The League was keen to foster social ties among its members, and social events for the association's families and supporters were organised regularly. In July 1933, for example, the League's Second Annual Garden Party was held at Westcliff-on-Sea and attended by about 60 people. Among them were five out of the 43 scouts from Jamaican groups who were visiting Europe to attend the International Jamboree in Hungary. On their return to England, a party of them took a special course in Scouting at Gilwell Park while the remainder spent a week in Sheffield. The summer programme for 1934 included an International Garden Party in Champion Hill, and a boating party on the Thames.

(The Keys, Vol. 1, no 2, October 1933 p27; vol 1, no 4, April - June, 1934, p75)

Outings were also arranged for children, and in October 1933, images of children on a day out to Epsom were printed in The Keys . Other social events for children included annual Christmas parties. (The Keys, Vol. 1, no 2, October 1933, p39; p25, 28; Vol 1, no 3, January, 1934, back page)

The League was as concerned about the social problems that faced many Black children as it was with entertaining them. Nancie Hare wrote a long piece on the prospects for such children, and she painted a bleak picture of London and Cardiff, where many Black people lived in slums, where houses were either not well built or in bad repair. (The Keys Vol V July- September 1937 p11-12 & p25)

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