hampshire scout news (hsn) march 2014
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Scout News
March 2014
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Activity Leadership Courses 2014
Join our Team Management Role OpportunityDistrict Commissioner City of Portsmouth
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About usHampshire Scouts provides adventurous activities and personal development opportunities for over 16,000 young people aged 6-25, promoting the physical, intellectual, social and spiritual well-being of the individual, helping them achieve their full potential.
In Scouting, we believe that young people develop most when they are ‘learning by doing,’ when they are given responsibility, work in teams, take acceptable risks and think for themselves.
Join usTo join the adventure of Scouting whether as a Adult or Young person fill in the form at: www.Scouts.org.uk/join or email: [email protected] or phone us on: 023 8084 7847
hAmpShire Scout mountaineering teamwww.hsmt.org.uk
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4 March 2014
AdamCounty CommissionerHampshire Scouting
This year’s awesome Basingstoke Gang Show featured a scene from Bugsy Malone, including this song…
“We could’ve have been anything that we wanted to be…”
…and along with enjoying the show, I started thinking how this phrase captures the spirit of Scouting.
Scouting is about offering young people the starting point to be anything that they want to be. Mountaineers, teachers, dancers, leaders, youth workers, musicians, firefighters, doctors – the list goes on. You don’t have to be good at an activity or have tried it before – you can have a go in a friendly environment and then take it as far as you want to reach.
Many of the young people I introduced to hillwalking as a Scout Leader and Venture Scout Leader have gone on to summit far higher mountains than I would ever climb. And that’s part of the point of being a volunteer leader – you provide the introduction in a safe environment and then encourage the young people follow their dreams.
Of course, we need to have the experience and permits to lead the activities. And, just as importantly, we need to have the skills to encourage young people to move outside their comfort zone, and the patience to help them bounce back from the failures and try again.
The energy, enthusiasm and talent of the Basingstoke Gang Show members showed that they really can be anything that they want to be. And I’m sure we will be seeing many of them on other stages in the future.
As we move through another exciting year in Hampshire Scouting, let’s redouble our efforts to help even more young people enjoy even better adventures.
“We could’ve been anything that we wanted to be…Yes, that decision is ours”
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Looking for a new challenge in Scouting? Have you thought about taking on a management role in Scouting? We are currently looking to appoint a new District Commissioner for the City of Portsmouth District. The role involves managing the development and provision of Scouting in the City of Portsmouth District.If you might be interested or know someone else who might be interested, you can find out more details and a nomination pack on the Volunteer Opportunities page of the County web site: www.hampshirescouts.org.uk/?id=534. Alternatively, if you would just like to chat to someone about the role, call Paul Wilkinson on 02392 268350.
Closing date for nominations is the end of March 2014
JoiN our teAm mANAGemeNt role opportuNityDistrict Commissioner - City of Portsmouth
Do your scouts get enough activity? Yes, we know, you haven’t got time to take them.So why not let their parents take them to a Scout activity! Kayaking at Stoke Lake is run by a great team of Scout qualified kayak coaches and is very inexpensive. From May to October there are courses at all levels on Saturday mornings and Wednesday evenings. And there are taster sessions on Monday, Tuesday, Friday and some Thursday evenings. For more details please email [email protected]
KAYAKING IS A GREAT SKILL AND GREAT FUN KAYAKING IS A GREAT SKILL AND GREAT FUN
Julie Mair - Deputy County Training Manager
Donna Tew - Local Training Manager
New Appointments
in hampshire
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6 March 2014
LauncH of HampsHire Badge:This month as well as giving you further details about our Hampshire Scouting event on Friday 9th May, we want to also ‘launch’ our Hampshire Badge below. Which has been designed by one of our Explorer Scouts – Stephen Smith.
As you will be aware from previous articles, the County is joining in with the Country in marking the Centenary of WW1 and running a WW1 project throughout the year. A major part of this project is a Service of commemoration in Winchester Cathedral on Friday 9th May 2014 and we do hope that all Districts will be well represented at this Service.
