A CUB scout group from Thornbury has revived Bob-a-job week to help raise funds for a community in Uganda.

For the past two months, the Cherokee and Mohawk cubs, who are part of 1st Thornbury Scout Group, have been carrying out various jobs for family and friends, charging 20p a job in order to raise money to set up a scout group for children in the Acholi community in the slums in Kampala, Uganda.

Ruth Wong, Akela of the Cherokee Cubs, said: “The scout group had been looking for ways in which the cubs can learn more about the wider scouting community, and in this case the international scouting community.

“As a result of this, we have been in discussion with Helen Harrison, Mayor of Thornbury, who, through her varied charity work, has close links with a charity called Cred Foundation."

Owen Luke, Akela of Mohawk cubs, said: “Helen talked to us about a gentleman who is part of the scouting movement in Uganda and was keen to set up a scout group for children in the Acholi community in Kampala.

“Our aim was to help fund enough money to set up a scout group, which would cost in the region of £370 for 40 young people and leaders.”

To raise the funds, the cub scouts instigated Bob-a-job time.

Bob-a-job is a good turn scout-movement initiative, which started during Easter week in 1949, where, in exchange for a small payment, scouts turned their hand to gardening, shopping and household chores from dog walking to window cleaning, to raise money.

Of the cubs carrying out chores to fundraise, Ruth said: “It was reminding many parents of the old Bob-a-job they did when they themselves were children - jobs have included washing up, laying the table, sweeping leaves in the garden etc.”

The cubs were also given a smartie tube, and after the sweets were eaten, the cubs saved their 20 pence pieces in the empty tube, with each tube holding £12 in total.

Along with Mayor, Helen Harrison, the cubs were delighted to be joined by Rob Mills, the Group Scout Leader, as the cubs presented Helen with a cheque for £500, which equated to 2,500 jobs the cubs had achieved between them.

She will pass on the funds to the Cred Foundation to help communities in Uganda.