The Scout section welcomes boys and girls from ten and a half to fourteen years of age.
The leadership team consists of Geoff Hornby, as Scout leader, Bob Baird and Kathryn Alexander, all of whom have a wealth of experience within the Scout movement.
Because we are Sea Scouts, our uniform consists of official light blue shirt and navy cargo pants. We wear a blue and white neckerchief which can be bought from us, which is knotted; a tradition of the group.
Meetings are held during the autumn and spring from 7:00pm till 9:00pm on Friday evenings at the Scout Hall. In the summer season our activities are based at Budworth Mere from 6:30pm till 9:00pm.
The Scout troop is run on the patrol system with a patrol leader and assistant patrol leader. We have four patrols, with an occasional senior patrol for older Scouts who are preparing to transfer to the Explorer section.
We believe that we offer the Scouts a varied, exciting and balanced programme with a target of attaining the Chief Scouts Gold Award.
During the summer Season our Friday nights are spent at Budworth Sailing Club, where our water activities take place. We use their facilities and equipment for our dinghy sailing tuition. We have a fleet of kayaks for our paddling tuition run on BCU lines. Our leaders are appropriately qualified to enable these activities to take place. Our aim is to enable the Scouts to gain RYA dinghy sailing qualifications, kayak paddling experience, and bucket loads of fun!
We offer the Scouts the opportunity to take part in a week’s camp, which for instance in 2013 was at Waddecar, an official Scout camp site in the Trough of Bowland at the end of May, as well as a district camp at Tatton in June and the possibility of smaller weekend camps at Forest camp site, Sandiway.
We try to take part in Mid Cheshire district events, ranging from night wide games to St George’s day parade.
Our aim is to provide inclusive, challenging, mental, physical and spiritual activities for our Scouts, through the demanding period of their young lives and part of our reward is to see them smiling, occasionally at us!
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Our famous Burns Night is coming back!
Yes, it’s true! Following an enforced, ‘rona-related 2-year hiatus, we have decided that our famous Burns NIght will be back next year! Save the date: Saturday 28th January 2023 The place: Weaverham Community Centre The time: 6:30pm for a 7:00pm start The cost: £22.50 per person What do you get for your money? So why …
AGM 2021
We held our AGM in the new Hall on 10th November, and here are the following Section reports: Explorers Like many of the other sections, Explorers saw a reduction in numbers when our meetings went online. We now have 13 members registered and usually get at least 10 at our regular Friday Night meetings. We …
Welcome 2021!
Well, we hope you all had a very Happy Christmas and New Year – or at least, as happy as you could given the circumstances. 2020 is now behind us, but we have immediately entered into a new lockdown as we start the New Year. Once again, this means that face-to-face meetings have had to …
Scouting during lockdown: November 2020
Update November 2020: It all started on 18th March 2020 – Scouting in the UK was suspended due to the Covid-19 pandemic as the whole country goes into lockdown. No face to face meetings, no outdoor activities, no camping! At this stage, no-one knew how long the lockdown would last. Whilst everyone adjusted to the …
Virtual Family Camp: 23-24th May 2020
Well, we did it! Nothing like being ambitious. Despite our lack of experience in the finer workings of zoom, we decided to offer our sections the opportunity to take part in our virtual family camp. If things had been normal the cubs and scouts would have been away at Blackwell Court for their annual Camp. …