3rd Hampton Scout Group

Another successful Jumble Sale…

Posted on October 10, 2016 by Nigel

The rain held off and the Jumble managed to, yet again, raise over £3,000 towards group funds.

Many thanks to all those that helped on the day, in the build up and clearing away.

The next Jumble is on March 25th 2017 – and we really need much more help from the parents as we were very stretched this year sorting jumble in the build up, selling goods and clearing away on the day. It would be great if every family could help for even just a few hours either on the day or in the build up – it takes a huge amount of time to sort out the jumble that comes in…..

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Both scout teams successfully complete Day Prowl……..

Posted on October 10, 2016 by Nigel

Well done to the 13 scouts that made up our teams in yesterday’s event. Both teams successfully navigated their way around the whole course and one of them even managed to continue on and earn some endurance points!

The results are being compiled and double checked at the moment and I hope to be able to announce where we came in the competition within the next week or so.

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First scout camp of the 2016/17 season done and dusted

Posted on September 25, 2016 by Nigel

Well done to all those that camped at the Outdoor Skills Camp this weekend.

A weekend of basic scout skills, cooking for themselves on open wood fires, washing up, pitching and striking tents, teamwork and some fun and games – a few photos are now on Flickr.

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Scout camps for 2016/17

Posted on August 30, 2016 by Nigel

Check out the Camps section for all the details re camps etc. for the coming year – would be great to have the forms in for the camps ASAP – so we can make sure we have enough adults to help….

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Quiz night in aid of group funds – please support your group

Posted on August 21, 2016 by Nigel

Yet again we are to be the beneficiaries of a fund raising quiz night to be held at Hampton Social Club (Ashley Road)on Friday 26th August – 8.15pm for an 8.30pm start. Teams of maximum 5 adults, £5 entry per team. Quiz finishes at 10.30pm.

There will also be a raffle. All funds raised go to the group

Please come along for a fun quiz, cheap drinks and to help raise funds towards the kitchen redevelopment.

It would be great to have lots of teams there so we can raise lots of money for the new kitchen.

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Scouting starts again soon….

Posted on August 15, 2016 by Nigel

Beavers start the new term on Wednesday 7th September, Cubs are back on Thursday the 8th and Scouts on the 9th. For those new to the group – welcome!

Please check here for group news and information – the booking form for next year’s family camp is already on the website. IMG_0978 (1)

If you don’t have the password speak to your section leader.

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New Term at Scouts

Posted on August 15, 2016 by Nigel

The new term at scouts starts on Friday 9th September – more information will be going out via email and in the password protected parts of the website. The first competition of the year is on Sunday 9th October – Day Prowl – which is a district incident hiking challenge. I need to know right at the start of term who is up for this – teams of 4 to 7 scouts – we should be able to make up 3 or more teams to take part in this to build on our performance in the night hike earlier in the year…

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Summer Camp – over for another year

Posted on August 10, 2016 by Nigel

Summer camp was, yet again, blessed with great weather for most of the week and the few scouts that went enjoyed a week full of activities and fun, between them they did, zip wire, laser tag, abseiling, kayaking, various inflatables (assault course, bungee run, giant slide, gladiator, sweeper, slippery slope) as well as archery, air rifle, fire lighting, rope-a-phobia, quad biking, pedal cars, water wars, journalism, coconut tree climb, gyroscope, aeroball and the Tolmers incident hike.

In the evenings they enjoyed their own small campfires as well as watching a few of the movies on offer, finishing off with the Disco/foam party on Friday night.

Here’s hoping that we can get a lot more scouts there next to have a similar action packed week.

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Borough Camp 2016

Posted on July 4, 2016 by Nigel

Well done to all the 15 scouts that attended Borough camp this year – everyone played their full part and we were very worthy runners up in the football competition and performed well in the Tug of War (rounders and volleyball clearly not our thing….).

All the scouts should be very proud of how well behaved they were and how they all got stuck in to the various task asked of them, pitching and striking their tents, loading and unloading the van and doing their fair share of camp chores, washing up, sawing/chopping wood etc.

Still time, if you’ve got the camp bug and want more, to join up for a week of great activities at Summer Camp (link here to the activities on offer at Tolmers http://www.tolmers.org.uk/activities.php

Just let me know ASAP all the information is in the Camps section.

Photos from camp should be on Flickr soon

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Family Camp 2016

Posted on June 27, 2016 by Nigel

We hope that everyone has just about recovered from a fun filled weekend at Tolmers. Here’s to next year….. watch this space for details – they will be out soon so you can get the date in the diary.