Dragons Den – Camp Gadget

This evening, the explorers designed and created Camp gadgets to be pitched to our panel of dragons in hope of securing a chocolate prize! The teams came up with some interesting ideas but the Sean Sitter scoped the first prize and secured the chocolate investment!

Shackleton Summer Term Programme 2023

Apologies for the delay, please find our next terms programme. Please also get future event dates in your diary now! Date Activity Location Other Details 17/04/2023 Wide Games – Stanford – Leaders Stanford Outdoor Clothing 24/04/2023 Hike (Charlwood) – Sean Charlwood Hike Clothing 01/05/2023 NO MEETING – BANK HOLIDAY N/A N/A 08/05/2023 NO MEETING – KINGS CORONATION N/A N/A 15/05/2023 Rounders @ Grattons Park – Elliott Grattons Park Sports Clothes 22/05/2023 Backwards Cooking @ Stanford – Phil Stanford Full Uniform 29/05/2023 NO MEETING – HALF TERM     05/06/2023 Fitness Training / Media & Film Making – Phil / Sean …

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Shackleton ESU – Mountain Activity Camp 2023

From Thursday 6th April to Sunday 9th April, Shackleton ESU held our Mountain Activity Camp in the Peak District. After departing Crawley at 10am, we travelled up to Gradbach Scout Campsite where we pitched our base camp before eating dinner and preparing the activity days ahead. On Friday after waking up and eating breakfast we headed to Windgather Rocks where we spent the day in glorious sunshine doing single pitch top rope climbing. We also set up a speed climb to see how quickly they could scale a simple climb with times between 8 seconds and 16 seconds. After a …

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Young people first: Safeguarding and Safety in Scouting

Wherever we go and whatever we do, we put young people’s safety and wellbeing first. Here's how.