News and Info for the whole Group
Five teams of scouts navigated their way to a cookout on Friday.
Teams started from Weald, Bough Beech, Toys Hill, Sundridge and Dibden and made their way towards Ide Hill
Our intrepid scouts all managed to sniff out the campfire and arrived in time to cook their treat. Scouts brought a good range of things – we had kebabs, burgers, sausages and even a chocolate banana
Continue reading Cookout HikeLast week Scouts from Swift, Chapman troops at the 4th and 9th Sevenoaks Scouts took their summer camp at the Kent International Jamboree (KIJ) at the Kent County Showground in Detling.
Kent International Jamboree is an activity camp for scouts from around the world in the heart of Kent. With over 3,500 young people from coming together to take part in activities and celebrate scouting.
A Jamboree is an opportunity and an experience like no other. Most Scouts and Guides get to experience many different forms of nights away experiences but a Jamboree, whether it’s a local, national or international Jamboree is the kind of camp that will live with them forever.
Continue reading Our Scouts at Kent International JamboreeTen of our older scouts undertook their Expedition Challenge at the weekend.
To complete their challenge they have to plan an expedition, including destination, means of travel, routes / itinerary, food planning and then carry it out. They only thing they don’t have to do is carry all their camping equipment with them.
Both groups successfully planned their journeys and navigated their way from Sevenoaks to Malling District’s campsite at Comp Wood.
Our scouts headed for the river this weekend, and tried their hands at paddle boarding.
There are lots of photos from the session – View them in Google Photos
This activity was made possible in part by a grant from Kent County Council, which paid for leader training and equipment, and by the adults that supported the activity.
The activity was hosted at 14th Tonbridge Sea Scouts HQ
If you are a scout or explorer scout in the district, we are planning future sessions see the District Events Website
After some logistical and meteorological challenges, some of our scouts got the chance to go microlighting recently.
Hopefully it won’t be too long before we get another chance
Big thank you to the Kent Scouts Air Activities Team for the opportunity.
The group held its first in-person Annual General Meeting last night for three years,
We welcomed a number of members to the Group Executive Committee (most of whom are also Trustees of the group charity). Tony Mann as Group Chair, Catherine Martin as Group Secretary and officially elected JoAnn Etherington as Group Treasurer.
Thank you to all the parents that joined us for this important part of being a charity.
At the end of the AGM we presented a number of Chief Scouts Awards, including our first Acorn Awards to some of our Squirrels.
We also caught-up on some awards that were delayed from last year.
Continue reading First in-person AGM since 2019!Both scout troops have been out cycling in the last week, unfortunately we didn’t manage to take photos that passed the sub-editors.
You can take it from us that it was lovely though. 🙂
For the jubilee the Swift Troop patrols competed to see who could build the highest flag-pole in the allowed time, and who could paint the best union flag.
All four patrols made a good attempt, with some higher than others.
Chapman troop built themselves trebuchets so that they could have a water fight.
I think everyone would agree that they learnt from the experience and that they will make even better trebuchets next time!
Continue reading Chapman Troop Trebuchet Water FightOur planned microlighting session during camp unfortunately had to be cancelled. After a quick reassessment of our weekend, we decided to relocate the camp to Hamlet Wood scout campsite near Maidstone.
The camp was a patrol camp, with scouts doing just about all the catering for the whole weekend, including cooking for leaders!
We tried a somewhat different menu for a change.
We did manage to squeeze some activities in-between the cooking and eating – we threw tomahawks, ran a catapult shooting gallery (only tin cans and chickpeas were hurt) and ran some wide games.
We have masses of photos and videos – there are a sample below but you can view them all in the shared album
Continue reading Scouts Camp at Hamlet Wood
