The Essential Guide Magazine Culcheth - Sept/Oct 14 | Page 50

Essential Feature Scout Chamboree A Chamboree is a huge international camp, held every four years it offers a fantastic adventure with a wide variety of skills and activities. 2nd August Beavers came in Saturday morning for a busy day with crafts, skills, running round the camp site to find lots of super heroes and an opportunity to join the Cubs for lunch and non-stop chatter about what they’d been doing. 1st – 3rd August Cubs arrived the previous evening for an exciting weekend camp. It started with a welcome disco Friday evening which soon had the Cubs weaving their way around the marquee with their version of the conga dance. A hearty breakfast on Saturday saw the Cubs fuelled up ready for action as they conducted experiments galore and practised survival skills. Other activities included the climbing wall with lots of fun on the swings and bouncy castles. Sunday was another busy day making frisbees, rockets and a tug of war being enjoyed before the afternoon’s closing ceremony and time for home 2nd – 9th August Scouts arrived for a week long adventure with the Cubs joining them for the parade and opening ceremony in the evening. were in the group which had a day long visit to Liverpool on Sunday following a trail to take in the sights of the city. Back on the camp site the activities were split into half days so they spent a morning on conducting experiments with lots of creativity in the afternoon. Another day saw them practising survival skills including fire lighting: A fun afternoon saw them in fancy dress taking part in sumo wrestling before having a go on such as the bouncy castle and water slide. Thursday was a day at the Scout site at Tatton for kayaking, climbing, caving, the assault course and a race round on BMX bikes. Friday was another adventure day on site with archery and in the afternoon, games linked to other countries. A parade and closing ceremony took place in the evening. Saturday, tents down, pack and home for sleep! For more information about joining Beavers, Cubs, Scouts or for adults to join our leadership team. contact Christine on 077297 84121 or email gsl@1stculchethscouts. org.uk or see our web site: 1stculchethscouts.org. uk Our Scouts 50 Nine issues in Culcheth Lymm Great Sankey & Penketh Chapelford Stockton Heath & Appleton Thewlwall, Grappenhall & Latchford Birchwood Lowton & Golborne Newton-le-Willows