1979
August: Scout Summer Camp in Brittany - Northern France.

1978
January: Robert Plumley and Bob Trigg take over running of Scout Troop.
July: 1st Prize in Coggeshall Carnival with Float entitled "Coggeshall Casualty Department".
August: Joint Cub and Scout Summer Camp at Norwich. Joint Cub and Scout Summer Camp

1977
Finishing touches to H.Q. -plastering, painting, tiles laid etc.
April: Headquarters Management Committee formed.
May: Official opening of Scout and Guide Headquarters with Pate and Wine evening in H.Q. Brecon Beacons Cub Pack joint first in Braintree District Sports Day.
August: Scout Summer Camp in Brecon Beacons - pony trekking, canoeing etc.

1976
Main building of H.Q. constructed of blocks and roof fitted.
August: Scout Summer Camp at 8th Essex International Jamboree

1975
Sewer trenches filled - connection to main sewer fitted - concrete base laid -entrance to site completed - building blocks delivered.
August: Scout Summer Camp at Glasbury: Brecon Beacons: Pony-trekking, canoeing and hill walking. Second Cub Pack started by Anne Evans. Packs named Brecon Beacons and Black Mountain.

1974
January: waste Paper Collection Scheme started. Collection on a street-by-street basis on the first Saturday in each month covering most of Coggeshall. Continued for 12 years and was the major contributor to funds for building and subsequently maintaining the Scout & Guide Headquarters.
April to September: Sponsored Potato Grow. June: Sale of several hundred sponsored blocks for new H.Q. Cub Scouts Runners-up in District Football Tournament.
August: Scout Summer Camp at Buckmore Park. Most of year spent laying out sewer pipes and connections for H.Q. and excavating base. Because of terms of Planning Permission decision made not to erect wooden clad walls of ex-army hut but to build in concrete blocks.

1973
Outline and detailed planning permission received and boundary fence erected alongside site of Scout H.Q. Scout Summer Camp held at a site near Llandovery in the Black Mountain South Wales. Camp included pony-trekking, canoeing, mountain walking and a visit to Brecon.

1972
Year long negotiations with Miss Woods and her family resulted in a 10 year lease on the land on which the sections of the army hut stored and making outline planning applications. Gordon Hewitt resigns as Cub Scout Leader and is replaced by Joyce Hockridge. John Drake resigns as Scout Leader and is replaced by Bob Faraway.
June: Cub Scouts win first Braintree District Football Six-a-Side Competition. Scout Summer Camp is the 7th Essex International Jamboree held at Hockley in South Essex.

1971
Big Fund-raising year to get money towards a Scout H.Q. - major events included a Sponsored Footpath Walk, Summer Fayre and Halloween Dance. Over two long weekends in May an ex-army hut at Bury St. Edmunds was dismantled and transported to Coggeshall and stored on a piece of land in what was later to become Windmill Fields by courtesy of Miss Woods. Total cost of army hut and transportation £201.Scout Summer Camp that year held at Buckmore Park, a Kent County Scout site near Chatham, Kent.

1970
A piece of land at back of cottages in Stoneham Street/Tilkey Road offered by Braintree R.D.C. on a 7 year lease.Scout Summer Camp at Bray, near Maidenhead, Berks, Venture Unit closed and members joined the Braintree Venture Unit.