Shackleton Mountain Activity Weekend

Shackleton ESU travelled to North Wales for their Mountain Activity Weekend Camp from Thursday 11th April to Sunday 14th April. Whilst staying at Cornel Scout Centre, they took part in hill walking and climbing activities. On Friday, the two teams took part in a full days hillwalking including some entry …

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Chief Scout Awards – April 2019

Congratulations to all youth members who were presented their Chief Scouts Awards during the awards ceremony in April 2019. The Chief Scout’s Bronze Award is the highest award available to Beaver Scouts. It is gained by a Beaver who completes each of the Global, Promise, Creative, Community, Outdoor and Fitness Challenges. The Chief …

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County Scout Awards

On Sunday 20th January the County came together at the Drill Hall in Horsham and spent the afternoon celebrating another great County Awards Afternoon and presenting many of our Young People from across the County with their various awards! Over the course of the afternoon we presented the following Chief …

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Happy Christmas

Crawley District Scouts would like to take this opportunity to thank all of you, our members, our parents, our friends, and our supporters, for another brilliant year of Scouting. We hope you all have a wonderful Christmas and a sparkling New Year with, most importantly, some quality time with family …

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1st Northgate and 5th Crawley sleep with the Dinosaurs

On the weekend of 10th/11th November members from 1st Northgate and 5th Crawley travelled to The Natural History Museum to participate in the Dino-snores event. We enjoyed activities such as a science show, designing our own dinosaur t-shirts, searching for dinosaurs on a torch lit trail and an animal encounter. …

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Mountain Activity Weekend 2018

From Thursday 25th October to Sunday 28th October, 19 Explorer Scouts and 3 Scout Network from across Crawley District were hosted by Drake Explorers at their annual mountain activity weekend staying at a bunk house in Cynwyd, North Wales. Participants spent 3 days walking in the mountains, including Snowdon (the …

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Young people first: Safeguarding and Safety in Scouting

Wherever we go and whatever we do, we put young people’s safety and wellbeing first. Here's how.