Mark Eastman 
This weekend saw the annual Ifield May Fayre which 2nd Ifield has supported for many years. It all started on Sunday with a number of adults spending time building the rope bridge and dredging the pond on a nice warm afternoon.Monday morning we all woke to heavy rain, and some flooding, but …
On the 4th May twelve Chestnut Beaver Scouts went to Boidier Hurst Camp site in Tadworth, near Boxhill, for their Summer camp.The Beavers enjoyed camping outside, a campfire (with lots of songs and some magic!), a three mile hike, putting up tents, tye dying t-shirts, making bug hotels, learning new …
On Sunday Scouts from around the Country celebrated Scouting’s Parton Saint, St George, including our own event in Crawley. For all those who achieved their King Scout Award (the top award a young person can achieve) in the past year they are invited to the National Celebration of Achievements in …
On Sunday 21st April the District gathered for the Annual St George’s Day Parade, where we celebrated our patron Saint. All the young people processed through Goffs Park up to the Goffs House. We were joined by our Mayor. We heard from Ian Philips, minister of Crawley Baptist Church, where …
1st Southgate Beavers and Cub Scouts had a wonderful, warm afternoon at the Gravetye Estate Thursday. Supported by our volunteers, they learned new skills using a variety of hand tools to do coppicing. The wood will then be used to make a dead hedge. They were all extremely well behaved …
At the weekend some of 7th Crawley (Furnace Green) Scouts took part in an expedition for their Expedition Challenge badge. They hiked through the Ashdown Forest, set up camp at Broadstone Warren, prepared their own dinner and breakfast, before striking their tents and setting off again for another hike. They …
On Saturday 30 March saw over 100 Squirrel Scouts and Beaver Scouts from around the District gathered at our lovely campsite Stanford for the annual Beaver fun day. The young enjoying a variety of activities around the campsite put on by our volunteer leaders. They were well fed by the …
Over the past few days we have invested all our new Squirrel Scouts, the first to the Group and District. A total of 23 young people are now Squirrels. We also invested 5 new leaders to the group to support the Squirrels. Two were invested last Monday due to being …
Over the weekend of 16/17 March, Oliver, George, Katka, Dylan, Philip, Harry, Charlie S, Charlie H and Billy did their Scout Expedition Challenge Badge. We started in Pound Hill, Crawley at one of our Scout leader’s houses, leaving there we hiked down the Worth Way to Stanford Scout Campsite. As …
This Sunday saw K2’s diving pool again full of kayaks, as 2nd Ifield gave the Cub Scouts a taste of the fun of kayaking. The event organised and run by two of their Kayak instructors, Damien and Mark, assisted by some Explorer Scouts and Scout Network. Spread over three sessions …
Today 2nd Ifield filled St. Margaret’s Church to standing room for their Mothering Sunday service. The service started with the two new squirrel flags being bless by Rev Christine, before being paraded.
This weekend saw 100 young people from the group spend Saturday night at AirHop in Guildford. This included members from every section and supported by 22 adults from the leadership team and our Active Support Unit.