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Scout Back to Basics Camp 2008

In May we held the back to basics camp at Squirrel wood, the idea of the camp is to teach younger scouts basic camp and backwoods skills. These skills were taught on a base system, camp hygiene, axe and saw, fire lighting, pitch a tent and food wise, twists, making a stew and backwoods desserts.

25 Scouts from the 12th, 25th, 1/36th and 47th took part. It was interesting to see what scouts from different troops already knew and how they took on board the training and used it on camp. All the participants seemed to enjoy the camp and most of them including some of the leaders came away with a little more knowledge and another camp under their belt.

Well done to all the Scouts that took part, next step is the advanced camp skills weekend later in the year. Once again a big thank you to all the leaders and helpers who gave their time over the weekend, without whom none of the activities within scouting would happen or be the success they usually are.
Dirk Gilbert
ADC Scouts

Scout 7 'a' Side Football Competition

It was a wet and windy 'summer' morning when 10 teams from troops across the Danum district met at Balby Carr School to take part in the 2008 7 a side football competition. After a little bit of a scare when no referees turned up, a little bit of running around and with some persuasion 4 parents and leaders took up the challenge, and under the circumstances and at such short notice, they did a great job. This little problem sorted the games started and the rain luckily seemed to ease off, for a while anyway.

Balby Carr had worked together with Helen Nichols to formulate a league system to make sure that all teams played an equal amount of games and then went forward to a semi final and then onto an exiting final. The teams that took part were from the 1st/36th, 9th, 12th, 16th, 23rd, 25th, 28th, 47th, 55th, 61st, 67th& 68th, and a couple of Scouts from troops that did not have a full team joined other teams that were a player short. This made for some interesting comments from these Scouts as to how they had saved the day and without them their teams could not have won.

With the games underway it became apparent that some spectators were getting a little more exited than the players, this showed in the loud cheers of "GOOD BALL" and "GET IN THERE" to name but a few, It was good to see so much support for the Scouts from parents and friends. This did seem to spur the Scouts on and made for some exiting and in some cases nail biting games, especially when the final score was only decided in the closing minutes or by a penalty shoot out.

After the league games had been played we had the semi finals with the 9th, 12th, 61st & 67th and the Final was then between Bawtry and Bentley. Once again this was an exiting match with the 61st Bentley walking away with the title for the second year running. Congratulations to them but also to all the troops that took part to make this a great success and a big Thank you to Julie and Helen without whom the competition would not have taken part and run so smoothly, also a big thank you to the staff at Balby Carr who helped throughout the competition.
Dirk Gilbert
ADC Scouts