Pimp My Tent

Full details will shortly be available of a Cub 2 Scout link weekend we are organising on 5 and 6 July in Kent.

We will be inviting teams of Cubs due to move onto Scouts by the end of 2008 and younger Scouts who have joined the Troop in the past 6 to 12 months, directed by the Scout Patrol Leaders, to a weekend camp. The main part of the camp will be a Pimp My Tent competition where each team will be asked to paint a patrol tent.

To coincide with the District's Centenary each team will be given a decade from 1908 through to 2008 to theme their tent upon.

Backwoods Camps 2008

After a year's break Backwoods Camps are back by popular demand from the Scouts and will be taking place between 29 and 31 August 2008.

All of the information will be passed out to Scout Leaders (and appear on this site) later this year but in the meantime please keep the dates free when booking your summer holidays!

Le Weekend 2007

The first District organised trip for Scouts into Europe took place over the August Bank Holiday weekend with a 4 day trip to Paris, staying at the D'Artagnan Youth Hostel for 3 nights.

Scouts from 3rd Barnehurst, 4th Barnehurst and 5th/7th Bexleyheath plus Explorers all took part and after arriving via Eurostar on Thursday evening, the whole of Friday was spent at Disneyland Paris.

Saturday was spent in the centre of Paris - from Notre Dame along the Champs Elysees and then up to the top of the Arc de Triomphe before a metro ride to the Sacre Coeur for a great view over Paris and then dinner.

On Sunday morning we visited the Eiffel Tower and then after descending the Tower it was straight off to Gare du Nord for the Eurostar back home.

District Summer Camp 2006

At the end of July we held a week long District Summer Camp for the first time, which took place at Ferny Crofts in the New Forest and brought together Scouts from 3 rd Barnehurst, 4th Barnehurst, 5th/7 th Bexleyheath and 8th Bexleyheath plus Explorers from Bexleyheath ESU.

During the week a mixture of off-site activities such as a day hike and mountain biking and on-site activities such as climbing, high ropes, rafting, archery, orienteering, crate stacking and camp skills sessions were organised.

On the Thursday we had a day out, catching the ferry over to Brownsea Island and then going to the Water Park in Poole in the evening.

By the end of the week anyone looking at the Scouts would have thought that they were all from one group as they mixed together so well and at this stage we intend to organise another District Summer Camp in 2010 as the troop leaders and district team feel once every 4 years is about the right timescale.

The camp could never have gone ahead without the help of the leaders who gave up a week of their holidays to assist in running the camp so a big thank you to each and every one of them: Matt, Paul, Adrian, Jonno, Rob, Steve, John, Moose, Pete, Chloe, Dave, Howard, Alan, Angela, Di and Gary and also to Keith for organising the transport of the equipment to and from camp.

Backwoods Camp 2006

Over the first weekend of July we organised a backwoods camp at Broadstone which attracted around 50 Scouts and Explorers who did a variety of activities over the weekend including cooking over open fires, hiking to Broadstone through the Ashdown Forest and sleeping in bivouacs.

Backwoods Camp 2005

On 11 and 12 June we organised a backwoods camp at Broadstone which attracted 34 Scouts who did a variety of activities over the weekend to complete their Backwoods badge including cooking over open fires and sleeping in bivouacs. The weekend was organised as a direct result of the district Patrol Leaders Council 6 months beforehand and thanks must go to Gary, Rob and Chloe for putting together most of the onsite programme for the weekend.