by A Gray | Jun 5, 2016 | Miscellaneous
One of the fundamental principles of Scouting is that of service to others, which can come in all sorts of ways. Scouts may do a ‘service’ as part of their Chief Scouts Award or Duke of Edinburgh’s Award, which really does help get a good grasp on...
by Mark Lloyd | Feb 4, 2016 | Miscellaneous
Tonight we continued work on the new teamwork challenge badge with a series of tasks designed to test our ability to work together. As it was the last night of the Patrol of the month competition, the points from every challenge helped decide the winner. One challenge...
by Samantha Carter | Jan 13, 2016 | Cubs, Miscellaneous
Really good week at Cub, really good fun. I think I had as much fun as the kids. We started the scientist badge. We had four bases, inflating balloons without blowing them up using lemon juice, bicarbonate of soda, water, a small bottle and a balloon, mixing oil and...
by Samantha Carter | Oct 10, 2015 | Cubs, Miscellaneous
It was time for our twice yearly Sixer & Seconder Team Building Day today. We had 10 Cubs attend today which was really good. I thought we may not have had that many as there was a bit of a mix up with the calendar, but all turned out okay. The cubs that missed...
by Mark Lloyd | Aug 8, 2015 | Miscellaneous, Scouts
The hype for Black Moss Pot had finally reached fever pitch so we had no choice but to take advantage of the good weather, postpone our annual visit to the big city (Keswick) till the afternoon. Quite a few of the Scouts went straight for the very top and we managed...
by Mark Lloyd | Aug 8, 2015 | Miscellaneous, Scouts
This morning Mr Lloyd received a phone call that sounded quite serious. A plane had been brought down by a water balloon and it was carrying some kind of top secret weapon. As he’s part of some kind of elite response unit of Scout leaders we were tasked to...