The Hampshire Badge above, will be available to everyone to wear who is attending the County Service on 9th May in Winchester. All members who actively undertake and involve
themselves in an activity related to WW1 will be able to order a complimentary badge. Those who are not undertaking any type of activity/project will be able to purchase the badge at £1 and all profits will go to a services charity to be chosen by the Lord Lieutenant. The details of how you will qualify for a complimentary badge and where to apply will be published separately. However the principle will be that you need to complete an activity based on service in WW1 and send in a short report on that activity.
We are particularly looking for you to undertake something which is relevant to your locality and Scouting. For example how did the war affect Scouting in your District or Group? What did the Scouts do in your locality to support the War on the home front? Do you have any records of Scouts who went off to war and what they experienced?
In previous years we have also organised a parade of flags, however on this occasion with the County Commissioner’s approval, we have agreed to have a series of visual activities (tableaus)to entertain and
inform those attending the Service. These are to be ‘staged’ in the Cathedral Outer Close.
These activities will take place both before and after the Service, with those before the Service representing aspects of Scouting pre WW1 and those after the Service representing Scouting post WW1. It is hoped that each District will take part in one of these activities, however as space and activities maybe limited Districts have been grouped together.
The Districts have been sent a separate paper giving guidance on the activities we suggest are produced. This including the grouping of Districts and the themes of the activities. Districts can choose to demonstrate any aspect within their suggested theme.
If you have any additional questions or want to talk anything through, please do not hesitate to talk to any of the following; Laura Betteridge, Ollie Murrey, Dave Pannell, David Griffiths or Martin Rudd.
WW1 HampsHire scouting
Martin Rudd, WW1 Group.
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This was the first visit of a Scout Group to the newly opened centre and they were really pleased to see so many Scouts come along. We had about 30 people from 17th Fareham including leaders.
We were met by Sheik Fazle (who was once a Scout in Kenya) who gave a really warm welcome to the centre and interesting introduction to what it means to be a Muslim. He explained to the Scouts that being a Muslim is a way of life and is about how you treat yourself, others and the environment which is key to everything in Islam. Similar values that are given in the Scout promise.
He kindly allowed us to invest a new Scout, Theo, and we conducted the ceremony in the main prayer room. It made the investiture one of the most memorable we have ever done. Clapping is not permitted in the prayer room so to celebrate the ceremony Sheik Fazle then led the appropriate response in the prayer room which was ‘Glory to God’ repeated several times to show our appreciation and welcome to Theo. We were then provided with some refreshments and each Scout was presented with a pen as a memento of the visit.
The Scouts behaved impeccably throughout the evening and showed respect for the place of worship and Islamic dress code. All the 17th Fareham leaders were rightly proud of the Scouts.
Yours in Scouting
Nigel Baber17th Fareham Scouts
viSit to Al mAhdi moSque iN FArehAm
8 March 2014
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On Friday 31st January 2014 Cubs from 1st Aldershot Scout troop were invited to join Scouts from the same unit for a night of activities and to watch three of their fellow Cubs go up to Scouts in a ‘moving on’ ceremony.
The evening began with the three Cubs gaining their last awards with Cubs, crossing a rope bridge inside the hut (especially pioneered by leaders earlier in the evening). Their journey across the bridge took them onwards towards their new extended Scouting family. They were then led towards the Scouts.
After crossing the bridge Kendra, James and Shannan swapped their Cubs jumpers for their new Scouts shirts. The three young people were to take their promise and become invested as Scouts (eager to gain new badges and awards. After the investiture the evening continued with group games and some joint Scouting activities; including the chance to freshen up on first-aid and knots).
It was a great night for team building and a chance for the younger Cubs to get to know some of the Scouts. The Cubs and Scouts had a great time working and playing together for the night and will be looking forward to a joint weekend group camp in May and the 1st Aldershot tri-annual visit to Aber-gavenny in the Summer.
