Ifield May Fayre 2024

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 …

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National Celebration of Achievements

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 …

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1st Southgate visit Gravetye Estate

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 …

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7th Crawley Scout Expedition Badge

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 …

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Beaver Easter Fun Day 2023

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 …

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2nd Ifield Invest their first Squirrels

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 …

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2nd Ifield Scout Expedition Badge

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 …

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Kayak Taster Sessions – March 2024

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 …

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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.