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September 2019 September 2019

BERE REGIS SCOUT GROUP

Explorer News
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August 12 – 19 was our summer cycling trip to France
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and Belgium to visit the WW1 battlefield sites – more
news and photos of our activities will be published next month.

Scout News

The first week of
t h e s c h o o l us beans, tomatoes and courgettes over the summer holiday, very welcome
holidays 12 scouts, fresh veg with zero food-miles! It is also nice to have flowers in the
one Explorer and 2 planters. Many thanks again to Ian and Di for doing this with us!
Leaders enjoyed 6
days camping in Great new term ahead - we will be covering the Air Activities Stage 1 badge,
the New Forest at and visiting the Gliding School to find out a few things about flying! Also on the
the Ferny Croft menu is cooking, and Health and Fitness, Skills Challenge badge, and plans for
Activity Centre. musical evenings of different kinds. The first half term will be outside where
We had some possible, and then as the evenings draw in we will be doing our Autumn Night
amazing weather Hike and learn something about survival.
intercepted with a
thunder and lightning storm and then Beavers is for boys and girls aged 5yrs 9mths to 8yrs: if you are interested in
the dreaded rain just as we packed up joining the fun please contact Turtle - Liz Teather, on 01929 471216
to come home. Everyone tried lots of
new activities from abseiling to facing Scout Hut Hire
their fear of heights in the gladiator
challenge. We enjoyed making pizza The Scout Hut is available for hire, particularly during the daytime – rates from
in the outdoor pizza oven, bbq’d on £7.50 per hour. For more information, please contact Andrea Marshall on
our camp fire and ate lots of camp 01929 472588 or 0788 422 6445, andrealynnmarshall@hotmail.com
favourites including hot chocolate and

marshmallow. We walked to the local
train station, had to catch two trains Contact us
and then another walk for our visit to the Lymington Sea Water Baths where we
had great fun on the huge inflatable course and also enjoyed fish and chips If anyone would like further information about Bere Regis Scout Group or the
for lunch. Kingsbere Explorer Scout Unit, all the contact details for the individual sections
(Beavers, Cubs, Scouts and Explorers) are available in the village directory at
the back of this magazine. General enquiries and offers of help/assistance:

Beaver News Neal Unitt-Jones on 01929 472273.
We had a fabulous end of term in the colony with Watersports at Studland - Scout Group Publicity: Andrea Marshall on 01929 472588 and Helen Unitt-Jones
on 01929 472273.
Turtle got very wet towing kayaks....
The garden the beavers created for their Gardener Badge has given many of

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