1st Woldingham Scout Group News
It has been another brilliant month for the members of 1st Woldingham Scout Group. As you may remember, in 2022, 1st Woldingham Scouts worked incredibly hard to establish the Woldingham Parish Boundary Path to celebrate the Queen’s Jubilee and lately have been working hard to maintain it! Since our Cubs and Scouts love the opportunity to stay active in the fresh air of our local countryside, in early October they gathered up with gusto their gloves and secateurs and set off to clear winter debris and chop away encroaching brambles from the path. They also used this as an opportunity to work towards their Navigator Badges. If you haven’t already explored this path, we encourage you to dust off your walking boots and give it a go as it is a fantastic walking route. It wasn’t all work though on this particular Saturday. Our young people stopped to set up triangas and prepared and enjoyed a well-deserved hot chocolate. What better way to spend a Saturday morning?!
With half-term holidays in sight and bonfire night just a few weeks away, our Group met up at Scout HQ to make our very own effigies of Guy Fawkes. The Beavers, Cubs and Scouts brought along old clothes, string, straw and paper for stuffing and, burning with ideas, set to work creating their very own Guy! The resultant bunch of Guy Fawkes were a handsome sight, a little creepy in some cases, but altogether hilarious! It seemed a shame to think that they would soon all be going up in smoke but sadly such was the fate of our Group’s flaming brilliant creations!
After half-term holidays, 1st Woldingham Scout Group gathered at The Glebe to support another village community litter pick. Working towards their Community Impact badges, our Beavers, Cubs and Scouts donned their stylish high-vis bibs and set off in family groups with litter picker pincers and rubbish bags in hand. Having covered various routes around the village, they returned with an enormous amount of rubbish and then enjoyed some well-deserved cake! Well done and thank you to everyone for working so hard! It makes such a difference to get rid of all of that litter.
In November we were also proud to watch our Scout Group and flag bearers parade from our HQ to St Paul’s Church for the Remembrance Day ceremony and Church service. This is always an important event in our Scouting calendar because, together with the rest of the community, our youngest generation are afforded the opportunity to remember and be educated about those who have given their life for our freedom and our country.
Clare Gaweda
