3rd Hampton Scout Group

17 scouts and 7 cubs had a fun weekend of crate stacking, caving, high ropes, archery and other site activities along with backwoods cooking, branding and fire lighting. Also taking part in competitions in rounders, football, tug of war and volleyball – where the cubs won the football, again and the scouts were successful in the rounders!!

We had sunshine for most of the weekend, the forecast thunderstorms never came and the rain held off allowing for dry canvas returning to the stores, phew!!

More photos in the gallery to the side

The booking form for next year’s Family Camp is now in the Camps section of the website.

Please complete it and book your places, so we can arrange the best choice of activities for the camp

If your not sure what it’s all about speak to some of the 20+ families that enjoyed a packed weekend at Tolmers a week ago.

This weekend brings about the latest in a busy term of camping – the Cubs have been to Polyapes, the scouts have done Water weekend (at Thames Young Mariners), a week ago we had over 80 people at our annual family camp (at Tolmers) and this weekend the scouts and cubs are off to Borough Camp.(at Walton Firs)…..

It’s great to enjoy the outdoor life in such favourable weather. Photos from all the events will be added to the Gallery shortly.

All sections start back next week with scouts and beavers on Wednesday 19th April and Cubs on Thursday 20th April. We hope that you have all had an enjoyable Easter break.

Over the coming months all sections will be busy with activities and camps.

For details of the scout camps planned check out the Camp details/forms section – for the password contact Nigel

Well done to the scouts that camped out last weekend at the HQ and not only braved the cold, but also managed to successfully cook their meals on an open fire and assisted the scout leaders in tidying the woodpile, loading our new wood store and also tidying up the grounds.

Many thanks for all those beavers, cubs and scouts that were able to join in the parade on Sunday 13th November. A smaller turnout than in recent years but all looked happy in the annual group photo – post is later than planned as I was waiting for photos from parents that took them on the day – to pick the best one.

This was the only photo taken – so if you have any others that may have everyone smiling – please send to Nigel (Scout Leader)

We hope that you all had a great summer break and are looking forward to restarting beavers, cubs or scouts for some new adventures……

Well done to the 12 scouts that camped at the HQ last weekend to start their scout camping journeys. With great weather the scouts successfully set up their tents, cooking areas and then proceeded to get their wood piles ready for their cooking fires.

In their patrols of 6 they cooked 5 meals on their wood fires – they did two traditional fried breakfasts, a Stir Fry with Noodles, a Vegetable Stew with mash, burgers and fried potatoes, supplemented with puddings of angel delight, apple pie with custard and chocolate swiss roll.

It wasn’t just cooking…. they chopped, sawed and split wood, built some camp gadgets, did plenty of washing up, played games and all worked really well together to make it a great weekend – roll on Water Camp in June….

All, the “readiness” level for scouting in England is now Green – which means that we are able to get back to all aspects of scouting, whilst still operating in a covid safe manner.

That means camps are being organised along with lots of other fun activities. The new Beaver Leadership team is operating very well with an active programme of badgework and other activities – they recently attended the District Beaver Christmas Party where all attending had a great day.

We are always looking to increase our leadership teams – as the maxim “many hands makes light work” is something that we strongly believe in as a group. All our leaders are busy people and with more adults joining us it would help spread the workload and also mean that we can potentially offer even more activities.

Finally, Family Camp is all booked for 24-26 June 2022 – so please complete and return the booking forms that have been sent out ASAP to secure your place. If you haven’t had one yet – email Nigel (Scout Leader) at:- scout.leader@3rdhamptonscoutgroup.com