If you would like to know more about 1st Aldershot Scouts please contact: [email protected], 1st Aldershot Scouts can also both be found on Twitter @1stAldershot
www.1staldershot.co.uk
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Cubs, Beavers and Scouts at the 1st Winchester Scout Group all joined forces on Saturday 21st February 2014 to raise money for vital repairs to their hut. The event, a twenty-four hour games marathon, was held at their headquarters in Weeke and was attended by members across the Scout Group, aged 6 to 14 to raise as much money as possible.
“We are months away from our goal of a major overhaul of our building” said Scout Group Chairman, Dave Kesby, “but still many thousands of pounds short of our target so this event will be a great boost to our momentum”. For the Scouts, the deadline to open the newly designed building will not be a moment too soon. The hut suffered major damp problems at periods during the record wet weather and a raised floor and new roof are just some of the improvements being made by September.
Over the 24 hour period, 61 young people took part, of which 19 played games throughout the night. These were supported by 13 leaders and parents. Computer game consoles were set up in different parts of the hall along with table tennis and table top games such as Monopoly. They took turns in playing the games. There was also a rest room for relaxing, sleeping and watching videos. The marathon raised over £1,800.00.
Group Scout Leader, Bruce Martin, said “Once again this shows that, given the opportunity, our young people can rise to the occasion and achieve a magnificent result”.
Photograph features Left to Right Jacob - who raised the most sponsorship of £115 – Lawrie, Tom, James and Beaver Leader Rhiain SoffletFor further information, please contact Steve Feeney on 07840 400 225 ([email protected])
24 hourS to SAve our Scout hut!
10 March 2014
Cost£999 per person. Includes return coach to Adelboden, Switzerland, all activities, indoor accommodation, food, equipment hire, activity lessons, travel insurance (including winter sports) and expedition necker.
Do I need to have skiing or snowboarding experience?You do not need any prior experience for any of the above activities. Lessons will be run for skiing and snowboarding.
How can I find out more?Visit our website and you can Find Out More about the local launch presentations around the County. You can also Register Your Interest and you will receive the latest news direct from the organising team.
What is it?A one week expedition to Our Chalet International Guide Centre, Adelboden in the heart of the Swiss Alps, for Hampshire Explorer Scouts alongside Hampshire Scout Network.
When is it?February 2016 Half Term week
Who can go?There are a limited amount of places available to both Explorer Scouts & Scout Network. You will need to be aged 14-24 on the 12 February 2016.
What activities?
- Skiing/snowboarding (including lessons)
- Cross Country Skiing
- Curling
- Sledging
- Snow shoe hiking
- Igloo building
- Ice skating
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The first full training weekend for the Iceland trip took place over the weekend of 15th -16th February at the amazing headquarters of The Diamond Centre, formerly known as Tadley Den. Despite the weather and sleeping indoors, 22 of the 26 members of the unit worked hard over the weekend, making decisions and cooking for themselves.
The unit is now known as the Hampshire Icecubes, and we have chosen a logo, a unit badge, the programme and started discussing items of unit clothing.
As ever a first meeting starts with everyone being very quiet, but by the end of the two days, all the unit members were chatting away like long lost friends.
Members of the unit have elected themselves onto planning teams, so far to include the programme planning team, menu planning, and communications.
A great start to an exciting adventure, we still have 10 spaces available to any young person who will be an Explorer Scout at the time of the trip which will be between the dates 25th July to 8th August. Contact: [email protected] for more details.
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12 March 2014
This January saw HSX hit the road again. Kick starting the year in style! With a weekend of hillwalking in the Brecon Beacons. After the rain that has been lashing down hard on the hills, there surely couldn’t have been any more left in the clouds… right?
