Tag: 13th
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Christmas Camps
We’ve noticed plenty of festive events going on around our district this holiday season. Here’s a taste at what’s going on… Please get in touch if you have something to add 13th Beavers Christmas Sleepover: Explorers’ Christmas Camp View this post on Instagram Ice skating ⛸ A post shared by Apollo Explorers Southampton…
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☀️ Round Up: Summer Camps 2018
It’s been a busy Summer, with many of our young people attending various camps across the country. Here’s a round up of what happened while school was out for summer! 2nd Southampton This year, the scout troop made their way to Chelwood near Bath for a week of activities including caving, cycling around the canels and…
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District Camp From The Sky
Watch this incedible birds-eye video from this year’s District Camp. Drone footage of Lyons Copse Camp Site and Kayaking. Can you spot yourself?
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Scouts Paint-balling Day
Last weekend, over 40 Scouts and leaders spent the day blasting paint-balls at each other at Delta-Force in Romsey. Young people from the 2nd, 7th, 13th, 14th and 29th took part in 12 team games ranging from defending castles, protecting the president in an apocalyptic London and surviving a zombie invasion. It was a great day…
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Paralympic Athlete Aaron Phipps Comes to Visit
For the Disability Awareness Badge we had an amazing evening with Aaron Phipps. A truly inspirational person! We had over 75 young people come along from Beavers and Cubs. What an amazingly positive person he is, certainly an inspiration! The beavers especially liked watching Aaron flip an opponent out of his wheelchair in the 2012 London…
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Scouts DIY Raft Race
Teams from across Southampton jointed together at Testwood Lakes for the annual Scout Raft Race. Using a combination of pioneering, paddling and perseverance groups took their craft to the the water and battled against each other. Well done to everyone who took part and those who enjoyed cheering from the waterside. It was a really fun day.…
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Could you survive a weekend in the forest with just your friends?
Last weekend 8 teams of Scouts from across our district spent 2 nights away camping in the forest without any adult assistance. Emlyn Camp takes place each year with the aim for young people aged 10.5 to 14 to survive a weekend away with their friends as a group of 4, 5 or 6. This year…
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Loggerheads 2015
Elaine reports on the beaver scouts Loggerheads competition 2015… The loggerheads competition was held in June at our district campsite – Wilverley – where seven colonies entered teams of up to 4 Beavers. The colonies were asked this year to provide ‘Scouting’ activities as their base. The Beavers from each colony worked together as a…
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CHEERS GENERAL CUCUMBER!
General Cucumber or known to others as just the land rover which has been the image of sea scouting at the 13th Southampton city scout group since 1984 when it was recognised the group needed a vehicle suitable for towing then an old transit van. General Cucumber was apart of the commonly Known series Land Rovers,…
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Farewell 13th Land Rover
My fellow scouters, and scouts it is with a tinge of sadness that I announce that one of the 13th Southampton Sea Scout group will be retired from service after 30 years. She has served the group (and indeed the District) through all the good times and bad. And has always been there to assist…