East Grinstead District Scouts

On Sunday 25th January over 40 awards were presented to young members of East Grinstead, Beavers, Cubs, Scouts, Explorers and Leaders. The awards recognise the experiences and developments young people have made during their time in the Scout Movement. Particularly notable was the presentation of the Queen’s Scout Award which is the highest award a young person can achieve and demonstrates a strong dedication and commitment to scouting and the wider community.

During May 15th-17th The South of England Showground in Ardingly plays host to the 2009 County Cub Camp dubbed Camp-A-Lot. As you may infer from the name the theme this year is the Knights of the Round Table.

As always these county camps require months of planning, and as the quest draws closer we are looking for adults to help with site services for the event in such matters as car parking, security, set up & take down.

Leaders, Parents, Explorers, Scouts, Cubs and Beavers. If you have something you would like to see on the website, please get in touch with webmaster{at}egscouts.org(.)uk and we’ll get them published for you.

Leaders, why not ask your young people to draw or write something for the website as an evening activity. You can either type, it up, scan it in, or you can use that old fashioned stuff you write on made from trees, and we’ll do the rest!

Its a bright sunny thursday, quite the contrast to last nights spectacular weather.

The stage show was in full swing with the disco drawing a huge crowd despite the thunder and lightning in the distance. Then it hit WS2008. A torrential downpoor that thankfully lasted only a few minutes. Unfortunatly it was enough to cause the stage to end the evenings festivities, but it didn’t dampen anyones spirits with chants of “oggy-oggy-oggy”, and “aint no flys” echoing round the campsite.

Scouts can apply for a slice of £2.28m that supermarket chain Waitrose will donate to nearly 7,000 community projects in the next 12 months.

The money is being awarded to local charities as part of Waitrose’s plans to support more local causes.

Please see the following document for a list of forthcoming international events and opportunities here

One of the oldest scout groups in the country has just celebrated its 100th Birthday with a weekend camp involving members of every section in the district.

Members of the 1st East Grinstead Scout Group proudly celebrated with a weekend of fun an activities at Blacklands Farm.

The annual District Soapbox Derby was run on 9th September at Imberhorn Lower School. Many Teams from the district took part and everyone involved had a fantastic time. All Pictures The results were: Beavers 1st – Turner Hill and Crawley Down A – Trophy awarded 2nd – Turner Hill and Crawley Down B, 3rd – [...]