Congratulations – National Awards
The Scout Association believes in recognising the achievements and commitments of the Leaders and volunteers through awards that are made for gallantry and meritorious conduct, and outstanding and excellent service. I am very pleased to announce that today the West Sussex Roll of Honour has been published and two of …
9 out of 10 people say Scouts develop active listening as a skill for life.
New YouGov research has revealed that better listening is the key to happiness and productivity at home, work, and in wider society. Significantly, it has also revealed that more than 9 out of 10 UK adults believe Scouts helps young people to develop the active listening skills needed for success. …
5th Crawley Scouts take on Storm Freya 2nd / 3rd March
Last weekend 4 Scouts from 5th Crawley walked from Box Hill to Caterham . They endured two contrasting days with bright warm weather on Saturday to 80mph winds with relentless heavy rain on the Sunday along the North Downs Way. Over the two days Corey, Alex, Luke and Catherine visited …
Climbing at 2nd Ifield Scout HQ
2nd Ifield Scout Group is pleased to offer Community climbing days at 2nd Ifield Scout HQ, Friston Walk, Ifield on selected Saturdays. Open to all ages and abilities, only £1 for members of Crawley District Scouts and £2 for non members. This is a open session and not leader supervised, …
We would like to say thank you to all of our volunteers.
Our Founder’s birthday is an occasion for Scouts everywhere to celebrate. Today, 22 February, we recall our Scouting adventures, meet our Scouting friends, proudly wear our scarves and celebrate the great diversity of our worldwide Movement. Today is also a time for us to renew our commitment to creating a better …
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 …
1st Crawley Scout Leader treks solo across Nepal to Everest Base Camp
Andy Hibberd is the Scout Leader at 1st Crawley and below is his account of this exciting expedition at the end of last year. His impressive month-long trek through Nepal took him over a variety of mountainous terrain, across several passes and to Everest Base Camp. Recently he made presentations …
Shackleton Explorer Shooting Success
With 2019 under way we have already started our winning ways – Crawleys Shackleton Explorers ventured to Hertfordshire for the Fire and Ice Winter camp with 1200 Explorers in attendance. The shooting trophies went our way with Deiniol taking the pistol trophy and Katie the rifle honours. An excellent result …
Canterbury Pilgrimage
On the 25th to the 27th of July a group of explorer and network scouts set off on an intrepid 3-day pilgrimage from Rochester to Canterbury around 60km braving the scorching summer heatwave with only what we carried on our backs with the goal of reaching spiritual enlightenment (evaluating our beliefs) and …
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 …
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. …