Buoyed by our eternal optimism eight members of HSX convened at Ferny Crofts Activity Centre and headed for the hills! Our first challenge of the weekend was to locate the hut we would be staying in, situated on the outskirts of Caehopkin. Not normally a problem the navigational skills of MrTomTom, however the dense Welsh hill fog resulted in us overshooting the hut first time round!
Waking up early on Saturday morning we had a hearty breakfast of Bacon sandwiches, before putting the final preparations together for our wildcamp. Leaving the van round the corner from the Scout hut we departed for the hills.
The day started off well with a gentle wind keeping everyone nice and cool, and we slowly made our way uphill through the woods. Which was slow going with heavy packs and muddy tracks underfoot. Getting traction was difficult in places, with several members deciding to ‘check gravity was still working’, getting themselves coated in mud in the process, much to the hilarity of everyone else.
The higher uphill we got and the worse the visibility got, and the group was soon enveloped in ‘pea soup’, not being able to see more then 100m in front of us in places. This turned out to be an excellent opportunity for some of the more experienced members to really teach the others about the importance of micro-navigation. We used several different strategies over the next couple of hours, picking our way across the open hillside, hand-railing boundaries and watercourses, as well as navigating to distinctive features, counting our paces and timings.We soon found the footpath we were aiming for, a motorway in comparison to what we’d just been walking along, and made good progress. At this point to weather took a slight turn for the worse and we were soon forced to stop and Gore-Tex up. The winds picked up, and what started off as a light drizzle, soon developed into a full on hail storm, with ice being whipped horizontally across our path.
As quickly as the weather closed in, it was gone again, leaving the group with a blustery, but bright, walk down to our wildcamp spot at Llyn Y Fan Fach. Upon our arrival we sorted the tents out, pitching them into the wind for extra stability, before diving into the survival shelter to prepare our gourmet dinner of soup, couscous and chorizo.
After dark we headed out for an hour of night navigation practice, before popping back into the hut for a quick hot chocolate and Kit Kat, followed by bed. During the course of the night the winds decided to strengthen significantly, which combined with a change direction, caused havoc with the tents. For much of the night the
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winds battered the tents, with the fabric of the tent enveloping the unlucky individual who was sleeping on the windward side, and was only a couple of inches above the person in the middle of the tent! As a result every time you’d drift off to sleep you’d get rudely woken up by the tent, or a pole, to the face! Around 3am the porch poles decided that they’d had enough of holding the porch in place, and two of the three tents poles broke, resulting in the front of the tents flapping around for the rest of the night, even after being pegged out and weighted down.
Eventually 7am rolled round and we quickly developed a method of taking the tents down in +50mph gusts. This involved two people venturing outside, while a third person, plus kit, stayed in the tent to act as a weight. The brave souls outside would take the outer of the tent off, running it into the hut, before coming back to take the poles and pegs off the inners, at which point the person being used as ballast would dive out. They would then run the inners into the hut to start sorting kit out.
Tents down, kit sorted, the group warmed up with a hot chocolate, porridge and brioche and soon got ready to set off for home. Given the strengths of the winds, it was decided that the best course of action would be to use the pre-planned escape route, dropping height by heading down the main track from the reservoir to the Red Lion Youth Hostel, Llandeusant.
Upon arriving at the hostel we met with a group of walkers who were heading off for a walk to see the waterfalls along the NantLlech at Coelbren, approximately 3km from the hut where we left the van. Fortune was in our favour and the guys had one seat left in their car, a luxury Jaguar XF, so Chris was chauffeur driven in style on the 30 minute journey back to the bus. Collecting the bus, Chris headed back to get the others, who had been killing time playing board games in the hostel.
We had a quick stop off at the hut we stayed in on Friday, to get into dry clothes and sort group kit out, before hitting the trail back to Hampshire.
We all had a great, if not slight wet, weekend, which certainly blew the cobwebs away!
