Group Scout Leader Update:

It’s that busy time of year, with everyone gearing up for the holidays – so the update is relatively brief this week.

Please don’t forget that we are collecting food bank donations during December. We have donation points in the Scout Hut front entrance and by the Beaver Lodge door, plus Raptor Leaders will happily take your donation during pack meetings. If you could avoid cans of beans or tinned tomatoes, that’d be great please – we have lots of those already. Thank you!

The week ahead (9th December 2019 onwards):

Section meetings

Beavers

Castors, Boomers and Millstones will all be doing Christmas crafts this week and meetings will be at the normal times.

Future Beaver events

All Beaver colonies will be meeting together on Friday 20th December at 6.30pm for their Christmas party. Please bring along some food to share.

Cubs

Raptors are meeting at Chapeltown Swegway Park on Thursday for their final session of 2019. You should have received full details in an email and an event invite from Akela.

Bella Vista – we will email if there’s info needed for this week’s meeting.

Alegre – we will email if there’s info needed for this week’s meeting.

Scouts

Enigma are going on a night hike this week. Please make sure you come in boots and a warm waterproof coat, and bring a torch.

Wibbles will be meeting as normal at the Scout hut this week.

Viernes will be meeting as normal at the Scout hut this week.

Future Scout events

Those who have signed up for our Christmas Camp will receive a briefing pack by email this week along with payment details.

We have notified everyone who secured a place on this year’s Santa Run. Participants must be in warm weather gear, wearing their Scout necker and festive apparel ready at the Scout Hut for 17:30 on Friday 13th.

Explorers

Following our meet up with other members of the district for a camp recently, Scorpion Explorers will meet back as normal this week. There’ll be an email if anything changes.

Future Explorer events

We have notified everyone who secured a place on this year’s Santa Run. Participants must be in warm weather gear, wearing their Scout necker and festive apparel ready at the Scout Hut for 17:30 on Friday 13th.

Previously:

All Sections

It was wonderful to see so many families and friends at the Christmas carol service on Monday. If you missed the photo roundup of the celebrations – you can get to it here.

Here are a handful of the snaps:

Cubs

On Saturday, Cubs from all three packs went by minibus to Miller’s Dale to take part in abseiling off of the bridge. A fantastic time was had, with many brave and fearless Cubs descending the mammoth drop. We shared the pictures here – feel free to take a look.

Here’s a sample of some captured:

Hope you have a good week …