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Jubilee Camp
4th June 2012
Over 200 scouts from Groups in Swanley District celebrated the Queen's Diamond Jubilee weekend with an amazing camp. It was a great event with "Its a knock out", Climbing, Abseiling, Archery, Air Rifle shooting, Low ropes, Disco, Treasure hunt and load more, and a fantastic...
Beavers Make A Splash!
10th March 2012
The Beaver Scouts make a splash at the Annual Swimming Gala by winning the trophy. The youngest of the scout sections at Crockenhill outshone the older scouts with the following results: Race Result 1 Width...
Freezer Camp
12th February 2012
This year's Freezer Camp was truly freezing with several cm of snow on the ground, and predicted overnight temperatures of -4° C ! So, the decision was made to stay in the Scout Hut on the Friday night and setup camp Saturday morning. Otherwise, we might have all frozen...
Christmas Bag Packing
19th December 2011
Christmas fund raising event for Swanley Scouts Once again, the ASDA Supermarket in Swanley kindly agreed to host our annual Christmas fund raising event known as "Bag Packing", and for the first time it lasted for three days. "Bag Packing" is when dozens of Cub Scouts and Scouts from...
Night Hike & Ballista Pioneering Camp
23rd October 2011
The first camp since the summer holidays started off with a cross-country night hike from the Scout Hut to the District Campsite in Farningham Woods. To make it extra special, six new Scouts were invested under the M25 at a subway not far from Eagle Heights. As you can see...
Fun Night
21st July 2011
The whole Scout Group has an evening of fun - and food! It is tradition now, that our last meeting before the summer break is a time for the whole Scout Group to meet up at the District camp site in Farningham Wood for some fun and food. As you can see, we had a bit of rain, but that didn't...
Outdoor & Survival Skills Camp
3rd July 2011
One of the first badges that our young people work towards on moving up to the Scout section is the Outdoor Challenge Award. This badge is all about learning to camp and cook outdoors, but there’s nothing like sleeping under the stars in the summer. So, we also decided to start work on the...
Joint Activity Camp at Downe
5th June 2011
Cub Scouts and Scouts from Crockenhill have an activity packed camp at Downe. For three of the last four years, the Cub Scouts and Scouts from Crockenhill have gone on a summer camp together. Last year we went to Halls Green, and two years before that we were at the...
Quex Park Birthday Challenge
22nd May 2011
This year we are celebrating 25 years since the start of Beaver Scouts. Today’s visit to the Powell-Cotton Museum at Quex Park, near Margate is the first of two exciting days out arranged by Kent County Scouts in recognition of this important milestone. Our Beaver Scouts spent the...
AGM & Fun Night
7th May 2011
A Night at the Races with Reports and Awards The Scout Group had a fun social night, interspersed with our AGM. As part of the AGM, the members of the Group Exec have to stand down for re-election; but we are pleased to announce that they were unanimously re-elected to their...
St George's Day
1st May 2011
Lord Baden-Powell chose St. George to be The Patron Saint of The Scout Association as he felt that he set a good example of faith, courage and perseverance. So, on the nearest Sunday to St. George's day (23rd April), Scouts all over the world gather to reaffirm their Promise and...
Pioneering Camp
27th March 2011
Pioneering is the art of using ropes and wooden spars to create a structure. Over the past few years we have constructed an aerial runway, a go-kart and a sky-saw. This year, we started our camp with a trip to Pirate’s Cove, Bluewater where we had a round of Adventure Golf and...
UFO's Over Crockenhill?
18th February 2011
Strange lights seen from Crockenhill. Strange lights were seen on the fields to the east of Crockenhill on Friday night. Fortunately, instead of "little green men", this time it was the Cub Scouts on a night hike. For some it was their first hike, so being at night made it that extra...
Freezer Hike & Camp
6th February 2011
After the Centenary Camp of last October, the Scouts had their first camp of the New Year this weekend, and it wasn’t as much freezing as it was windy. After pitching our tents, we gathered around the campfire for hot-dogs and a sing-a-long. Emerging after a very...
Rudolf Catches Flue!
18th December 2010
Rudolf must have been flying around too many windy chimneys in preparation for his busiest night of the year, as he came down with "flue" last week. This unfortunately led to the Scout Group having to cancel the Sleigh Pull around the village for the first time. As ever, it was for...
