Everyday Adventure for Beavers, Cubs, Scouts & Explorers in Beckenham - part of Bromley Scout District

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Fundraise as you shop – please do this


We’ll hear this week how much we raised on the litter picking, we’ll let you know as soon as we do.

In the meantine:

If every family does this and spends £250 on the internet between now and Christmas (including tesco, sainsbury’s, waitrose and asda), we would earn about £300 in a month ish. Just by sitting at a computer.

No effort fundraising:

We get a donation from hundreds of internet shops (all the big ones and many small ones) and it is so easy… you don’t need to register, fill in extra forms etc…

Simplest way

Go to our website: 5bs.org and click of the link at the bottom of the page

or look over there on the right… a big advert, just click click click >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

then just search the shop that you are buying from. It then sorts out all the payments etc…  why not bookmark our page for next time? Just use it as a portal to shop through.

Bookmark this ?

Never miss an opportunity

Download and install the toolbar and it will make sure that you never miss a chance to donate to the 5th and it offers you bargains and deals from the shops you visit.

Click here to get the toolbar

Please take the time to do this. It’s free money for us. Sometimes the donations are quite significant – i bought a bike rack in June from Evans for £140 and in return, we earned over £5 . Lots of £30 purchases add up to lots of £1 donations.  It costs nothing to you.

Bargains

with the toolbar, i have the opportunity when i visit a page to click ‘yes’ to donate to the 5th. When i do that, it pings me first to a page of voucher codes etc that could save me money. It’s been rather useful on occasion.

Please give this a try. As we say, it’s free money.

Explorers Karting in Crawley

Brilliant night. Such good fun and something that Phil only runs every couple of years because it is expensive but 14 explorers piled into the minibus for a night of go karting.

Dave was the winner (beating his Dad)

 

Phil bagged second place

Rob was v chuffed to make it onto the podium in 3rd place

Check the Video of the prizegiving:

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And here’s the whole mob

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Explorers Fake Wounds Special Effects Night

We pinched an idea from the scouts but the explorers did it with rather less mess.

Robert gave Molly a cut down her arm

Tom’s arm was pretty messed up

Mike got into character with the make-up

Check out all the photos here and there is a link at the bottom for the full size pics.

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Medieval fancy dress at MESH

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Here are our medieval explorers ready for the disco.

First night at MESH Camp

10 explorers from our Vultures ESU have joined 150 other explorers from across Bromley for the annual Mesh Camp.

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Camp was set up painlessly

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they tucked into noodles for dinner

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perfect explorer food, polystyrene pot with its own fork!

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the welcome ceremony was by the csmpfire

And now they are all in the marquee watching Monty Python and the Holy Grail

We hate waiting lists

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.  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.  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.

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