Jul 10 2024
Here’s a formula for a good read. First, take the world’s largest voluntary youth organisation and a Scout Group with more than a century of tradition, located in a beautiful part of the world. Next, collect an incredibly dedicated team of Scouters to run the programme. Inspire them, train them, and support them with great facilities …
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Apr 04 2024
Thanks once more to all our article contributors for making this issue possible. Special thanks to Ian Webb for documenting the history of our group through its various flags over the last year – our flag series now draws to a close. If there are any suggestions for material that you’d like to see covered …
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Apr 08 2020
We started 2020 with a full calendar and great plans, and ended the term in lock down! Quite a change, bringing with it both challenges and opportunities for our scouts and cubs. 1st Claremont is in the remarkable position of having 4 of our senior scouts hoping to become Springbok scouts, and many of our …
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Mar 20 2019
Instead of a list of contents you can skim this post and click on the articles that interest you. A different way to find content that interests you. Scouts For an exciting overview of what Scouts get up to, start off by watching what two senior scouts have to say about “A year at 1st …
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Mar 20 2019
December 2018 ended with the Annual Scout Camp at Appleton: with 17 Scouts and 18 Scouters attending. Activities included a walk to the Kramat and the Noon Gun. Team games like volley ball and an amazing race An outing to the Company Gardens …
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Mar 20 2019
Sea Scout courses are very much foreign to most land scouts as we generally don’t stray to that side of things. However, this year I attended a senior Sea Scout course called Boatswain. This course has two parts; to teach you how to repair any damages done to a boat and the other part of this course …
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Mar 20 2019
My 1st Claremont Troop Camp started on the 15th December 2018. We packed all our equipment for the camp, and then started our journey to Appleton Scout Base on Signal Hill. At Appleton we were divided into patrols. We hiked down Signal Hill to the noon gun. The navy officer gave us a bit of …
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