Grantham Scout post is back for Christmas 2023

The Scout post will take place again in the Grantham area up to Christmas.

Grantham Scout Post is in its 29th year of fundraising and will deliver Christmas cards within the Grantham NG31 area and to Barrowby, Great Gonerby, Harlaxton, Allington, Sedgebrook, Colsterworth, Skillington, Foston and Long Bennington.

Bottesford and Ancaster are not included this year. There is no sales point in Barrowby this year either.

Malcolm Hall, district Scout post coordinator, said: “As a charity, we cannot post or deliver cards to any addresses outside the advertised delivery areas. Any cards in this category can be collected from the Scout Shop at the 2nd Grantham Scout HQ, Broad Street, Grantham, on Saturdays between 10am and noon until the end of January.”

Since the scheme started in 1993, over 430,000 cards have been delivered, raising over £70,000 for local Scouts. The stamp price this year is still 25p, after many years at 20p. Groups who deliver the cards will receive 18p of the 25p for each stamp on a card delivered in their area. The remainder goes towards district-wide projects.

In 2022 nearly 10,000 cards were delivered, slightly up on 2021, but boosting local group funds and at the same time helping to save money for local residents.

All the money earned either went to the individual Groups who delivered the cards and was spent on a variety of projects at local Group level, including the purchase of new camping and activity equipment, or to the District for funding bigger projects, such as the continuing need for training to help our young people, and for maintenance and improvements at the Ancaster campsite, Dukes Covert.

Stamps this year are only 25p each, except for large cards and calendars which will be 50p each. Deliveries will start from the last week in November, and continue until the weekend of the last collection on December 13.

From Monday November 20 special “Scout Stamps” will be on sale at the following outlets, all of which have special posting boxes.

Barrowbygate Pharmacy, Winchester Road

Morrisons Daily, New Beacon Road

The Melton Building Society, 43 High Street

Coversure Insurance, Conduit Lane (opp. Café)

Grantham Library, Isaac Newton Centre

Gonerby Club, High Street, Great Gonerby

Manthorpe Convenience Store, Rushcliffe Road

John Beaty Motors, Castlegate

Colsterworth Co-Op, Bridge End, Colsterworth

Long Bennington School