Group Christmas Party
16th December 2010
After a year full of fun and adventure, the Scout Group "relaxes" at their Christmas party. After a year filled with music, go-karting, scarecrows, canoeing, castles, sport, sleepovers, scavenger hunts, a District camp, a joint camp, a village fayre, rafting, astronomy,...
Christmas Bag Packing
21st November 2010
Scouts from all over Swanley meet for their major Christmas fund raising event. Once again, the ASDA Supermarket in Swanley kindly agreed to host our annual Christmas fund raising event known as Bag Packing. This resulted in dozens of Cub Scouts, Scouts and Explorer Scouts from...
2010 Commonwealth Games
11th November 2010
The former Crockenhill Primary School pupil Grace Clements came and shared her experiences of India anf the Commonwealth Games with the Beaver Scouts this week. For those who don't yet know, Grace competed in the heptathlon at this year's Commonwealth Games in India, and won the...
Centenary Camp
31st October 2010
Our Scout Group is 100 years old this year. So, to celebrate, we had a weekend activity camp at Wilberforce Scout Centre. On the Saturday morning we had some inside activities, whilst the outdoor ones were being set up. Some of Scouts...
Scouts’ Outdoor Skills Day
16th October 2010
Scouts from 1st Crockenhill & 6th Swanley brave the weather to learn key outdoor skills. Fifteen Scouts and linking Cub Scouts from two Groups had fun learning outdoor skills on a joint event run at the District camp site. As Scouts spend a lot of time camping, it is important...
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...
ShelterBox Scavenger Hunt
12th June 2010
Nearly 500 Scouts and their Leaders descended on London for a fun-filled, action packed day solving clues and going the extra mile for ShelterBox. Over 90 different teams were challenged to navigate around London by following a series of clues while carrying one of the iconic green...
District Beavers’ Sleepover
22nd May 2010
Beaver Scouts from all over Swanley District took part in a sleepover at Wilberforce Scout Camp, Keston. During the day they went pond dipping and then tackled the assault course, before finishing off the day with a camp fire circle. On...
District Beavers’ Sports Day
9th May 2010
District Beavers’ Sports Day For more photos, click here. << Newer Older >> ...
Kent Cubs’ Day Out
8th May 2010
Cub Scouts from all over Kent invade Hastings for the day. They had a very packed itinerary, and got a chance to be a Norman soldier and shoot some arrows at the Castle. Click here for our photos, and here for the full report and more photos on the Kent...
District JAWS – Just Add Water
2nd May 2010
Scouts and Leaders from Swanley District converged on Mote Park, Maidstone for the District Water Activity Day. With it raining ‘cats and dogs’ you would have thought that they were wet enough, but they all seemed to want to get wetter. There were requests for capsize drills...
Scarecrow Competition
1st May 2010
Every two years Crockenhill village holds a scarecrow competition, and this year's theme was cartoon characters. With the Scout section having recently returned from a pioneering weekend with a go-kart that they made and rode (click here for that news article), all...
St George's Day
25th April 2010
Lord Baden-Powell chose St. George to be The Patron Saint of The Scout Association as he felt that he set a good example of faith, courage and perseverance. So, on the nearest Sunday to St. George's day (23rd April), Scouts all over the world gather to reaffirm their Promise and...
Go-Kart Pioneering Camp
11th April 2010
On our previous Pioneering Camp we came across an old car tyre in the woods. That got us thinking, what could we make with wheels…a go-kart of course !! So, after collecting some empty cable drums, we set to it. We started off with the large wheels at the front, but as this...
District Beavers’ Music Day
21st February 2010
District Beavers’ Music Day For more photos, click here. << Newer Older >> ...
Freezer Camp
14th February 2010
Every January there is a "Freezer Camp" held at Gilwell Park, the headquarters of the Scout Association. This year we decided to have our own, but come the day we had to postpone because of the heavy snow. Still, when we did get out in February,...
Snowbound three invested at last
20th January 2010
Due to the adverse weather conditions 1st Crockenhill had to cancel their January freezer camp and were unable to invest a trio of new Scouts - which was a great shame as it would have made a great story. Kira, George and Morgan all joined Beavers at the same time, went through...
