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 […]
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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 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 […]
We held our AGM on the evening of Friday 19th June 2020 in a unique style. Because of Lockdown we held our AGM using Zoom for the first time. If you weren’t there then contact your child’s section leader to receive a link to a recording of this event!
Our Scout Group joined in with other uniformed services to parade from the top of Eckington to the Parish Church on Remembrance Sunday.