2nd Brooklands Scout Group

Scouts Chariot Race : 2-4 October

What a great weekend and a great result. Over the weekend of 2-4 October the scouts entered two teams into the Bispham Hall Chariot Race. The annual event is held over a 1 km course round the camp site and over a number of obstacles, including crossing the murky lake. We entered two teams. The second team did really well finishing 28th out of 63 teams and narrowly missing the top twenty run off on the Sunday morning. The A team however with a time of 9 minutes 54 seconds qualified comfortably for thr run off. On the Sunday morning they excelled themselves taking a miniute if their time on Saturday and finished 5th overall. A brilliant result and the best we have had in the ten years we have entered. Click Here for the photos...

Back To The Future Camp

Well, well, well - the summer camp happened over the weekend of 3/4/5 July - and boy did it happen! The theme was Back To The Future with a smattering of Back to Basics - the teams were competing across 16 challenges over the weekend including backwards cooking, rocket launching, nature quiz, map reading, tower building, tent pitching - and of course entertaining the squad around the camp fire on Saturday evening. It really was a great weekend, and thanks must go to Clive and all the other leaders and helpers who put in a lot of work to make it such a great time for the kids as well as the adults. Photos and scores below - congratulations to Team E as the overall winner!

Click here for the Team scores across the challenges....
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Chocks Away!!!

Matthew Calderbank, a pilot from Flybe, visited the Beavers in April to talk about what it is like to be a pilot and fly aeroplanes. All the Beavers loved it and of course it fired their imaginations - Buzz had a job in tearing the boys away from Matthew at hometime! The Beavers were working towards their Air Activities badge. Click Here for the photos...

Pike View Hike 2009

Over the weekend of 25/26 April a team from 2nd Brooklands took part in the 2009 Pike View Hike, located in the area of Rivington Pike. Out of 30 teams, 2nd Brooklands came 4th - a great result very well done! Click Here for the photos...

Chief Scout Award for Cubs

2nd Brooklands Cubs received their chief scout awards at Dunham where they enjoyed a great afternoon of activities such as canoeing, raft, building, archery, shooting and crafts, such as walk on custard, badge making, smoking a tile, plus many more, wow. Well done lads. Click Here...

Omega Survival Camp

In September the scout sections entered two teams of four lads into the district Omega survival camp at Middlewood Scout Camp. The camp is run every two years and the boys have to build themselves a shelter and sleep in it overnight. The weekend is run as a competition with the teams gaining marks for the constuction of their shelter, the use of natural materials and the addition of creature comforts.The teams also have to cook themselves a meal without utensils from given indredients.
During the weekend the teams are also given survival tips and shown how to aquire "Food for Free" form the countryside. The highlight of the weekend is a demonstration of how to skin a rabbit or gut a fish.
Sixteen teams entered this year's competition and our teams excelled themselves finishing 1st and 2nd. Well done to all the lads who took part. They all had a great weekend and achieved a fantastic result. Click Here for the photos...

Dunham "Top Gear" Winter Camp

The cubs got together for a Top Gear themed winter cap at Dunham Park in February - go-karts, wide games, Top Gear video, obstacle courses, camp fires, Lotus Esprit, jungle riddles, early morning walks, even guest appearences from Clarkson, Hamster and the STIG - WOW this camp had it all!!!!! Click Here for the photos...

Forrest Camp Lads 'n' Ads

On the weekend of 4th - 6th July 2008 2nd Brooklands made camp at Forrest Scout Camp, Sandiway.....Click Here for the photos.