The Young Leaders (Boscage ESU) were challenged to organise and run an adventure camp for scouts and they certainly delivered an engaging and fun weekend. We arrived at Walesby Scout Camp https://www.walesbyforest.org.uk/ on Friday and set up camp with the scouts. Once tents were up, the Young Leaders organised a […]
Jo Wilson
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Renishaw Hall 3rd June 2022 To celebrate the Queens Platinum Jubilee we were invited to parade up the drive to Renishaw Hall. We were joined by RAF cadets and Brownies before planting 3 trees (one for the cadets, one for the Brownies and one for the Scout Group.) It was […]
Mission 1 and other modules. Another night exploring young leader modules for the Young Leader award https://www.scouts.org.uk/volunteers/running-your-section/running-an-explorer-unit/explorer-scout-young-leaders-scheme/ We had 6 from 6th Eckington Scout Group (Boscage ESU) attending with 4 from 5th Dronfield. It was great to have some many working through the modules.
April 2022 The older scouts and some of our explorer scout young leaders (ESYL) joined our Expedition Camp at Whitely Wood. The ESYLs did two days hiking across the Peak National Park with their expedition rucksacks and were joined on the second day with two teams of scouts looking to […]
Two of our young people have been selected to go to the WSJ23 and last weekend they had their first weekend training camp at Spitewinter in Chesterfield. The weekend proved to be cold and even snowy but there was much fun and friendship and the camp provided a great opportunity […]
We got the opportunity to visit the Warhammer shop in Chesterfield on March 2nd to work on our Model Builder badge. Scouts made two Warhammer characters and got to play a couple of games with Warhammer pieces. The scouts enjoyed the session and next week we get to paint […]
This was a challenging camp. It started with concerns about being able to even go as Derbyshire was in an amber warning for high winds. The site reccie and a change of camp pitch (plus some Yorkshire sunshine) meant the camp was a go… and 9 scouts and 5 explorers […]
We were delighted that one of our scouts achieved the highest scouting award recently. Huge achievement. Brian, GSL, presented her with the Chief Scout Gold Award certificate at the recent executive meeting. A pleasant reminder why so many volunteer and give their time so freely (and it’s fun).
January 2022 Four Explorer Scouts attended the training for Module A and started their journey as Young Leaders. It was great to meet up with other new young leaders at Dronfield.
It was great to be out as a scout group and parade through Eckington on Sunday 14th November 2021. We are proud to report that 12 scouts and 2 explorer scouts attended as part of the 6th Eckington Scout Group (with beavers and cubs too.) After the service at […]
