The boys & staff from the Company Section took a trip to TeamSport e-Karting in Clydebank on Friday 12th December 2025 for their Christmas Night Out. The boys took part in an evening of karting, each completing 2 x 15 minute sessions, trying to log the fastest lap in each session. A great night was had by all!

Our Seniors prepared and led our Friday parade night on Friday 14th November 2025. The challenge was to deliver an entertaining & full evening for the rest of the boys. Games including Hide & Seek, pickleball, foot tennis, Gaga ball, trampoline & they fed everyone too!

The church held their annual fundraiser, 'The Bonanza' on Saturday 1st November 2025. As always the boys from the 5th were on hand on the Thursday & Friday evenings to assist people with carrying in any donations from their cars to the stalls inside as well as washing cars on the day itself. Well done to all who helped.

Th Company Section were on parade on Sunday 9th November 2025 for Remembrance Sunday. We also held our annual act of Remembrance on the Friday evening, paying our respects to the members of the 5th Glasgow who gave their lives in the two World Wars.

Here are some other things we have done during previous sessions...

For our Summer Day Out on Saturday 21st June 2025 we visited Lost Shore near Edinburgh for a day of surfing & skateboarding. We all had a great day out and there were a few sleepy heads on the way home!

Thanks to The Glasgow Tigers, the Company Section took in the Speedway fixture with Poole Pirates on Friday 6th June 2025. Despite a 47-43 defeat it was a great match & all the boys & staff had a good night out.

Members of the 5th Glasgow participated in the Glasgow Battalion Kings Badge Parade & Ceremony at the City Chambers on Thursday 29th May 2025. The Colour Party did a great job, (spot the wardrobe malfunction), and the weather behaved! The Lord Lyon took the salute and after inspecting the Battallion, he presented the new King's Badge Certificates to 44 boys who had completed the requirements for this the highest award in the BB. A great night was had by all and it was a fantastic event - celebrating all that is good about the BB!

Five of our Seniors headed to Denmark at the end of May 2025 to participate in the annual FDF Væbnermesterskabet. An amazing opportunity & making memories for life

We spent the last 2 Friday nights of the 2024-25 session outside at 'sun kissed' Jordanhill for loads of fun & games. The newly promoted Junior Section boys joined us too for games including Pursuits, Knots & Crosses & Knock it Our the Park.

We held our 'Open Evening' on Friday 16th May 2025, where the boys showcased some of the activities and skills they had learned during the 2024-2025 session. After a short opening, we did a spot of Drill, some trampolining and then a 'Joke Builder' game. We closed the evening with the Presentation of Awards where we had 1 Presidents Badge to present too! Great night.

Happy Birthday to us! The 5th Glasgow celebrated our 140th birthday on 30th March 2025 at the weekly Sunday church service. Formed on 30th March 1885 in the Mission Hall at 199 Cowcaddens, under the Captaincy of J Carfrae Alston and still going strong!

Our annual Coffee Morning returned on Saturday 8th March 2025. As well as the usual bottle stall, groceries, raffle, hot rolls & silent auction the senior boys were kept hard at work washing cars outside. After a very busy morning we raised over 1,700 pounds for company funds. A big thank you to all family & friends who came along and supported the 5th or who donated items (or their time) for the morning's great effort!

Our famous Quiz Night returned on Saturday 18th January 2025 with a capacity crowd of over 100 quizzers taking part in what was a closely fought contest. Friends, Family & Boys of the 5th gathered in the Large Hall for an evening of questions covering topics such as Supermarket Own Brands, 'Aye-KEA' or 'Naw-KEA' and Mr Men & Little Miss Character Names in Other Languages! 12 teams took part in a relaxed, but competitive evening. Thanks to all for taking part.

The boys & staff from the Company Section took a trip to VR Simulators on Friday 13th December 2024 for their Christmas Night Out. The boys went virtual reality racing with loads of dodgy driving, crashes, & good laughs. Great fun was has by all!

Our Weekend Camp was held at the 1st Glasgow's campsite, near Tighnabruaich, from Friday 7th to Sunday 9th June 2024. 12 boys & 6 staff attended the action packed weekend! Leaving the church at 6pm on the Friday in the minibus we took the ferry from Gourock to McInroy's Point and arrived at Camp around 8.30pm. After organising the tents & rules for the weekend we ventured out into the countryside for a few widegames. Following the twilight games everyone settled down to supper before lights out at 11.45pm.

