About the Company and the Boys' Brigade & Girls' Association
The Boys' Brigade (BB) was founded in Glasgow on 4th October 1883 by Sir William Alexander Smith. From this one Company formed in Scotland, the BB has grown into a world wide movement having worked with millions of Boys and young men for well over a century. The present 1st Malvern Company was founded in May 1988; it is parented by Malvern Baptist Church (MBC).
Incorporating the Christian faith, the Boys’ Brigade cares for and challenges children and young people through a programme of informal education in a fun way. Each week more than 50,000 young people, aged 5 to 18, take part in one of its 1,450 groups supported by 12,000 volunteer leaders.
Find the website for the Boys' Brigade across the UK HERE.
The Award Programme is specifically designed to encourage a Boy of any age to look beyond themselves. Many are interested in one type of activity - perhaps sports, or natural history. Our special programme provides for such interests and at the same time gently urges them to try others of a different type. This provides a balanced all round programme - which includes spiritual and social input as well as physical and adventure activities in 5 different programme zones... right through until they are 18 years of age and young men ready to take on the world.
Girls' Associations (GAs) were added to the Boys' Brigade in 2008 for those Companies which wished to allow all young people to join.
1st Malvern Company is part of the Gloucester Battalion in the West of England and Channel Islands District. Other Companies in the Battalion are based in Tewkesbury, Cheltenham, Gloucester and Swindon to name a few - find the Battalion Facebook page HERE.
The Boys' Brigade has a sister organisation in the Girls' Brigade (GB), which follows many of the same principles. 7th Malvern Girls' Brigade is the most recent local Company, closing in 2024; it was also parented by Malvern Baptist Church. Find the national GB website HERE.