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14 March 2014
27th March 2014 at 7.30pmall Network Leaders & Network Chairs
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9th - 11th May 2014(Beavers 9th - 10th May)
Cost £20 Beavers £25 everybody else, including foodDeadline 23rd April 2014, places are limited on a first come
first serve basis, online booking will open February.
Featuring:A well known special guest
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This will be a fun packed weekend of Scouting activities including fire lighting and cooking outdoors.
The event will be open to: Beavers 71/2+, Cubs 10+, Scouts 13+,
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9th - 11th May 2014(Beavers 9th - 10th May)
Cost £20 Beavers £25 everybody else, including foodDeadline 23rd April 2014, places are limited on a first come
first serve basis, online booking will open February.
Featuring:A well known special guest
Competition prizes
This will be a fun packed weekend of Scouting activities including fire lighting and cooking outdoors.
The event will be open to: Beavers 71/2+, Cubs 10+, Scouts 13+,
Explorers and Network.
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16 March 2014
Well, it’s been almost a month now since I completed my 18,000
mile unsupported world cycle. I’m still trying to find my feet and get back into the swing of things at home. It’s quite a good feeling when I look back and think I’ve now completed everything I set out to do seven years ago, after I had a motorcycle accident. I am now the first and only person to have rowed the Atlantic Ocean, summited Everest and cycled around the world, which is now being labelled as a “super triathlon”. For me personally, I’m just pleased I completed it and managed to make it home in one piece. I’m also very conscious that there are other people out there who are doing great things in the world of adventuring.
As I’ve rowed, climbed and cycled my way around the world, I’ve realised that human beings really are amazing. Wherever you go, there will always be someone around that will be there to support you in some way, shape or form, and you won’t even realise it until you need their help. I’m often asked what drove me to undertake this triple header challenge. I think the honest answer has always been the fact that I’ve loved being slightly different and I knew when I was younger that my brain functioned slightly differently from most people. It’s the combination of how I felt when I had a motorcycle accident seven years ago and having my mobility temporarily taken away, that gave me much more of an appreciation of life. I’ve been very fortunate to have met
some very successful people over the last few years in my quest for sponsorship and I have noticed one similarity with successful people in general: their appreciation of time. You cannot buy time back no matter how wealthy you are, so my appreciation of time has changed massively. My passion for inspiring young people to pursue their own goals was another driving force behind the decision to undertake these challenges. Rowing the Atlantic was just an incredible adventure. The isolation, and the feeling you get when you’re in the middle of an ocean and the closest people to you are in the International Space Station seventy miles above you is mind-blowing! Obviously it can get pretty rough out there with waves and swirl regularly matching the
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size of a two or three storey building, but you gain a lot of confidence in the boat. I’m often asked what it was like rowing for twelve hours a day. Honestly, it went pretty quickly. Listening to your favourite tunes on the iPod, with a fantastic tail wind blowing you along and the glorious sunrises and sunsets all make it a truly magical place. Although, I guess the enjoyment of being in this situation is really dependent on the person, I personally loved being in the Atlantic Ocean. Everest was very different. You are generally never on your own and there is a lot of down time. Compared to a world cycle or an ocean row, it’s all over relatively quickly. I remember leaving Camp Four at ten o’clock at night, climbing under head torch all the way up to the balcony, where I stopped and swapped my oxygen out. I’ll never forget how amazing the night sky was that evening: shooting stars flying across the horizon with dazzling stars and distant galaxies lighting up the sky. It took me the best part of ten hours to make it up to the summit and on the 16th May 2011, I was standing on the
highest point on earth. There was just my Sherpa, Dorje and I; it was an incredible, surreal situation to be in. It was on the descent that things got a little tougher for me. Generally on the ascent, you have a lot of adrenaline running through you which really helps get you up. That adrenaline soon left my body when I reached the summit and the realisation hit me that I was only really half way. I still needed to get down and I was as far away from anybody as I could possibly be. Gravity pulls you back down so the effort required to stop yourself tumbling down the mountain is quite intense. I also had a lung infection, which I didn’t know at the time, so that was making things even harder. Thanks to Dorje, to whom I will forever be indebted, I eventually made it back down to safety. To this day, I have never experienced anything close to that level of physical effort and sheer exhaustion. Cycling around the world was tough in its own way. Averaging over one hundred miles a day, every day, for half a year, is a challenge but amazingly, it’s