Santa Claus comes to Town
19th December 2009
The Beavers, Cubs and Scouts certainly lived up to the Scouting motto “Be Prepared”, when they rose to the challenge of helping Santa Claus spread the Season's good cheer to the village of Crockenhill. They set off with Rudolph and Santa at the helm, and with lanterns a glow and buckets...
Sky-Saw Pioneering Camp
25th October 2009
After being inspired by an article in the Scout Leader's magazine, Mark thought that it would be good fun to make a Sky-Saw on this Pioneering Camp. After this success, he's now planning on making some Flintstone-style vehicles. Yaba daba doo... See how we got on at...
Kent International Jamboree
6th August 2009
Three of our Scouts went to KIJ09 on a joint camp with Scouts from 2nd Swanley. In total, there were over 2,500 young people and leaders at the Jamboree; and our Sub Camp was host to Nigerian, French and Canadian Scouts to mention just a few. In addition to the huge number of...
BT Awards Results
2nd July 2009
At the presentation ceremony today for the BT Chairman's Awards 2009, Richard is "Highly Commended" in the Youth category for his exceptional commitment to volunteering. The worthy winner is Kidz R Us, and Bridgwater Sea Cadets are also Highly Commended. In 2009/10 BT Community...
BT Awards Film
18th June 2009
Having already been recognised under their BT Community Champions scheme, Richard (our Group Scout Leader) has now been short-listed for the BT Chairman's Awards 2009. The winners will be announced next month, but a film crew was sent down to Swanley to see 1st Crockenhill...
Survival Camp
14th June 2009
Did you know that our new Chief Scout is none other than the world famous survivalist Bear Grylls? So, it seemed only right that we held our very first survival Camp the same summer he was appointed. We all made a temporary shelter, known as a Bivy, or Bivouac. Even the...
District Cub Scout Camp
31st May 2009
130 Cub Scouts and 30 Leaders spend two nights in tents, cooking their own meals and having a great time at the District Cub Scout Camp. << Newer Older >> ...
Top Secret Project
8th April 2009
Crockenhill Scout among the first in the World to meet the new Chief Scout - Bear Grylls. Early on Wednesday morning Mark, the Scout Leader, drove Samuel, one of our Scouts, and Deanna, an Explorer Scout, nearly a hundred miles to a clandestine location where we were honoured to...
District Cross Country Competition
1st March 2009
Nearly fifty young people turn out for the bi-annual Swanley District cross country competition. The bi-annual District event was very nearly cancelled as we thought that the next generation wouldn’t be interested. We were so glad that we didn’t, as nearly fifty young people...
Map Reading Competition
14th February 2009
It was a bit chilly for camping outdoors at the start of 2009 with all that snow, so we had a Map Reading Challenge. The Scouts had to hike from Farningham to Crockenhill via Swanley Village. Two patrols took part, and the winning patrol completed the course nearly an hour ahead of...
Hiking Weekend
9th November 2008
Hiking can be an excellent activity for Scouts, not only from a physical fitness aspect but also to encourage them to develop the skills of planning, teamwork and leadership. So, with that in mind, the Scouts were dropped off at Otford Station and hiked the nine or so miles back to...
Aerial Runway Pioneering Camp
28th September 2008
The Scouts have an exciting weekend pioneering camp making and using an aerial runway. Two A-Frames were made and positioned at the top and bottom of a gulley in our District Campsite. A rope with a bosun's chair was then lead over the top of the A-Frames and anchored to...
District SPLOSH! - Rafting Competition
21st September 2008
Every two years, all the Scout Troops around Swanley gather at Leybourne Lakes for a raft racing competition. It looks a lot like a Scrapheap Challenge to start with, but the finished result was ten times better. And to prove it, Crockenhill Scouts won! For...
District Incident Hike
28th June 2008
Another thing we do as Scouts are mind-boggling challenges, whilst hiking around a course. We call them Incident Hikes. At this year’s District Incident Hike our Troop won the Incidents, but lost the Hike by a mere fifteen minutes. This resulted in a valiant second place...
Group Camp
14th June 2008
One of the best things about the Scouts is that we go camping - a lot. This summer we had a Group camp where those in the Scout section were being taught the following skills: Pitching and striking a tent Lighting and cooking on an open fire (Backwoods cooking) Setting up...
