Here are our medieval explorers ready for the disco.
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10 explorers from our Vultures ESU have joined 150 other explorers from across Bromley for the annual Mesh Camp.
Camp was set up painlessly
they tucked into noodles for dinner
perfect explorer food, polystyrene pot with its own fork!
the welcome ceremony was by the csmpfire
And now they are all in the marquee watching Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Tonight we spent an hour working with knives and with lots of care and concentration, we didn’t have any cuts! We’re halfway to making spike trolls… inspired by the Wonderful Whittlin’ Blog
Next week we paint them (and remember to bring a decent camera)
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Last Wednesday, the explorers made their own pizza dough and toppings and they all made something edible! Check out the photos below for a really successful evening, they even got their dough to rise.
Maybe they just need a few more washing up lessons but this was a great night for the leaders and explorers.
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Today was an important day for The Fifth as three of our leaders were awarded their Wood Badge by Gary the Deputy District Commissioner. The beads are the symbol of completed leader training.
The first Wood Badges were made from beads taken from a necklace that had belonged to a Zulu chief named Dinizulu, which Baden-Powell had found during his time in the Zululand in 1888. When B-P was looking for some token to award to people who went through the Gilwell training course he remembered the Dinizulu necklace and the leather thong given to him by an elderly African at Mafeking. Â He took two of the smaller beads, drilled them through the centre, threaded them onto the thong and called it the Wood Badge.
(apologies for the dreadful photo quality)
Adam, Keeley and Andy renewed their promise
Traditionally, the beads are transferred from one leader to another so Gary took them from around his own neck before awarding them to our leaders.
Andy receives his wood badge.
Andy’s late father was a leader at the 5th for many years, he was Assistant Group Scout Leader, Assistant Scout Leader and an Assistant Deputy Commissioner, today would have been a proud day for Dave.
Keeley (Akela) receives her wood badge.
Adam (bagheera) Receives his wood badge
Big thanks to Gary for coming over to do this. You can find out all about the history of the wood badge here (opens as pdf, right click, save as)
We’ve just sent this email to all our parents:
1) Thank you to everybody who came along and supported the Fun Day on Saturday. After the first count, we had raised over £2,000 and it’s still rising!
If you’d like to make a donation to The Fifth, you can do so here https://mydonate.bt.com/charities/5thbeckenhamsouthscoutgroup
2) It’s the group AGM on Monday 1st October at 20.40.
One week left to claim. It is all in the top hut, we have so much stuff it is ridiculous.
There’s been plenty of work happening at the scout hut this summer. Here’s a taste of some of it.Â
Have you got your tickets yet?
Saturday 22nd Septmber 12-4pm @ the scout hut and grounds
Tickets: £5 adults, £3 kids includes food
please email [email protected] for tickets, info etc or buy your tickets below
There’ll be a BBQ, pimms tent, archery, face painting, bouncy castle, crockery smashing and more
Prizes
please get in touch with keeley if you can offer a raffle prize [email protected] or have some inspiration for how to make the day even better.
Profit matching:
Do you work for a company that offers profit matching? (Many banks do this) Would you help us to double out money please?
Please invite family and friends to make this day a success.
We have to raise every penny that we spend and we either spend that money on boring stuff like utilities and insurance or cool stuff like go karts, archery kit etc! Nothing is wasted.
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It’s that time again…
Running a scout group is very very expensive and we rely on subs to cover all the basics.
Subs are £48 per term and need to be paid by half term (Friday November 2nd) – please pay online if you have a debit or credit card.
All the info for subs payments etc is online
Check out  the video above to see how we have been spending your money,