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There’s no mud
Up too late last night!!
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?
An excellent turnout from the explorers who got all their kit out ready for a weekend at gilwell. Thus will include 24hrs of continuous activities from Saturday to Sunday
checking they have all the poles for the mess tent.
They can be genuinely useful! It makes Phil’s job much easier when they all muck in.
Do you know what the worst job for a leader is? It’s telling kids that they can’t join the group.
Click the image to see our growth since 2002
We refuse a couple of kids per week and we hate it. Our waiting list is not something to be proud of. It doesn’t show how succesful we are, it just shows that there are dozens of kids who don’t have the benefit of all the fun, friendship and adventure that they deserve.
We know this. We do our best to get as many kids in as possible. Â We’ve nearly doubled in size in ten years.
We could open a new beaver colony, cub pack and scout troop tomorrow with the numbers on the list. Isn’t that awful? we have just taken 8 kids from the list into cubs and that gives us 165 youth members but we have another 96 kids aged from 6 to 14 who want to get in.
Have you seen this? It’s rather good
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We’ll keep trying to grow. We’ll keep recruiting adults and we’ll keep offering everyday adventure to as many kids as possible. Â For now, click on the tab marked links at the top of the page and you can choose to see the waiting list policy on there.
I dropped by to visit the explorers while they were setting up their hammocks for the night
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- The first one up,
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- Sooooo comfortable
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- Rob working on his knots. He must have had an awful scout leader… (gulp… oh the shame)
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- Backwoods cooking for dinner. Stew in a bag.
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- Nick lets his knots take the strain.
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- Looking good, although maybe the tarp is a bit high.
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- Sean loves his hammock
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.
The scouts brought their props and they’re making their videos.
and we even managed to show them their videos before they went home
Thanks to everybody who turned out for Church Parade this morning. There was a great turnout from all the sections and we looked very smart together.
It’s always good to welcome non-catholics at the parade and again we saw a mix of faiths from the beavers, cubs, scouts, explorers and leaders.
Special thanks to Oliver and Caitlin who read so well and to all our flag carriers and helpers at the offertry.