So who’s the wettest?? Lol
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Here we are, on this sunny evening, making catapults. Two teams competing against each other! Who’s going to get wet??
The Fifth has doubled in size in 10 years and, to match the growth, we have had to buy an awful lot of kit. We welcomed girls in 2007 and that meant we needed more new tents, toilets and changing areas. We are careful with your money and we shop around for months to find the best deals for The Fifth. How about some examples?
The hut is a hive of activity with John and Oliver building 8 new benches for camp. They are only bickering a little but over measurements and there’s been no metric v imperial confusion yet!
measure twice, cut once
these are a third the price of go pak benches
bzzzzzzzzzz
Sun was shining so we built catapults tonight to fire water-soaked sponges at each other.
John explained what to do to 5 team leaders
More pics to follow on the photo website.
We have brought our Tilley lamps back to life. Each of these is worth £120.
All they needed was a bit of TLC and some new washers.
They run on paraffin and that is much cheaper than gas so it will save us a fortune (a couple of hundred quid this summer).
They give a lovely soft light and keep their pressure for 2 or 3 hours before they need pumping again.
Oliver has been scrubbing them until they shine.
and the glass has been dishwashed
we found 2 more at the end of the day!
this lamp was old when john joined the group in 1969
And now we just have to teach the scouts how to light them!
The girls and their make up plus Marci receiving his good scouting award for Whitsun camp
They are trying to look as if they are listening – lol
I popped by the hut and found these two hard at work
well-earned cuppa
Each of those lamps would cost 120 quid new and we have 13 of them.
So it’s well worth getting them working again.
How about some facts and figures? Camping is the best thing that we do in scouts and we recognise that with badges for the young people as they move through the sections.
2,464 nights away among our 155Â under 18s
That’s nearly 7 years away.
Between the cubs scouts and explorers:
- only 5 young people have not been on a residential experience with us (and of those 5, 3 joined this term)
- all the explorers have been on a residential.
- I don’t include the beavers in this bit because they have 12 who do not have nights away badges but Badger and Squirrel have a sleepover planned next month
29 beavers – 17 have a nights away badge
and a sleepover is planned in July so that will round up the rest of them
- 11 have 2 or more
Cub Camp 2012 Group Picture
41 cub – 38 have a nights away badge
- 32 have 5 or more
- 14 have 10 or more
55 scouts – 53 have a nights away badge
- 40 have 5 or more
- 38 have 10 or more
- 19 have 20 or more
- 3 have 35 or more
Switzerland Trip 2011 Group Photo
31 explorers – all 31 have a nights away badge
- 29 have 5 or more
- 25 have 10 or more
- 22 have 20 or more
- 12 have 35 or more
- 9 have 50 or more
- 7 have 75 more
- 1 has 121 nights away
And every single one of these has been run by our 100% volunteer team of leaders