Scouts

Diary

April
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Thu 24th: First troop night of term (parents please sign up on helpers rota)


May
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Thu 1st: Troop night

Thu 8th: Troop night

Thu 15th: Troop night

Thu 29th: NO Scouts, half term

Fri 30th - Sat 1st June: Sailing weekend, 'Pioneer'


June
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Thu 5th: NO Scouts, half term

Thu 12th: Troop night

Thu 19th: Troop night

Fri 20th - Sun 22nd: Patrol Camping Weekend

Thu 26th: Troop night

Fri 27th - Sun 29th: Malvern Challenge


July
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Thu 3rd: Troop night

Thu 10th: Last troop night of term

Sun 13th: Raft Building

What's the point of Scouts? We help our Scouts grow in confidence, integrity and self-reliance, teamwork and leadership ability. We do this through challenge, adventure and fun!

What kind of things do we do?

* Car maintenance (Mechanic badge), with the guys in the service department at Phoenix Vauxhall.
* We *very* *nearly* got the 'polar badge' for camping at below freezing point, but it wasn't quite cold enough!
* Building catapults.
* Scuba diving.
* Cooking (apple fritters)
* Rock climbing
* Mapping and navigation, night hike on Wimbledon Common
* Lived on board a 90-foot sailing ship for a weekend. Sailed round the Thames Estuary and out to sea. Steered the ship, set and trimmed the sails, climbed the mast, went out on the bowsprit.
* Made shadow puppets and performed plays with them.
* Backwoods cooking: chocolate oranges
* Camp training: learning to cook on wood fires, gas stoves, petrol stoves.
* Rock climbing: scaling the natural sandstone rock face at Harrison's Rocks.
* A day of watersports at the Dockland Scout Project
* Went to the Malvern Challenge with 3000 other Scouts, completed the activity hike and did loads of other activities!
* Juggling, Poi, and other circus skills
* Quad bikes
* Low ropes - teamwork and confidence games
* Camp cook skills: menu planning, shopping to a budget and cooking a weekend's meals for a group over a wood fire.
* Tie-dying t-shirts
* Cooking: stuffed tomatoes
* Mountain biking
* First aid
* Mini-catapults
* Orienteering
* Making friends with snakes, spiders, geckos, and loads more (the python was called Monty!)
* Origami
* GLSW Night hike and overnight camp
* Cooking: Shepherd's pie
* Life skills: ironing a shirt, sewing
* Hiking on South Devon's coastal path and on Dartmoor.
* Dinghy sailing.
* BBQ on the beach.
* Paragliding!
* Teambuilding games
* Cooking a pancake (but using only a candle flame!)
* Making bird feeders
* Cooking eggy bread
* Patrol barbeque competition
* Aviation activities: Flying a light aircraft, visiting a working airfield, visiting the control tower, pre-flight aircraft checks, airfield safety and signals, building model aircraft, flight simulators.

Want to join us?

We currently have spaces for new members, aged 10½ to 14. Come along and meet us! See the New Members page for more info.

Scout Troop: Leaders

Andy Ellam, Scout Leader
andrew.ellam@8thwimbledon.org

Matt Hunt, Assistant Scout Leader

Lloyd Mead, Assistant Scout Leader

Nicola Golding, Warranted Helper

Badge Info

For those Scouts who want to know the requirements for particular badges:
- Membership Award
- The 8 Challenge Badges
- The Activity Badges
- The Chief Scout's Gold Award
- Group Awards
- Position of badges on uniform

Pictures of the Scouts, on Scouting activities

(All pictures are shown with permission from parents / guardians).

Making friends with snakes and spiders from around the world. Click here for more photos

8th Wimbledon Scouts at the Greater London South West county night hike, 2007. Click here for more pictures

8th Wimbledon Scouts Easter Camp 2007: South Devon. Click here for more photos and info

8th Wimbledon Scouts go paragliding - click here for more photos. (May 2007)

8th Wimbledon Scouts flying a light aircraft at Cambridge Gliding Centre, courtesy of Herts Scouts. Click here for more photos. (July 2007)

8th Wimbledon Scouts Watersports Day 2007, courtesy of the Dockland Scout Project. Click here for more photos.