CLYDEBANK Beaver Scouts have been busy learning how to help build a better community.

Youngsters in the Sixth Clydebank Beaver Scouts teamed up with West Dunbartonshire Community Foodshare towards their world challenge badges.

During the three-week project, volunteers from the foodshare visited and explained to the boys and girls aged six to eight what the charity was all about and how many residents they helped.

In the second week, the Beavers went shopping at Asda in Clydebank, each taking £2 to buy goods to fill the WDCF trolley in front of the store.

And it was left overflowing at the end of the trip.

During the third week, they visited the WDCF offices sorting and organising donations, making up food parcels and putting together “children’s bags” – little bags of treats for youngsters over the school holidays.

Claire Neads, Beaver leader, told the Post: “The whole series of visits went amazingly well and the children, and their parents, many of whom helped out, learnt an awful lot.

“John from WDCF was amazed at how much the kids took in for their age and was overwhelmed not only by the amount of items we bought on our trip to Asda but also how hard they worked at making up the food packages.

“It’s great how organisations can work together for the benefit of the community.”