Newsletter

Summer 2025

Welcome to our news page. The place to find out what we have been up to.

The Cubs go sailing in Horning

Hoover sports at the Cubs

Domestic appliances can be changed into a game if you use your imagination.

The Beavers have a craft evening

The Cubs hone their domestic skills

Getting ready for sleepovers and camps

Angela Stevenson

It is with great sadness that the Group has learned of the death of Angela Stevenson.

Angela was one of our Beaver Leaders for many years and also supported the Group in so many other ways. She was a regular attender at camps and sleepovers and she was always on hand to help with fund raising especially jumble sales.

Angela now joins the list of people who can no longer sit round the camp fire with us. Our thoughts and prayers are with her family at this time.

The Group is awarded a grant for new Archery Equipment

We are very pleased to announce that the Group has received a grant of £1353.00 from The Shelroy Trust Fund supported by Norfolk Community Foundation.

The money will allow the Group to purchase new archery equipment for the young people to use. This activity supports health and well being and it is also a lot of fun to do. The new equipment replaces old and worn out bows and arrows and will be in use this summer at camps and other activities both at our new HQ and elsewhere.

The young people and the archery instructors thank the Shelroy Trust for this generous donation which will support present and future generations of young people in the area.

Thank you Bure Valley Rotary

We would like to thank the Bure Valley Rotary Group for their generous donation to Group Funds. This will be used to improve the landscaping in the area near the Annexe and to provide facilities for young people to grow plants and to work on their gardening badges.

Rotary members take on the Scouts at Kick Cricket

Shrove Tuesday is Pancake Day

On Pancake Day we all made pancakes

First you have to mix them	It is very easy to make a mess
Then you fry them	A perfect job done

Cubs in Action

Our new HQ Floor is ideal for Unihoc

birdfood

Mixing bird food. It does not feel good.

Opening Ceremony of our new HQ

The opening ceremony took place on 30th of November 2024 when a crowd of young people, parents, friends and supporters of our Group gathered in the new building. It was an all day event with Scouting activities to join in and enjoy as well as speeches, thanks and the unveiling of a new plaque.

This new building was built to the specifications asked for by the young members of our Group and so it was only fitting that they should also be the ones to unveil the plaque and declare the building open.

It was a very special day for our Group and the culmination of two years of hard work. It was also great fun to meet up with so many Group supporters and to be able to give out thanks badges to those who had helped to make this possible.

Here are some pictures:

Supporters start to gather and the kitchen team prepares the food

Class of 87

Some of the team who built our old HQ in 1987

archery

Time for some outdoor activities too

rifles

The covered area at the side of the building is great for rifle shooting

Daffy

Daffy's Craft table is always a popular attraction

Now it was time to get the formal part of the event underway.

Andy gave an introductory speech followed by a slide show from Nigel with details of how the building project has progressed over the last two years starting with the grant application form and ending with this special ceremony.

The Rev Liz then led the prayers and gave a blessing to the new building. May it be a safe and happy place.

Andy now gave out thanks badges to those who helped make this all possible

MP Stefan

North Norfolk MP Steffan Aquarone gets a badge too. It was a government grant that paid for it all.

Unveiling

Now it was time for the young people to unveil the plaque

plaque

The cake was cut and we were open for Scouting business. The cake was nice too.

Young people and Stefan

Steffan with some of the young people. Will any of these become MPs? Why not.

18th November 2024. We have moved back to our HQ in Wroxham

The building work is completed and the Group has moved back to our fantastic new building in Wroxham. Thank you to the Barton Turf Adventure Centre which has been our temporary home for the last year.

The moving in process is far from complete yet but everyone has enjoyed looking round the new building and seeing what it can do.

The Cubs are back and they think it is great.

The Scouts try out the electric loft ladder.

It seems huge but we will soon fill it.

We now have a separate news page where you can follow the story of the building work on our new HQ building from beginning to end. Just Click Here to take a look.

You can see our Press Release about the grant we were given for the HQ upgrade project. Click Here to take a look.

More Things Cubs Do

We do something different every week.

Fingerprinting. Will they find who dunnit.

Tomahawk throwing.

Cubs in Summer Action at Barton Turf

Cooking snacks on a fire

Time to eat what you cooked

This is how boats get to the water

Out on the water at Barton Turf

muddy Barton

After all that rain, it sure is muddy at the slipway

Group Camp 2024

This year we were back at the Mike Thurston Centre for our Group Camp. The weather was a bit wet at times, but we are Scouts and we are tough.

Time to set up the camp

pitching tents

Kitchen areas are set up and dining shelters pitched.

Kitchens are ready

Time for hot chocolate by the camp fire.

hot choc nice

This hot chocolate is nice.

Above - Sausages for breakfast

Right - This pallet busting tool is great fun to use.

Preparing breakfast

nice food

The breakfasts were good.

