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2021

Blandford Yuletide Festival

Blandford Yuletide Festival

Blandford Yuletide Festival

We had Beavers and younger Cubs in the lantern parade with fanatically made trees made mostly by Scouts (with a little help from Beavers too). Older Cubs and Scouts helped on the tombola stall  - We raised £99

Mayor's Summer Fun Day

Blandford Yuletide Festival

Blandford Yuletide Festival

Scout section were troopers at this event and cooked up MANY sausages and burgers for the general public, raising lots of money for the Mayor's charity. Beavers and Cubs also volunteered to help on our games stall, we raised £117

AGM 2021

Blandford Yuletide Festival

back face-2-face - april

Our Group AGM had to take place via Zoom this year due to restrictions not being lifted as anticipated. We will hold a family BBQ as soon as it's safe to do so.

back face-2-face - april

Weekly zoom sessions continue

back face-2-face - april

WE ARE BACK FACE-2-FACE SCOUTING

over a year since we had to go online!

We do have restrictions - thank you to all young people and adults for doing their best!

St George camp @ home

Weekly zoom sessions continue

Weekly zoom sessions continue

We had another super successful Camp at Home event. Thank you to Shane again for his great chat about what was happening in the night sky this weekend. We had a great campfire sing along thanks to Atlas and others.

Weekly zoom sessions continue

Weekly zoom sessions continue

Weekly zoom sessions continue

Group Zoom sessions continue this term (Jan- Apr) with cooking, crystal maze, Chinese New Year, battleships, Among us, Italian Bake Off and Astronomy sessions.

Summer Activity Day 2021

Butchers Coppice

2020

Badge Envelopes

New Lights Installed January 2020

Biodegradable Leather Woggles

We previously used plastic bags to award all the badges that Scouts had earnt, but we have now changed to a GREENER alternative, brown paper envelopes, 100% recyclable. Not a cheaper option but much better for the environment!

Biodegradable Leather Woggles

New Lights Installed January 2020

Biodegradable Leather Woggles

We have stopped purchasing non-biodegradable plastic Scout woggles.

We are now sourcing them from the 'WoggleMakers' who hand-make biodegradable eco-friendly leather woggles.  

We can help save the planet one woggle at a time!

New Lights Installed January 2020

New Lights Installed January 2020

New Lights Installed January 2020

HUGE THANK YOU to Reece Adams (scout parent) and his super dooper helpers for giving up their valuable Christmas holiday time to fit lots of external lighting  free of labour charge! This will make the hut much safer.

Leaks - feb 2020

leaders check out land & wave

New Lights Installed January 2020

Thank you to Kev, Chay and other adults who helped mend our leaky patches in both toilet rooms

leaders check out land & wave

leaders check out land & wave

leaders check out land & wave

Three leaders from Blandford joined other Scout Leaders from across the country to see what Land & Wave have to offer young people. They had a great weekend of fire lighting, axe throwing, archery and paddle boarding plus making new friends - Thanks Land & Wave

we have a new roof

leaders check out land & wave

leaders check out land & wave

Thank you to Clarks construction for replacing our roof just in time before the Lockdown and more bad weather came

grounds resurfaced with extra parking

grounds resurfaced with extra parking

grounds resurfaced with extra parking

We now have all the paths resurfaced and we have an area for extra parking too.

renewed hall floor

grounds resurfaced with extra parking

grounds resurfaced with extra parking

Huge thank you to John Kerley for donating the money to hire an industrial sander to renew the main hall floor - and to Kev Elliott for sanding and varnishing

new safe wood store

grounds resurfaced with extra parking

new additions to the tree

It didn't take long to pull down the old log store which has now been replaced with a large upvc covered shed neatly tucked away behind the hedging, making it much safer for all

new additions to the tree

new additions to the tree

new additions to the tree

Thanks to Shere Khan (Shottsford Cub Leader & expert knotter) we now have various things hanging from the tree for young people to safely play with

HQ improvements

new additions to the tree

Great Weekender June 2020

The Elliott family and some other volunteers have been busy painting most internal walls of the HQ and replacing the floor tiles in Scout & Cub rooms

Great Weekender June 2020

new additions to the tree

Great Weekender June 2020

We joined Scouts across the UK for a camp at home event. 80 Scouts took part from Blandford, Charlton Marshall & The Winterbornes. 

