Here’s a quick video and we agree with every word of it!
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Ok, not as catchy as the famous limerick that begins in a similar fashion but not even Duchesses get away without doing their training
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cumbria-21803336
Everybody in scouting who helps out more than once a month has to do some introductory training and the leaders do even more than that. Every section is led by at least one adult who is either in the middle of, or has finished, a 19 module training scheme that covers everything from the Data Protection Act to camping skills. Don’t worry, it’s all offered in bite-size chunks over a period of a few years.
Don’t let a lack of experience put you off volunteering, you name it and scouting can train you in it.
There’s a role for everybody in scouting
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A really fun blast from the past for Thunder Troop – Scout staff drill – here was what the PLs worked from:
and you can check out how successful they were here:
[youtube width=”640″ height=”360″]http://youtu.be/VAJiZVjfRgk[/youtube]
Our Census figures are in and our numbers are looking good.
The census is a snapshot of our membership on the 31st January and although we were slightly down on last year, we’re going to grow again slightly soon.
One thing is obvious, the growth of the group is dependent on the support of our volunteers.
The more adults that we recruit as volunteers, the more young people can enjoy everyday adventure at The Fifth. Tina has joined the beaver team (massive welcome) and that will allow us to take a few more into that section but our big plan has to be to open another beaver colony.
We have 84 beaver-age girls and boys on the waiting list.
They’re unlikely to get a place
That’s enough for at least 3 new colonies locally.Â
Keep an eye out for our recruitment drive or step forward now to help us open a second colony.
We’re also looking for volunteers (regular or occasional) for the scouts and explorers. Both sections are flourishing but more help means more fun and adventure. Please email [email protected] to find out what’s involved.
13 scouts and explorers jumped in the minibus down to Margate for Games Expo East Kent – GEEK 2013.
Hundreds of computer grames from the 70s to right up to the  latest releases. Pinball machines, arcade cabinets handhelds, educational machines, consoles, mobile, handheld and more.  It was all there and we had a brilliant day
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Tim was poorly so Phil and Von ran a challenge night for the explorers. (get well soon Tim)
Map symbol quiz
Logic puzzles
Marking by Von (thank you)
Flag quiz
As I left, they were playing a jumping challenge game and before I got there, they’d been knotting and doing something with hula hoops (i’m guessing a hula challenge).
We’ve done the slides, we’ve done the negatives and we have an archive of over 70,000 photos from our 67 year history at scoutsphotos.com
We’ve started on the films and 1990 is now online . You can subscribe to our youtube channel where we publish all our videos (edited and in full) Â but here are the edited (ish) videos that we’ve done so far.
Summer Camp 1990
[youtube width=”640″ height=”480″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jk22IOeGO_o[/youtube]
Whitsun Camp 1990
[youtube width=”640″ height=”480″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vYEx2pqYgA[/youtube]
St George’s Day
[youtube width=”640″ height=”480″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mO2Mh8wfy1U[/youtube]
Narrowboating
[youtube width=”640″ height=”480″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIyUa7iZIBU[/youtube]
District Cross Country
[youtube width=”640″ height=”480″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY6wsrjm1hY[/youtube]
Pancake night at Lightning troop!
Yummy!
Only a minor burn and no reports of food poisoning yet so a very succesful pancake night for Thunder troop.
Yes, that was an awful lot of food colouring but it did all get eaten!
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I popped into the hut and found a kitchen turning out quality Chinese food and all running on child labour. Very happy child labour!
