Scouts

What's the point of Scouts? We help our Scouts grow in confidence, integrity and self-reliance, teamwork and leadership ability. We do this through challenge, adventure and fun!

What kind of things do we do?

* 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.

Scout Troop: Leaders

Andy Ellam, Scout Leader
andrew.ellam@8thwimbledon.org

Matt Hunt, Assistant Scout Leader

Lloyd Mead, Assistant Scout Leader

Nicola Golding, Warranted Helper

Pictures of the Scouts, on Scouting activities

(All pictures are shown with permission from parents / guardians).

Making friends with snakes and spiders from around the world. Click here for more photos

8th Wimbledon Scouts at the Greater London South West county night hike, 2007. Click here for more pictures

8th Wimbledon Scouts Easter Camp 2007: South Devon. Click here for more photos and info

8th Wimbledon Scouts go paragliding - click here for more photos. (May 2007)

8th Wimbledon Scouts flying a light aircraft at Cambridge Gliding Centre, courtesy of Herts Scouts. Click here for more photos. (July 2007)

8th Wimbledon Scouts Watersports Day 2007, courtesy of the Dockland Scout Project. Click here for more photos.

Patches

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.

Position of badges on Scout Uniform

Badge requirements

Challenge Awards

Activity Badges

Staged Activity Badges