19th Maidenhead Scout Group

You may remember that a few months ago we held a jumble sale in aid of some Scouts who Sue Hardman met in Kenya. I am pleased to say that in part thanks to our fundraising efforts, the Scouts were able to go camping. I have attached their expedition report.

Thank you very much to all those who helped make this possible, particularly Sue, Vicki and many others in the group.

Last weekend the cubs went on camp at Youlbury activity centre near Oxford. They did loads of activities such as:

• Orienteering
• Tracking
• Jacob’s ladder
• Zip wire

• 3G swing

Some photos can be found here.

Ten scouts this year baved freezing temperatures to take part in the Annual District Night Hike this weekend. This was one of the highest turnouts by members of the 19th for many years. We were able to put 2 teams (Normally we struggle to have 4 scouts).

The route centred on Cookham with our start point been on Cookham Dean Common. Challenges included Racing remote controlled cars round a track – blindfolded; Lighting a candle from 10 feet away using poles; Measuring hieght and distatnce of three points; Sheep pen challenge and many others.

As always thanks have to go to the adults who gave up a nights sleep provide the necessary back up and support.

The Results 19thA came 2nd and 19th B came 17th=.

4 cubs from the 19th joined other cubs from around Maidenhead in the Sixers Activity day. They did activities:

• Orienteering
• Building charriots
• Cooking lunch on fires

• Blind circus skills.

At the end they raced their charriots. See pictures here and here.

As normal being a sponsored Group our Remembrance Sunday Parade was held at one of our Sponsoring Churches. This year we were at St Joseph’s church. We were joined by 1st Maidenhead Brownie Pack.