not as physically demanding as you might think. For me, it was the mental challenge of getting back on the bike day in, day out, come rain, snow, high winds and tiredness. When I rowed the Atlantic I had a very simple philosophy and that was, as long as I don’t row in circles and if I keep going, by default, I’m going to run out of ocean and reach land eventually. I used the same principle whilst cycling. No matter how I felt, if I kept those pedals turning, I would eventually cover the 18,000 miles and make it home. It’s the simple mindset that works for me as it’s very easy to overcomplicate things in your brain. “your body will achieve what the mind believes” – this is a real cliché but very true! One of the things that kept me going was the wonderful interaction I had with locals as I passed through cities and villages on my travels. Above all, the most important thing I learnt was just how much you can achieve when you really are prepared to push yourself and not give up. Much more than you think!
You can still donate at: www.justgiving.com/captainketch
18 March 2014
iS comiNG!Compass is a powerful set of online tools with which we will all manage our Scouting administrative activities in one place. It can share access to that information with relevant Scouting colleagues and offer a high level of data security. The system streamlines many tasks currently performed to manage Scouting so you spend less time on administration. Tasks supported by the system include:
• Awardingandmaintainingbadges/awards,
• Assigningrolesandmanagingyoungpeopleandadultsleaving,joiningortransferring,
• Producingreportsanddistributionlistsusingmemberdataincludingcompletingthe national Scout census,
• Managingtrainingandevents,
• Issuing/renewingpermitsandvettingchecks,
• Creating,closingormergingSectionsandGroups.
System testing is now well underway at Headquarters and the first Counties will start using Compass in July. In Hampshire, we are planning to migrate the whole County to Compass in early October. Once we have a training Compass system available to us, presentations and training will be rolled-out across the County in advance of the October migration.
In the mean time, Districts have been asked to check and clean up all the District and Group information that exists on the current membership system. This will be automatically migrated into Compass, so it needs to be right.
For up to date information on Compass, visit the Project Compass page under the Adults section of the County web site.
mike KerriganHampshire Compass Championstrategy@ scouts-hants.org.uk
More & more Groups are asking for archery sessions but still don’t know who to ask and who their local archery leader is.
So we are putting together a contact list of archery leaders who can go to Groups or Groups can come to them for an
archery session.
This will entail your contact details being posted on the County web site and being circulated to Districts so Groups
can contact you directly and ask for your help.
If you feel you can offer your services please email….
Tim Beeching: Hampshire Scout Archery Club
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April
20
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2014
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it As
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3 Ap
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2014
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13 A
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2014
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pers
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BC
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stle
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0 Ap
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2014
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amps
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0 Ap
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2014
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20
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19-2
0 Ap
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2014
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26 A
pril
2014
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lling
– A
dven
turo
us
Activ
ity P
erm
it As
sess
men
t Day
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cost
to
Ham
pshi
re
mem
bers
(£
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pers
on to
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pshi
re)
25th
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tham
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2014
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ntur
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it As
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men
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er
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7 Ap
ril
2014
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art 1
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w
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2014
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10
May
201
4 Ra
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ity P
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men
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Act
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Ad
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ip c
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S 20
14
20 March 2014
hampshire Scout caving club
caving days10th or 11th may 2014
Try Caving on saturday or sunday on the 10th or 11th of May 2013 at hampshire scout Caving Club’s Caving Days. The activities are targeted at the novice caver who has little or no experience. If you have been before let us know and we can arrange slightly harder trips in the same area.