After rising at 8am on the Saturday and a hearty breakfast the boys had a quick tent inspection before the day's activities commenced. With the boys split into 3 groups of 4. The first group took to the water with Morna, a qualified instructor from Sea Kayak Argyll, the second group took part in the 19 1/2 steps, a widegame that involved them solving clues using a map of the local area. The final group undertook some Team-Building Challenges near the campsite, including 'Snow Escape' (pictured). After lunch the groups swapped round but unfortunately the high winds meant the sea kayaking was not possible in the afternoon. The Cowal Open Quoit Golf competition and a hotly contested game of football took place before dinner. After dinner we had a game of rounders, a quiz to rest our weary legs and tax our brains, then as the light faded it was time for more widegames. After a full days-worth of activities the boys were keen to get to bed after supper at 11pm for a well-earned sleep.

Sunday morning saw a few of the boys unwilling to leave the comfort of their sleeping bags but after some gentle persuasion they managed to make breakfast at 8.30am before duties & tent inspection. The morning was taken up with another widegame, 'Contraband', which saw two teams trying to smuggle coloured 'moonshine' past a team of guards (i.e. the staff) who were armed with water pistols. After lunch there was just time for another game of football before tidying & packing up camp then climbing into the minibus for the trip home after a very enjoyable weekend.

The boys & staff from the Company Section took a trip to The Loading Bay on Friday 15th December 2023 for their Christmas Night Out. The boys took part in Parkour and Skateboarding taster sessions during the evening under the watchful eyes of the Loading Bay's expert coaches. Great fun was has by all and everyone returned home in one piece!

We held our final trip of the session, our Summer Day Out, on Saturday 10th June 2023 to Castle Semple, Lochwinnoch. The boys and staff enjoyed a day of mountain biking & kayaking - overseen by fantastic instructors from Clyde Muirshiel Park. The weather was excellent so some boys decided to test the water temperature by taking a dip in the bay when they returned their kayaks!

BB Glasgow arranged another excellent afternoon of watersports at Pinkston during July 2021. This time the boys were tubing down the man-made whitewater course. There were plenty of thrills & spills as the boys were swept downstream. Hold on tight!

The boys & staff headed to Seil, near Oban on Friday 1st June 2018 for an overnight stay in Seil Village Hall in the village of Ellenabeich. Arriving at 9pm the boys managed a game of football before dark, followed by supper, (hot dogs), and an World Cup-themed quiz. Saturday morning brought warm but foggy weather, not great for our early morning trip with Seafari, a 2-hour powerboat tour around the islands of Scarba & Jura taking in the wildlife and Corryvreckan whirlpools along the way. After our tour and a belated breakfast the boys managed a bracing hike up the hill overlooking the island of Easdale and the other nearby islands and also a treasure hunt around the village. Despite the foggy weather all the boys & staff thoroughly enjoyed the trip and returned home tired but happy on the Saturday evening.

(l to r): The boys & staff outside Seil Village Hall, preparing for Seafari and out on the water in 'Celtic Nomad'

As many of our Senior boys were leaving us at the end of this session we planned an extra day out for them on Saturday 21st June 2014! 5 seniors & 3 staff hopped in the minibus and took a trip to Dunbar. After a detour for some donuts at Krispy Kreme we arrive in Dunbar at 11am and headed for Belhaven Beach for a game of beach volleyball. Once we were suitably sandy we headed along to Foxlake Adventures for a session on their Foxfall obstacle course. Wearing wetsuits and helmets all the boys & staff tackled the obstacle course, without safety ropes, perched above a man-made pond!

Once dried we grabbed some lunch and travelled back to Belhaven Beach to pull on another wetsuit for a couple of hours of surfing. All the seniors thoroughly enjoyed the lesson, most even managing to stand up on their boards by the end of the lesson! After fighting our way out our wetsuits we headed into Dunbar for dinner, a chippy, then back to the beach for a game of football before returning home after a long, action-packed day!

Friday 24th February 2012 saw Ian Hislop and a camera crew attend our normal parade night to film what we do. The crew filmed the opening parade, drill & trampolining for a BBC2 television series about Britain through the centuries and the role the Boys' Brigade played in the moral and physical character building of young men. As well as filming the activities Ian interviewed a few of the boys, asking them what they enjoyed about the BB and how it plays a part in the building of their character.

The programme called "Ian Hislop's Stiff Upper Lip" was shown during October 2012 on BBC2. You can still view it on YouTube.

The boys & staff with Ian Hislop