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* Car maintenance (Mechanic badge), with the guys in the service department at Phoenix Vauxhall.
* We *very* *nearly* got the 'polar badge' for camping at below freezing point, but it wasn't quite cold enough!
* Building catapults.
* Scuba diving.
* Cooking (apple fritters)
* Rock climbing
* Mapping and navigation, night hike on Wimbledon Common
* Lived on board a 90-foot sailing ship for a weekend. Sailed round the Thames Estuary and out to sea. Steered the ship, set and trimmed the sails, climbed the mast, went out on the bowsprit.
* Made shadow puppets and performed plays with them.
* Backwoods cooking: chocolate oranges
* Camp training: learning to cook on wood fires, gas stoves, petrol stoves.
* Rock climbing: scaling the natural sandstone rock face at Harrison's Rocks.
* A day of watersports at the Dockland Scout Project
* Went to the Malvern Challenge with 3000 other Scouts, completed the activity hike and did loads of other activities!
* Juggling, Poi, and other circus skills
* Quad bikes
* Low ropes - teamwork and confidence games
* Camp cook skills: menu planning, shopping to a budget and cooking a weekend's meals for a group over a wood fire.
* Tie-dying t-shirts
* Cooking: stuffed tomatoes
* Mountain biking
* First aid
* Mini-catapults
* Orienteering
* Making friends with snakes, spiders, geckos, and loads more (the python was called Monty!)
* Origami
* GLSW Night hike and overnight camp
* Cooking: Shepherd's pie
* Life skills: ironing a shirt, sewing
* Hiking on South Devon's coastal path and on Dartmoor.
* Dinghy sailing.
* BBQ on the beach.
* Paragliding!
* Teambuilding games
* Cooking a pancake (but using only a candle flame!)
* Making bird feeders
* Cooking eggy bread
* Patrol barbeque competition
* Aviation activities: Flying a light aircraft, visiting a working airfield, visiting the control tower, pre-flight aircraft checks, airfield safety and signals, building model aircraft, flight simulators.
Image: Photo: Andy Ellam
Andy Ellam, Scout Leader
andrew.ellam@8thwimbledon.org
Image: Matt Hunt, Assistant Scout Leader
Matt Hunt, Assistant Scout Leader
Image: 8th Wimbledon Scouts - traditional 'outdoor skills' camp at Polyapes
Lloyd Mead, Assistant Scout Leader
Image: Nicola Golding
Nicola Golding, Warranted Helper
For those Scouts who want to know the requirements for particular badges:
- Membership Award
- The 8 Challenge Badges
- The Activity Badges
- The Chief Scout's Gold Award
- Group Awards
- Position of badges on uniform
(All pictures are shown with permission from parents / guardians).
Image: 8th Wimbledon Scouts make friends with snakes and spiders
Making friends with snakes and spiders from around the world. Click here for more photos
Image: 8th Wimbledon Scouts at the Greater London South West county night hike, 2007
8th Wimbledon Scouts at the Greater London South West county night hike, 2007. Click here for more pictures
Image: 8th Wimbledon Scouts: Easter camp in South Devon (image is of dinghy sailing)
8th Wimbledon Scouts Easter Camp 2007: South Devon. Click here for more photos and info
Image: 8th Wimbledon Scouts - Paragliding
8th Wimbledon Scouts go paragliding - click here for more photos. (May 2007)
Image: 8th Wimbledon Scouts flying a motor-glider at Cambridge Gliding Centre, courtesy of Herts Scouts
Image: 8th Wimbledon Scouts watersports day 2007 (photo)
We sometimes meet at Patches, which is here:
http://tinyurl.com/patches-chessington
Go down the A3, turn off at the exit signed for Chessington World of Adventures, left at the roundabout, straight on until you've gone past CWoA, still straight on until you pass a golf club on your right; then Patches is a field gate on the left. Look out for the Land Rover. If you hit the M25 roundabout then you've gone past it.
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