Sausage Sizzle
We said goodbye to the summer term in the deerpark with another sausage sizzle for the whole Group including their families.
We said goodbye to the summer term in the deerpark with another sausage sizzle for the whole Group including their families.
Our Cubs had a great time at Evolution over at Circencester Park. Another cracking weekend camp organised by the Gloucestershire S&E Team.
A great weekend for Strategy for our scouts. They returned tired, but happy after a weekend of incident hike around Cirencester Park on Saturday and adventure activities on Sunday.
Scouts had a delightful evening on the Wye up from the Symonds Yat rapids on Monday, developing their skills in preparation for a day paddle in September.
We invested our new Squirrels and Beavers and have recruited a few more to be invested after half term. We have refreshed the leader teams and we said goodbye to Coralie from the scouting development team who has helped us for the last few weeks.
Scouts took part in the first “Survival Friday” since 2018 on Friday night. They have to build a tarp shelter, sleep in it, light a wood fire, and cook breakfast. We managed to get a bacon buttie before midnight and a full English (scrambled, beans, bacon, sausage) before clearing away. A mild, dry, light wind…
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We had a mediaeval Cub camp in Lydney deerpark. Quests, jousting, trebuchet, a visit to the temple. Even managed to spot the Northern Lights. Weather was kind.
St George is the patron saint of Scouting. Some of the young people and leaders joined the Coleford parade this afternoon. Sunny, warm and dry weather made it pleasant. It wasn’t too long, so the young people didn’t mind too much.
Yippee, after a short pause we are restarting Squirrels and Beavers. Our first night went well with plenty of adult helpers.
We held our Annual Families Afternoon on 14 April. We had a 7m climbing wall, archery, tomahawks, Olympic style target shooting, and firelighting skills. The weather was kind to us and we completed the formalities of the AGM in the middle of it. Dean was awarded his wood beads and Andrea was recognised for 15…
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