Apologies for the lack of a summer camp blog. The site had no mobile signal and there were no hotspots locally. Â Hopefully you kept an eye on our Storify page that we’ve just updated again. Instagram pics uploaded occasionally when the wind changed and our phones got a bit of connection, here it is if you missed it (photos and videos to follow during the week):
Tag: nights away
Congratulations to brother and sister Frank and Grace who both reached big milestones in the Nights Away Scheme last week.
Grace receives her 20 Nights Away Badge
Frank receives his 35 Nights Away
B-R-A-V-O to both of them
We’ve been counting every night away for every member of The Fifth since they joined, Our beavers, cubs, scouts and explorers have completed a magnificent 2,869 Nights Away between them. This Summer Camp, we’ve been able to give out a big batch of badges this summer to scouts and young leaders who’ve earned them.
75 Nights Away
Sean Hubbard
50 Nights Away
Thomas Colville
Tom Martin
35 Nights Away
Luke Bale
Luke Cavalli
Michael Frost
Samuel Hilton
Charlie Stratford
George Wisniewski-Smith
20 Nights Away
William Andrews
Rory Galley
Matthew Martin
Eoin McLaughlin
Gina Percival
Oliver Ridge
Molly Shooter
Luke Williamson
Thomas Wisniewski-Smith
10 Nights Away
Lizzie Barber
Alfie Bashford
Michael Gough
Billy Groves
Oliver Meade
Caitlin Mullane
Teddy Toynton
5 Nights Away
Louise Mascall
Grace Mullane
Cormac Shipley
Congratulations to all of them!
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