Category: News

Camp Quantock – Summer Camp 2012

Date: 28th July to 5th August 2012

This year we were camping in Somerset.

Clay Pigeon Shoot

Date: 7th June 2012

Our Scouts and Senior Scouts were invited to take a day shooting clays in the Kent farmland by kind arrangement for our Group by the West Kent Shooting School. We did this some years ago and it was an excellent day out.

Shooting pictures to follow!

“Tom Sawyer & Huck Finn” Bivvi Camp

Date: 24th & 25th March 2012

Consisted of building and sleeping under a large Bivvi, as well as some backwoods cooking instruction.

“At the going down of the Sun and in the morning, We will remember them.“

Every year, a local group gets asked to arrange and lead the local Remembrance day parade service. Pioneer Scout Troop and Mountford Troop were asked to lead this year’s service at St Andrew’s Church, Frimley. It has been quite a few years since we were last asked to lead the local service and we wanted to focus on a slightly different view of Remembrance.

At the heart of our service was The Royal British Legion, the charity that makes and distributes the Poppies for the Poppy Appeal every year, as well as being our national symbol for Remembrance. We decided we should use this year’s service to highlight their work and heighten awareness of this incredibly hardworking charity.

Before we could write a service about the charity, we wanted to make sure we understood their work fully and allow us to highlight some of the lesser known facts. After contacting them about the service they arranged for them to spend an evening with the Scouts, this would include a representative to talk about how the charity operates today as well as a veteran that has been helped by them. Unfortunately, due to time restraints we had to delay this visit until after our service. However, the charity sent us a full information pack about them and were happy to answer any questions we had at any time.

During our first discussion about the service we wanted the other groups attending to take part, as the charity we were discussing is very active then we thought we should at least draw a parallel in the way we conducted our service!

Therefore, we designed a giant Poppy!

Above was our Poppy, the defining red Poppy leaves have been detached. On the back of each Poppy leaf we wrote two lines of the poem In Flander’s Field.
Our idea behind this was that we handed these out to members of the Scouting congregation to bring up and read during the service. After reading their part of the poem they could then attach their leaf to the giant Poppy that would be placed in front of the choir stands.

This was our complete Poppy pictured at the front of the choir stands. As planned, each leaf was attached during the service by a member of the congregation after reading out the small passage on the back.

We hope everybody enjoyed our service and left knowing a lot more about The Royal British Legion.

Pictures from our annual Bonfire Night. As usual there were fireworks, hot dogs and hot drinks!

A big thank you goes out to all who helped on the night and those who donated, without donations, this event could not go ahead.

After one weekend of bramble clearance, the new fence could finally be built!! It has been a long time coming but even for a simple project like this there are a number of logistical problems that need to be solved, for example: what weekend are the most people free? When can the fencing supplier deliver? how long will it take to get the old fence down? The list is almost endless, which is why the result is even more pleasing!