Andy Hibberd is the Scout Leader at 1st Crawley and below is his account of this exciting expedition at the end of last year. His impressive month-long trek through Nepal took him over a variety of mountainous terrain, across several passes and to Everest Base Camp. Recently he made presentations …
With 2019 under way we have already started our winning ways – Crawleys Shackleton Explorers ventured to Hertfordshire for the Fire and Ice Winter camp with 1200 Explorers in attendance. The shooting trophies went our way with Deiniol taking the pistol trophy and Katie the rifle honours. An excellent result …
On the 25th to the 27th of July a group of explorer and network scouts set off on an intrepid 3-day pilgrimage from Rochester to Canterbury around 60km braving the scorching summer heatwave with only what we carried on our backs with the goal of reaching spiritual enlightenment (evaluating our beliefs) and …
Crawley District Scouts would like to take this opportunity to thank all of you, our members, our parents, our friends, and our supporters, for another brilliant year of Scouting. We hope you all have a wonderful Christmas and a sparkling New Year with, most importantly, some quality time with family …
On the weekend of 10th/11th November members from 1st Northgate and 5th Crawley travelled to The Natural History Museum to participate in the Dino-snores event. We enjoyed activities such as a science show, designing our own dinosaur t-shirts, searching for dinosaurs on a torch lit trail and an animal encounter. …
Please see above the details for 7th Crawley’s Christmas Fair. Many fantastic prizes are up for grabs in the Raffle as below: Flier Raffle Information
As 2018 comes to an end, I’ve looked back on the successes of our shooting teams. The first 6 months of the year we were focused on the National Camelot Shooting Competition. We gained 16 gold, 14 silver and 12 bronze medals, and again securing not just the top spot, …
Each Remembrance Sunday, Scouts in cities, towns and villages across the UK show their support for the sacrifices made by our servicemen and women. This year is made all the more poignant for the fact that that 2018 is the centenary of the Armistice, bringing an end to the First …
Over the weekend of Fri 19th to Sun 21st Oct over 40 members of Crawley District took part in the 42nd National Scout Shooting Championships at Bisley. The event is held every year and approx. 800 shooters from across the UK take part in a large number of shooting events including: Air …
From Thursday 25th October to Sunday 28th October, 19 Explorer Scouts and 3 Scout Network from across Crawley District were hosted by Drake Explorers at their annual mountain activity weekend staying at a bunk house in Cynwyd, North Wales. Participants spent 3 days walking in the mountains, including Snowdon (the …
The young people of Crawley have lost the use of a magical outdoor place after the theft of the main electrical cable into the local Scout campsite. At some point during the last week of September metal thieves disconnected and stole 150m of high voltage copper cable from the Pease …
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