Friday December 12th - Saturday December 13th

On Friday evening the Scouts set out to answer a very important question. Are Christmas the people of Brentwood, Harold Wood or Gidea Park best at illuminating their houses with festive Christmas lights.  And we did this by going on a night hike being a Night Hike we finished well after midnight so we thought we would sleep over at our hall and then start Saturday with a second hike and turn it into an Expedition Challenge!

Thursday November 20th

The Scouts have been getting creative. The older Scouts have been creating a festive stop motion animation, meanwhile the young scouts have been learning to make and pain Warhammer figures.  We have even found time for some Scouts to volunteer sorting stock for the foodbank.

Thursday October 2nd

The district cooking competition is on its way and so we have decided to do a lot of practicing. This week we were making a rather tasty curry. We held an inter patrol competition. All the curries were verry very good, but it was the quality of the rice that split our teams.

Thursday September 11th

This week the Scouts were meeting together for the first time after a late summer break. The leaders decided to break the ice with a set of team building exercises.

Thursday July 17th

Time for a raft building exercise. Four teams of Scouts attended our meeting at Thriftwood where we built four rafts and attempted to complete parts of the nautical skills badge. It had been a warm day and some of the scouts were eyeing to cool lake before we even started.

Thursday June 19th

The Scouts were back at Crow Camp, this time to do a bit of camp site service. They were picking up rubble that had been spread around some parts of the site that have been off limits since the old kitchen area was demolished. This will be a small step to unblocking the next phase of site improvements.

Thursday June 5th

This week the Scouts were practicing their patrol tent pitching skills. Many of the Scouts had never used a mallet to set a tent peg before so this was useful practice. Once checked the tents were packed ready for summer camp.

We were once again supporting the Friends of Raphael and Lodge Farm parks by litter picking the exposed part of Blacks Brook. As well as the usual assortment of crisp packets and drinks containers we found socks, hanging baskets and a fully inflated space hopper!

THURSDAY APRIL 3rd

The Scouts were encouraged to get creative by arranging the contents of things geometrically. On the right was the hall tool box. Below are the contents of a hike first aid kit and the dodge-teddy stock.

The contents of a patrol cooking box.

THURSDAY MARCH 27th

The Scouts were at Crow Camp tonight practicing backwoods cooking skills. This was all the more a challenge because it got dark shortly after we arrived. A couple of teams created tasty meals, others were a little less organised and ran out of time.

FRIDAY MARCH 13th

Our Friday beavers had a sleep over at our hall..

SUNDAY MARCH 10th

We entered two teams into the Romford District Scouts Orienteering competition. 21st Romford Scouts only had one Scouts so one of our teams kindly let him join them. That team went on to win!