Southampton City Scouts News Archive

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  • Fly goes to a Wedding

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    David had been a member of the Seahawk Venture Unit of the 13th Group when they were in the old West District. They were an unruly bunch, a bit wayward at times but did some really good things. Above all they had a real friendship and loyalty to one-another and loved their Scouting. 6 members…

  • Himalayan Balsam Bash

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    Over the course of our five hours both movements worked together in four mini groups. Two groups worked in different areas to pull up the Himalayan Balsam Weed. This is an invasive weed that needs to be cleared on an annual basis to reduce its invasion from riverbanks. This will then allow natural vegetation to…

  • Himalayan Balsam Bash

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    All in all a good day for both the Scouts and Brownies showing the local community what we can get up to and showing them that some of the local children do care about the environment and are happy to help clear it up, and that both movements can work together in harmony to a…

  • Beaver Loggerheads

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    The theme of this year’s competition was events of the 60 years of the Reign of our Queen. The day started with each team making a colony flag and a lunar space module, more on that later. Now the competition began in earnest. There were 8 twenty minute bases for the teams to complete. Everest,…

  • Gillwell 24

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    Saturday morning 0900 hrs and the start of the 24 hours of activities. On offer was a wide variety of activities – zorbing, shooting, mountain boarding, AA driving school, scuba diving, trapeze, bushcraft, wood work, fun fair, power kites, internet café, radio station, disco, climbing, cinema, information tents to name some.  Being the ten year…

  • Cub Sports

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    Admittedly the weather hasn’t been good recently, but despite very strong winds, it remained dry until presentation time.  This year there was a special trophy, awarded for the best cricket ball throw (in memory of Mike and Audrey Behan from the 9th who had for so many years run this event for us) and Mike…

  • From Colin

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    The District has a very clear five year plan to enhance the scouting in our district. That was formed at our first district development day back in October last year. We have started to work on the key objectives of that plan and we will be helping every group to plan for a better future.…

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  • From Colin

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    This will give an increase of an additional 2,408 children in our area who may want to join our scouting. It would not be good if we didn’t forward plan our groups to meet some of that demand. I for one want all children who want to join scouting to be given that opportunity not…

  • 9th Troop Morrice Dancing

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    I enjoyed morris dancing because it was very amusing. We had to dance weird but it was great.  I had a great experience learning how to morris dance and it was a good opportunity to earn my heritage badge. I enjoyed the music and using the sticks. Some parts were hard and it was really …