Welcome...

...to Look East, the online home of Basingstoke East Scouting District.

Please take time to browse our site and find out a little about the history of our District and the groups within it.

If your looking for a group for your child to join, please feel free to email our District Commissioner for more details of the groups within the district. Alternately, to contact a particular group email their Group Scout Leader.

Basingstoke East Scout District is one of two districts covering the Basingstoke area. The district has eight groups, each having a Beaver (6 - 8 yrs), Cub (8 - 10 1/2 yrs), and a Scout (10 1/2 - 14 yrs) section. There are also two Explorer (14 - 18 yrs) sections in the district.

The district comprises, Basingstoke town centre, Black Dam, Chineham, Eastrop, Lychpit, Oakridge, Old Basing, Popley, South View and villages to the south east of Basingstoke.

• Scouting is for girls as well as boys.

• Scouting is a global movement.

• Young people can join at any stage of their development.

• The Scout Association is a registered charity.

• Scouting is great value!

• Robert Baden-Powell, the Founder of Scouting was recently voted the 13th most influential person of the 20th Century.

• Famous former Scouts include Sir Paul McCartney, Ross Kemp, Jamie Oliver, Richard Hammond and David Beckham.

• Each day 100,000 people in the UK take part in Scouting activities.

• Scouting for Boys, Baden-Powell's blueprint for the Scout Movement is one of the most popular books of all time.

• Scouting was 100 years old in 2007.