Badges!

So last night was a successful night of planning and coming up with some badge ideas - good to see you so keen to do the work! Below is the list of badges you all selected with links to the requirements for each badge. Its now up to you to start bringing in the evidence and doing the work to gain these badges, we will have regular catch ups and try to build some of it into Explorer evenings. For anyone who wasnt here this week, please choose 3 badges from the links below.

Activity badges - https://members.scouts.org.uk/supportresources//search?cat=9,88,783
Staged badges - https://members.scouts.org.uk/supportresources/search/?cat=9,88,784

Molly	chef	hillwalker	fundraising
Oliver	skiing	digital citizen	mountain biking	camper
Aaron	hillwalker	survival skills	caving
Will	chef	digital citizen
Tom C	motor sports	caving	hillwalker
Joey	racquet sports	camper
Sam	mountain biking	naturalist
James	naturalist	water activities	hillwalker
Stirling	mountain biking	digital citizen	camper
Ruth	musician	hillwalker	naturalist
Owen	sailing	mountain biking	motor sports
Caz	chef	life saver	global issues
Biz	skiing	motor sports	caving	snowboarding
Ben	mountain biking	physical recreation	sailing
Matt	sailing	water activities	mountain biking
Elliott	musician

12 months of camping

So this year we are taking on a new challenge of a camp every month, so here is the plan at the moment. This is open to your suggestions and dates will be fixed as soon as possible so keep checking back for updates as we go

date	Month	Theme	Location	Organising leader
8th 9th 10th	January	winter camp	Gilwell	phil
26-28th	February	Ice breaker	Beaudesert	phil/luke
TBC	March	survival	Bickley Coppice	luke
25~29th	March	Lake District		alan / mountain team
2nd++	April	Monopoly Challenge	London	???
6~8th	May	archery - national comp	Phasels wood	Luke
TBC	June	lake district		luke
TBC	July	peddlecarts		pete s
TBC	August	YH hike		all
TBC	September	london		luke
TBC	October	rifles	Bisley	alan
TBC	November	bonfire camp	Forest Camp, Cheshire	luke
TBC	December	st brevals		alan

Drum Corps.......

Drum Corps will start next Thursday (the 14th of January) - normal time and place :)