did most of the children stay engaged (when many were turning off from extra-curricula Zoom meetings) but numbers increased and there is now a waiting list of children waiting to join. This could well be unique in the Scouting movement in this country and is an endorsement of the exceptional devotion and duty shown by our fantastic leadership.