VE DAY 75TH ANNIVERSARY

OUR THANK YOU ON ST GEORGE'S DAY 2020

weekly zoom sessions

county Brownsea 113 Camp

weekly zoom sessions

Scout sessions for all sections continue throughout Lockdown 1 with lots of different fun activities and games - thank you to all Leaders taking part

AGM - June 2020

county Brownsea 113 Camp

weekly zoom sessions

This years AGM went ahead via zoom

Report can be viewed in 'Committee Files' (or click on the image above)

county Brownsea 113 Camp

county Brownsea 113 Camp

scouts race round the world

We set sail for a virtual at home camp with other Scouts from across Dorset County. Atlas (Beaver Leader) did a great family international quiz and we had a good campfire

scouts race round the world

scouts race round the world

scouts race round the world

Some of our Beaver, Cubs & Scouts took part in the Scouts HQ fundraising event and clocked up some miles and money! Huge well done to those who took part

Weekly group zoom sessions

scouts race round the world

Weekly group zoom sessions

Throughout the Summer holidays and the Autumn/Winter term we continued zooms but as a Group instead of individual sections. We had a forensic scientist, interactive Dino hunt and lots of baking, escape rooms and games

Remembrance

scouts race round the world

Weekly group zoom sessions

Many thanks to Abi for representing the Scout Group and laying a wreath in Remembrance

remembering together

remembering together

remembering together

We couldn't be physically together for this years remembrance but we did have quite a few Scouts join us via zoom. Thank you to Atlas for putting together a great presentation to share

care for care homes

remembering together

remembering together

During one of our Group weekly Scout sessions we created 'caring hands' which were sent to elderly relatives or care homes.

Panto @ home

remembering together

Panto @ home

It's become a tradition to go to have a Group Panto trip over the festive period and so we continued the tradition at home this year.

Jack & The Beanstalk was created by the same company as the one we see annually at Poole Lighthouse

2019

St George's Celebrations

Town Council Easter Egg Hunt

St George's Celebrations

Mayor's Scout

Town Council Easter Egg Hunt

St George's Celebrations

The outgoing Mayor, Cllr Roger Carter thanked Owen Brightman for Mayors Scout 2018-2019.

Cllr Lynn Lindsay the new mayor for 2019-2020 presented Abigail Wheeler with her sash as she was chosen to be Mayors Scout

Town Council Easter Egg Hunt

Town Council Easter Egg Hunt

Town Council Easter Egg Hunt

Blandford Town Council invited us to serve refreshments for their Easter Egg Hunt event during the Easter holidays.

Big thank you to the Beavers that helped at this event, it was a lovely couple of hours in the Woodhouse Gardens!

Doughnut AGM

Cape to Cape the Grand Tour

Town Council Easter Egg Hunt

Thank you to all the families that came to support his years AGM! Due to the rain we had to change plans of outdoor relay games to a beetledrive indoors. It's great to start a new year with all key committee roles filled and we had another parent offer to join the committee

Cape to Cape the Grand Tour

Cape to Cape the Grand Tour

Cape to Cape the Grand Tour

A spectacle of more than 40 classic cars competed in a grand odyssey of a rally which began at Cape Trafalgar in Spain. Lots of Scouts turned up to show support in welcoming the cars as they passed through Blandford.

https://www.thetrafalgarway.org/blog/the-victory-grand-tour-cape-to-cape-2019

Georgian Fayre

Cape to Cape the Grand Tour

Cape to Cape the Grand Tour

This year we were in The Crown garden which was great. Lots of visitors to the stall. We had the biggest tombola we have ever seen!

Thank you to all adults and Scouts that helped out throughout the day!

Pride Parade

ABW School Fair

ABW School Fair

July 2019

We took part in our first Pride Parade in Bournemouth, it was great! 

ABW School Fair

ABW School Fair

ABW School Fair

July 2019

Thank you to Baloo (Shelley) for running this fun fundraising event 

First Aiders

ABW School Fair

Table Top Sale

September 2019

Many thanks to our Leaders who volunteered to be First Aiders for a local event

Table Top Sale

Camping Adult Leader Training

Table Top Sale

September 2019

Blandford Scout Hut

Fundraising

Leaders Family Camp

Camping Adult Leader Training

Camping Adult Leader Training

September 2019

Blandford Scout Hut

Camping Adult Leader Training

Camping Adult Leader Training

Camping Adult Leader Training

Well done to Toby and Darren (Scout Leaders) for attending this training over a whole, very cold, November weekend with other Leaders from across the County.

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