14TH KINGSTON & MERTON
Company & Senior Camps
Company & Seniors
Company & Seniors
Kingston Group Camp
The Company & Senior Sections join with other Boys and Girls Brigade companies and go camping for a week in the summer holidays as part of Kingston Group Camp. Kingston Group Camp has been going since 1982 and a list of camps, and further details, can be found below.
What's it all about?
- Getting to know new friends from other Companies & making lifelong friends
- Having great fun
- A full week of activities
- Fabulous Food
- Amazing countryside
When & where
It all takes place in for a week in the summer holiday. The location varies, but is normally on the south coast in Dorset or Devon, or on the Isle of Wight. Although the location may remain the same the camp sites do change. For more information click on the links below for more details of each camp. More details will follow as I have time to add it.
History
The 14th Kingston & Merton Company (formerly 14th Thames Valley) started camping in 1955. In 1982 they joined the Girls' Brigade from the 3rd Kingston Company to start Kingston Group Camp which is still going strong. It is a joint camp with the Girls' Brigade and over the years different companies have attended. It always takes place in the summer holidays, but specific weeks and locations vary to give the boys and girls a variety.
The companies that currently attend are:
Boys' Brigades
- 14th Kingston & Merton
- 1st Goodrington
- 1st Larkfield
Girls' Brigades
- 1st Kingston
- 1st Goodrington
- 1st Larkfield
Kingston Group Camps
| Year | Camp Site |
|---|---|
| 2022 | Bromley BB Site, Whitecliff Bay, Isle of Wight |
| 2021 | Headlands Actiity Centre, New Forest |
| 2020 | KGC2020@Home via Zoom |
| 2019 | Axmouth, Devon |
| 2018 | Bromley BB Site, Whitecliff Bay, Isle of Wight |
| 2017 | Headlands Actiity Centre, New Forest |
| 2016 | Axmouth, Devon |
| 2015 | Bromley BB Site, Whitecliff Bay, Isle of Wight |
| 2014 | Bromley BB Site, Whitecliff Bay, Isle of Wight |
| 2013 | Pembury Country Park, Carmarthenshire, South Wales |
| 2012 | Bromley BB Site, Whitecliff Bay, Isle of Wight |
| 2011 | Axmouth, Devon |
| 2010 | Bromley BB Site, Whitecliff Bay, Isle of Wight |
| 2009 | Bromley BB Site, Whitecliff Bay, Isle of Wight |
| 2008 | Befferlands Farm, Charmouth, Dorset |
| 2007 | Vectis Youth Site, Whitecliff Bay, Isle of Wight |
| 2006 | Swanage Middle School, Swanage, Dorset |
| 2005 | Befferlands Farm, Charmouth, Dorset |
| 2004 | Vectis Youth Site, Whitecliff Bay, Isle of Wight |
| 2003 | Vectis Youth Site, Whitecliff Bay, Isle of Wight |
| 2002 | Befferlands Farm, Charmouth, Dorset |
| 2001 | Basildon Site, Washpond Lane, Swanage, Dorset |
| 2000 | Vectis Youth Site, Whitecliff Bay, Isle of Wight (Y2K Camp, with Kent Battalion) |
| 1999 | Catherston Leweston, Charmouth, Dorset |
| 1998 | Befferlands Farm, Charmouth, Dorset |
| 1997 | Coopers Mead, Whitecliff Bay, Isle of Wight |
| 1996 | Coopers Mead, Whitecliff Bay, Isle of Wight |
| 1995 | Basildon Site, Washpond Lane, Swanage, Dorset |
| 1994 | Vectis Youth Site, Whitecliff Bay, Isle of Wight |
| 1993 | Woodroffe School, Lyme Regis, Dorset |
| 1992 | Rolle College, Exmouth, Devon |
| 1991 | King Ethelbert School, Birchington, Kent |
| 1990 | Vectis Youth Site, Whitecliff Bay, Isle of Wight |
| 1989 | Rolle College, Exmouth, Devon |
| 1988 | Basildon Site, Washpool Lane, Swanage, Dorset |
| 1987 | Vectis Youth Site, Whitecliff Bay, Isle of Wight (Joint KGC & K&M Battalion) |
| 1986 | Coopers Mead, Whitecliff Bay, Isle of Wight |
| 1985 | Woolacombe, North Devon |
| 1984 | Glenmist, Washpond Lane, Swanage, Dorset |
| 1983 | Dyffryn Ardudwy, Barmouth, North Wales |
| 1982 | Gengarry Camp, Chideock, Dorset |
14th Thames Valley/14th Kingston & Merton Company Summer Camps
| Year | Camp Site |
|---|---|
| 1981 | Woolacombe, North Devon |
| 1980 | Woolacombe, North Devon |
| 1979 | Jubilee A Site, Whitecliff Bay, Isle of Wight |
| 1978 | Jubilee A Site, Whitecliff Bay, Isle of Wight |
| 1977 | Glengarry Camp, Chideock, Dorset |
| 1976 | Glengarry Camp, Chideock, Dorset |
| 1975 | Freshwater Court, Freshwater, Isle of Wight |
| 1974 | Freshwater Court, Freshwater, Isle of Wight |
| 1973 | Glengarry Camp, Chideock, Dorset |
| 1972 | Glengarry Camp, Chideock, Dorset |
| 1971 | Jubilee A Site, Whitecliff Bay, Isle of Wight |
| 1970 | Oxwich Green, Gower, South Wales |
| 1969 | Lower Farm, Holland-on-Sea, Clacton, Essex |
| 1968 | Sunset, Freshwater, Isle of Wight |
| 1967 | Green Meadow Farm, Oxwich Green, Gower, South Wales |
| 1966 | Swanage, Dorset |
| 1965 | Swanage, Dorset |
| 1964 | Sunset, Freshwater, Isle of Wight |
| 1963 | Sunset, Freshwater, Isle of Wight |
| 1962 | Webbs Farm, West Wittering, Sussex |
| 1961 | Elmer Sands, Sussex |
| 1960 | Williton, Somerset |
| 1959 | Raxawe Mundesley-on-Sea, Norfolk |
| 1958 | Elmer Sands, Sussex |
| 1957 | West Wittering, Sussex |
| 1956 | Climping, Sussex |
| 1955 | Charmouth, Dorset |