Time to get out on the water

kayak

Its a big boat but I can handle it.

kayak

Out on the lake

Kayaks can be wobbly but when you are confident it is easy.

blue kayak

Out on the lake in blue

Doing the Nifty Knotter challenge.

archery

On the archery range

It didn't rain all the time and camp is a nice place to be.

You can't beat a good supply of pallets at a camp.

chopping pallets

Cutting up pallets was an endless source of entertainment.

Chefs

The 3rd Bromley team get the fires going for cooking the evening meal

Kebabs are prepared

Nigel leads the camp fire singing.
"Father Abraham had seven sons"

What's that I hear up in the attic?

Toasting marshmallows round the camp fire

friends

It was fun but somehow didn't taste good.

Camp fire entertainers with 100 verses aboard a pirate ship

Nathan

A quiet moment to see if the fish are biting.

break gun

On the rifle range you first have to break the gun

loading

Then it is time to load.

fire

Take aim and shoot.

Thank you to everyone who helped to make the camp possible.

Things Cubs Do

Here is a look at some of the things that the Cubs have been doing at Pack meetings this year. In the Scouts we do something exciting and different every week. These are just some examples:

Making things with balloons

bag packing

Raising funds by packing bags at Roys Supermarket in Hoveton. Fund raising helps us to keeps the costs of Scouting down.

You can make things with food and you can eat it too

Learning about the stars on a dark night

On First Aid night, learning how to do resuscitation could save a life tomorrow.

Above- What is wrong with this patient?
Right - How to stop bleeding from the head.

Putting the casualty into the recovery position

defibrillator training

Learning how to use a defibrillator can save someone's life. Hands off if it says it is going to shock.

on floor

Making bird boxes

The boxes look good

The top of Happisburgh Lighthouse is a great place to meet.

The view is not bad either

boating

Time to go boating with Horning Sailing Club

leaning out

To balance a sailing boat you have to lean out. Well, maybe not that much.

Oppies

Out in Optimists

by the Swan

Passing the Southern Comfort

safety boat

If you fall in you get rescued.

table

Amazing what you find in ponds. Just so much life.

on farm

Holding chicks down on the farm.

tractor tyre

One way to ride a tractor

Scout Events in January 2024

The Scouts are working on the Mechanic Badge. They went on a visit to City College to learn about vehicle maintenance as well as building bird boxes and doing a Lego challenge:

Scouts with badge certificates

It is much easier to work underneath in this way

Bird Box Time We learn lots of new skills in Scouting and a bit of woodwork is a really useful thing to be able to do. As always, we learn using the Scouting Method of learning by joining in. Here you see the Scouts in action honing their woodworking skills on bird boxes. The birds will be grateful. I am sure you will agree there is a fine selection of different boxes on the table,

Christingle Service

Christingle services bring the magic of Christmas. Here we are in Wroxham Church with Rev Liz.

The 25th World Scout Jamboree in Korea

A Jamboree is a large Scout camp with participating Scouts drawn from all over the World.
World Scout Jamborees are the biggest ones and take place every 4 years.
In 2023, the 25th WSJ was held in Korea, and two of our Leaders, Cath and Nigel, were at the camp as part of the International Service Team (IST). This is a team of up to 10,000 adults who make the camp happen for the 45,000 participants.
The tiger is called Chingu by the way and was the logo of the UK participants at the Jamboree.

Many of you will have seen news reports about problems at the Jamboree. There were problems with infrastructure not working and some serious weather problems including monsoon rain causing flooding, a heatwave with temperatures in the high 30s with 90% humidity and then, finally, Typhoon Khanun put the emergency evacuation plan into operation.

Despite the problems, Cath and Nigel had a fun and interesting time at the Jamboree. Cath was involved with running coach visits to an offsite archaeological site and Won Buddhist temple. Nigel was running a dance activity and helping with the Ham Radio station. After the site was evacuated, they moved to the capital Seoul and were involved with running Jamboree activity bases around the city.

Here are a few photographs:

Nigel finally finds a cup of tea at the UK food house

dancing

Scouts from round the world show us their dance moves

The Ham Radio team with their aerials

Cath (middle) being surreal in Seoul

The 26th WSJ will be in Poland in 2027. Be ready.

The Beavers make Lanterns

Its always more fun in the dark, but a lantern is always useful when you are outside. Even better when you make your own.

Spooky Beavers at Halloween

Halloween is a chance to dress up and do all sorts of daft things. Here are the Beavers doing just that:

Twists
A Twist is a long strip of home made bread which you cook over a camp fire by twisting it round a stick. They really do taste nice.

Of course, half the fun is getting your hands in the mixture. They taste particularly good with a lot of chocolate spread on them.

It can get a bit messy, Here are a few pictures. See for yourself.

Beavers and chocolate spread are a messy mix.

Cubs like to make twists too.

As you can see, they taste good.