National Scout Rifle Championship
Members of the District attended the National Scout Rifle Championships at the weekend. They enjoyed lots of shooting at a variety of ranges and guns attaining some good scores.
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Downsman Hike Competition – Shackleton ESU
Congratulations to Xander, Sam, Ben and Jake for completing the B Class and Nathan, Joe, Corey and Charlie for completing the E Class in the 2022 Downsman Hike Competition. Full details on the Shackleton Website.
United in sorrow
Scouts across the UK join the nation in mourning the loss of our beloved monarch and Patron, HM The Queen. Her outstanding example of service, encouragement and kindness was an inspiration to us all.
Shackleton Explorers – D of E Silver Qualifier Expedition
Congratulations to both of our groups who successfully completed their D of E expeditions in the New Forest this weekend. Walking around 60km over the 3 days, the teams also demonstrated teamwork, navigation skills and excellent camp craft. We had excellent weather and both teams actually looked like they were …
Chief Scout’s Gold Awards
Recently Barney, 7th Crawley, and Alex, 1st Crawley were presented with their Chief Scout’s Gold Awards by Superintendent Alex Gerldart of Sussex Police at a ceremony in Horsham. Dawn and Lauren of Drake Expolorers received their Bronze Duke of Edinburgh Awards and Zac of SRF Expolorers got his Young Leader …
Shackleton Explorers – D of E Bronze Qualifying Expedition
Congratulations to our two explorer teams who completed their Duke of Edinburgh Award Bronze expeditions in Ashdown Forest this weekend in the heatwave! Both teams worked amazingly well with each other and the participants even had enough energy left to tackle the Blackland Farm assault course. The Duke of Edinburgh …
2nd Ifield Tiger Cub Scouts Senior Cub Camp
Saturday 11th – Sunday 12 June 2022 The leadership team arrived on site at Beacon Hill campsite on Friday evening to set up for the following day to mayhem in the carpark from other groups trying to leave, having already escaped mayhem in the carpark of our Acorn HQ too. …
Go Beavers 2022
On Sunday 12th June, over 800 Beavers arrived at Blackland Farm for a fun filled day of activities. Beavers got to try a range of exciting adventure activities alongside some traditional scouting and craft activities. There were 4 zones – adventure, scout skills, fun and craft. Each Beaver had an …
1st Balcombe Beavers
On a hot summer’s evening, Lucas and Finn were awarded their final activity badges. Lucas completed his you shape awards before half term and Finn completed his tonight. They have worked extremely hard to gain these achievements and all the beavers and leaders are very proud of them. Well done. Toni …
Stanford Jubilee Celebrations
On Saturday 4th June, over 400 members and families gathered at Stanford Scout Campsite for a day of celebrations in honour of the Queens Jubilee. After an opening ceremony, many activities were available including, Archery, Tomahawks, Crossbows, Field Games, Karting, Face Painting and much more! After a day of activities, …
District Explorer Scout Administrator Investiture … at height
Tonight Shackleton and SRF Explorers held a joint meeting taking part in Climbing and Abseiling. In total 40 Explorers attended. During the evening, we also took the opportunity to present Zac with his YL buckle and invest Dipti, our District Explorer Scout Administrator. Not wanting to waste the fantastic facility, …
Volunteers Week – Join us
Volunteers Week takes place 1-7 June every year. It’s a chance to recognise the fantastic contribution volunteers make to our communities and say thank you. All our activities are run by volunteers, who might join us because they want to: Try something new Make friends Spend time with their children …