• In the second night of athletics activities, we participated in a 400m relay race, with each team member running 100m. The cubs also done a long jump, and a sargent jump. Fox came out as the winners of the team athletics games, with a total of 39 points! Followed by wolf with 36 points, and

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  • Tonight we were up at the park doing our first of two team athletics nights! We were split into our teams again, and each team competed in the ball throw, target practice, the 100m sprint, the 400m sprint and the skipping race. So far, Fox is in the lead with 27 points! Let’s see how

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  • Tonight at Scouts we discussed what it means to be a Scout, a bit of history about how the scouting movement began with Robert Baden-Powell and individual experiences of scouting skills and activities.

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  • Tonight at cubs we got into our new athletics teams for the coming two weeks and completed some team building exercises, including answering questions about ourselves, learning warm-up routines, and learning why warming-up and cooling down before and after exercise is important. After this, we discussed what different sports people would wear. The youngsters dressed

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  • We have had a fantastic time on Group Camp this weekend at Dilston in Northumberland. Friday may have been a bit of a washout (The Explorers found out that when a tent leaks you don’t really want to sleep in it), but we didn’t let that spoil anything. From firelighting, to string trails, to walks

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  • It was lovely to see everyone back at cubs tonight, and great to hear everybody’s stories about what they’ve been up to over the holidays. We will be resuming our program as usual in two weeks time after next weekends camp – a reminder that cubs will not be running next week for those who

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  • Leroy the Lion! We’d like to introduce you all to our official spokeslion, Leroy. He will be responsible for keeping our facebook page up to date with all the latest information, gossip and how our events have gone. Look out for him at camp and on a Friday night at our section meetings.

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  • We’re now way past what we call the “beginning of the digital era” so it’s about time we updated our website and turn it into something that’s a bit more appealing to the eye and something which contains a bunch of useful information and links! Including posts about what we’re getting up to in scouts,

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