1st Histon Scouts

The programme for Scouts for Summer Term 2013 is published here.

Saturday 1 December was the Third Big Tidy Up around the villages of Histon and Impington. This time four scouts, a cub scout, a sibling, parents and two dogs helped out. We picked up four bin bags of rubbish from seven of Histon's roads.

I met these guys in February when I went to ZA to present some training for work. It's a privilege to have met them. Scouting in ZA is interesting; it's very purist, quite expensive, traditional, uniformed.... and whether you think that's the best way or not, it creates a core of incredibly skilled and dedicated Scouts.
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Isengard Tower Construction Progress -

The Isengard Tower (from Friday's post) is well on it's way to completion, with the lowest two levels largely complete. All that remains to be completed tomorrow is the flag pole which will stretch to 18m in height. In addition to housing the Gauteng Scouts stand for the Eco Expo, three Rovers from Orion Rover Crew will be camping on the 6m platform next weekend.

Jasmine today won "heaviest overall catch" for 1st Histon Scouts in the Cambs County Scout annual fishing competition. Single-handedly representing the troop in the first year we have entered, she beat out teams from troops across the county, catching the prize fish amongst a haul of carp, roach and tench in the two-hour competition.

What is Scout Community Week? Are you confused? Is it Bob-a-Job? Is it a way to take more part in the life of Histon and Impington? Is it planting trees and picking up litter? We're trying to hit all the bases, but it's all new and this is our first year at it.

At 1st Histon Scouts, we try to take part in Enviro stuff several times in the year, so the Scout troop decided instead to use this as a chance to go for the "Entrepreneur Challenge Badge". Think Dragon's Den with a bit of The Apprentice. We're half way through the process, and the Scouts have made around £100 so far, on a mix of car washing and a book sale, which much more and the bigger profits still to come. More importantly, they've done this entirely on their own initiative.

Falcons Book Sale #1—No Leader was involved at any stage in the production of this event

There are still events to come, include the bake sale and auction. Please click through to the Friends Of Histon Scouts facebook page and LIKE it to find out about and support the rest of our community week events—and please share and recommend the page to everyone you know in Histon and Impington. We're your local Scout group for your kids.

Mepal 2012 compo is still ongoing, but I wanted to bring you this image of the Explorers entering their wheelchair multi-vehicle into its 3rd and final event. It worked as a Scout Car and a Sedan Chair, but it's hard to optimize for all terain, and the rafting role is probably its weakest :-)

Scout Community Week was launched today! It's going to be 14-20th May in 2012, and we can't have a community week without a community. So, we at 1st Histon Scouts would welcome any ideas for projects that we can undertake around that time that would be useful and relevant to Histon and Impington. So if you are involved in any aspect of our local community that could benefit from enthusiastic hard work from local young people, please get in touch. We really want to help!

Scout community week is inspired by the long dead but not forgotten Bob-a-Job concept - and we do look to use it to raise funds for ourselves to benefit our youth programmes. But the difference is that we want to take on big projects that have a real community impact. You can find out more about how it works at Scouts.org.uk. If you have ideas for how we can make a difference in Histon and Impington, then mail me, Greg Harewood.

Cheers,
Greg
1st Histon SL

Following the kind grant from Histon Feast last year for archery equipment, we want everyone to know that we really are getting into our archery here at 1st Histon Scouts. We're now set up for all sections from 8-year old Cubs upwards to learn archery regularly as a sport. As always though, we're constantly looking for more adult volunteers to help more boys and girls to take part more often. If you fancy learning and teaching archery or any of our other many activities, give us a call. We'd love to have you along!

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