Fundraising

Why do we fundraise?

A large amount of the funding that is required to operate our group is raised through fundraising. Fundraisers allow us to purchase the gear we need for our program and reduce the costs of camps, sleepovers, events and outings. Typically, the amounts collected per youth through fees for these events are less than 50% of the actual cost. Your participation in our fundraisers helps to raise as much as possible to continue running our programs. Our major fundraisers for the 264 Group are Scout Popcorn and Bottle Drives while other Scouts Canada-wide fundraisers include coffee and Scout Seeds. There may be additional fundraisers to help with the costs of sending youth to larger section-specific events such as Jamborees.

For details on our current fundraisers, please refer to our Facebook page: www.facebook.com/264scouts

For any fundraising related questions, please send us an email: fundraising@264scouts.ca

National Scouts Canada Fundraisers

Scout Popcorn

This is our biggest fundraiser. It happens in the fall with preorders, and products are normally delivered in late November through December.

Scout Coffee

You are able to order coffee year-round and help support our group at scoutcoffee.ca. When checking out, please don't forget to select “264th Somerset-Bridlewood Scout Group” to support our group.

Scout Seeds

Each year in February and March you can order seeds through scoutseeds.ca. When checking out, please don't forget to select “264th Somerset-Bridlewood Scout Group” to support our group.


Bottle Drives


Three (3) bottle drives annually in our service area (Somerset, Bridlewood, Silverado, Yorkville and Belmont) – usually in September, January and May/June

Alternatively, if you want to support our group but don’t want to wait for a bottle drive date, you can donate your bottles through Skip the Depot: app.skipthedepot.com/264scouts

A third option is to turn in your bottle drive items yourself and donate the resulting funds to the group. This can be done by electronic funds transfer to: payments@264scouts.ca 


Event Specific Fundraisers

Bigger events like Jamborees (camps that are usually a week or more long and often in other provinces or countries) have a bigger cost associated with them, so youth do additional fundraising to help offset the cost.

Our Scout Troop attended Pacific Jamboree in July 2024 and it was a fantastic event. We are looking at where we would like to send Scouts next and will be doing lots of fundraising to help pay for this upcoming trip, such as: