News

• District Beavers' Mole Trophy 2010

  9th October 2010

  Beaver Scouts from all around Swanley compete for the Mole Trophy.  Dozens of Beaver Scouts from all over the District gathered for a day of fun challenges and to see who would take the Mole Trophy back to their Beaver Scout Colony. The challenges tested Map Reading, Memory,...

• Challenge The Chief

  3rd October 2010

  Bear Grylls visits Kent      The Chief Scout, Bear Grylls, flew in by helicopter to face 30-second challenges from the Scouts and Explorer Scouts of Kent. The event took place at The Barn, the new home of Scouting in Kent, where he also dedicated a stone...

• Cub Scouts Invested

  28th September 2010

  Four new members were invested today, bringing the Pack’s numbers up to sixteen. It’s just as an important occasion when a Cub Scout is invested, as it is in all sections of Scouting. They have to make the Cub Scout Promise on their own and in front of the whole Pack: “I...

• Cubs' Astronomy Day

  25th September 2010

  With Intergalactic Space Passports at the ready, twelve Cub Scouts passed through the airlock and into a space-themed adventure.   The afternoon started off with making & launching rockets, followed by transporting some radio-active waste, zero-g space transportation...

• Beaver Scouts Invested

  23rd September 2010

  A record number of Beaver Scouts invested. Six new members were invested today, bringing the Colony’s numbers up to eighteen. It’s an important occasion when a Beaver Scout is invested, as they have to make the Beaver Scout Promise on their own and in front of the whole...

• District SPLOSH! - Rafting Competition

  12th September 2010

  All the Scouts meet for a raft racing competition. Every two years, all the Scout Troops around Swanley gather at Leybourne Lake Country Park for a raft racing competition. This year, there was a pirate theme to the event.  Arrr, me hearties.   By the Powers!  This...

• Fun Night

  22nd July 2010

  The whole Scout Group has an evening of fun and food. It's become a tradition now, that the last meeting of the summer is a night for the whole Scout Group to have some fun and food up at the District camp site in Farningham Wood. The Beaver Scouts, Cub Scouts and Scouts all took...

• Chief Scout Awards

  22nd July 2010

  A year of Chief Scout's Awards. We didn't just have fun up at Farningham Wood tonight as Steve, our District Commissioner, dropped in to present a Chief Scout's Gold Award.  This is the highest award in the Scout section, and requires that eight Challenge Awards have...

• Halls Green Camp

  11th July 2010

  A dozen Cub Scouts and Scouts have an action packed weekend at Halls Green. The Scout Group were very fortunate to be allotted one of the free weekends for youth groups at the Halls Green Adventure Centre in a scheme run the past few years by Sevenoaks District Council. The scouts went...

• District Camp

  27th June 2010

  The bi-annual District Camp very nearly didn’t take place this year when we had to change venue at the last minute. Thanks to the generosity of the owners of the St Clere’s Estate, West Kingsdown it still went ahead, as you can see ! Nearly 200 Scouts and their Leaders came for a...