A Caving Day consists of about 3 hours caving in the morning and 3 hours of caving in the afternoon; normally at Burrington Coombe and priddy or in the local area.
Based around priddy in the Mendip hills of somerset, the cost is £90 per group of 6 or part thereof (this does not include food or transport to Mendip).If you are interested get your section leader to obtain more information and booking forms.
hsCC Booking secretary gavin Bancroft can be contacted on [email protected] 177744
hAmpShire Scout riFle clubwww.Scouts-shoot.org.uk/hsrc
www. hampshirescouts.org.uk 21
22 March 2014
Tel: 01329 318519
E-mail: [email protected]
Mobile07799 397168
Hampshire Scout Archery Club
5 Chantrell Walk , Fareham PO15 6ELTim & Charlotte Beeching
www. hampshirescouts.org.uk 23
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king
& C
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ng E
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e W
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19-2
0 A
pril
2014
or 1
7-18
May
201
4 (p
artic
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arr
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Frid
ay e
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ng)
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wdo
nia
Nat
iona
l Par
k, N
orth
Wal
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O
pen
to a
ll m
embe
rs o
f the
sco
ut A
ssoc
iatio
n ag
ed 1
8 an
d
abov
e w
ith n
o ex
perie
nce
in m
ount
aine
erin
g; u
p to
thos
e th
at w
ant t
o st
art t
akin
g an
act
ive
role
as
a m
ount
ain
lead
er.
Opp
ortu
nity
for t
hose
with
mor
e ex
perie
nce
to e
xplo
re
unfa
mili
ar ro
utes
and
gai
n lo
g bo
ok e
xper
ienc
e.
Wee
kend
pro
gram
mes
will
be
tailo
red
to y
our n
eeds
and
asp
iratio
ns.
W
eeke
nds
will
be
a ge
nera
l and
pra
ctic
al in
trodu
ctio
n to
the
m
any
aspe
cts
of m
ount
ain
wal
king
, with
the
wee
kend
pro
vidi
ng th
e ba
sic
pers
onal
all
roun
d sk
ills.
Trai
ning
and
gui
danc
e fo
r tho
se w
ishi
ng to
mak
e a
star
t
on th
e W
alki
ng G
roup
Lea
der,
Mou
ntai
n Le
ader
Aw
ard
or
scou
t Adv
entu
rous
Act
ivity
Per
mit.
Th
e co
st p
er w
eeke
nd p
er p
erso
n is
£60
per
per
son
whi
ch in
clud
es
indo
or a
ccom
mod
atio
n, c
ater
ing,
tuiti
on a
nd in
stru
ctio
n an
d us
e of
gr
oup
equi
pmen
t.
In
tere
sted
? Pl
ease
vis
it th
e H
amps
hire
sco
uts
Mou
ntai
neer
ing
Team
web
site
w
ww
.hsm
t.org
.uk
to g
ain
furth
er in
form
atio
n an
d bo
okin
g de
tails
. If y
ou w
ish
to
dis
cuss
furth
er, p
leas
e co
ntac
t the
team
at e
nqui
ries@
hsm
t.org
.uk
www.facebook.com/FernyCroftsBursary
On the first day we did
a small walk out into the
mountains to see what the
conditions were like. whilst
we waited for the rest of
the HSX team to travel
up, we found out that it was
definitely snow!
Every year in February, HSX run a week in the Cairngorms, practising snow skills, which we were able to tag along on. The winter conditions provided a new challenging environment for us to learn new skills and revise existing ones such as navigation. The weather for most of the week was overcast, with strong winds, and it was very cold. However we did enjoy a few moments of sunshine.
We had a Winter Mountain Leader show us
how to stop ourselves from
sliding down the mountain
side by using our ice axes,
this was called an ice axe
arrest.
cAIRNGoRmS IN FEbRUARY
THE FoRTH bURSARY TRIp