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10th Harrogate (St Wilfrid's)Walsh's Own Scout Group
Thursday 6 - 745 p.m. in the Church Hall
Cub News April/May 2010 (by Christine Turner, Akela)
The Cub Pack's numbers have grown steadily over the last year. This has lead to the opening of a second Pack on a Friday night which will start after the Easter holidays with 9 members. The Thursday night Pack is currently full with 40 young people, both girls and boys. Both Packs will be following similar programmes for the next term and joining together for some outdoor activities.
During the Easter holidays 17 Cubs from both the 10th and 15th Harrogate Cub Packs enjoyed a great camp at Moor House Campsite in Durham where the Cubs tried out activities such as sling shot (catapults with safety goggles), tomahawk throwing with real tomahawks – it's not as easy as looks in films! We also had a very enjoyable time on the cresta run; even Akela was persuaded to go down once! Alongside this we had our usual camp activities of wide games and a campfire.
We are now looking forward to and preparing to join over 500 Cubs from all over North Yorkshire at the County Cub in Pateley Bridge at the end of May when we will be in tents and enjoying a wide variety of activities. Also, during our weekly meetings we will go bell boating, climbing and using the District's campsite at Thornthwaite to practice such skills as fire lighting.
Akela
Scout Group News
Group News:
Over the last year, the Scout Group has continued to grow in numbers of both young people and adults and this has been reflected in our annual census report to Headquarters. This resulted in me receiving a letter of congratulations from our County Commissioner for the increase in membership for the second year running.
It was a very busy year for the Group as we celebrated 100 years since the formation of the original 10th Harrogate Scout Troop at Clifton House School. The celebrations took many different forms, including a treasure hunt and hog roast in June when the Group raised over £600 for the Harrogate Young Carer's; the formal Centenary celebration service at St. Wilfrid's which was attended by the Mayor of Harrogate and her consort along with the former Chief Scout, Major-General Michael Walsh and finished with our Group camp in October.
The Scout Group are very thrilled to announce that 3 of our current Scouts, plus an Explorer Scout Young Leader have all been selected from our Group to go to the Jamboree as part of the County's contingent. It is quite an accolade for the Scouts at St. Wilfrid's to have gained four out of the nine places from the District. I am sure that they will have a wonderful time in Sweden in 2011 and will gain a lot from the interaction with Scouts from all nations. Alongside these four, two of our Leaders have been selected to go to the Jamboree as members of the 500 strong UK group to join the International Service Team – these are the adults who become staff members ensuring that the participants gain as much as possible from their experience.