Dragons Den – Camp Gadget 24th April 2023 (updated 24th April 2023) | By Sean Edwards 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 22nd April 2023 | By Sean Edwards Apologies for the delay, please find our next terms programme. Please also get future event dates in your diary now! DateActivityLocationOther Details17/04/2023Wide Games – Stanford – LeadersStanfordOutdoor Clothing24/04/2023Hike (Charlwood) – SeanCharlwoodHike Clothing01/05/2023NO MEETING – BANK HOLIDAYN/AN/A08/05/2023NO MEETING – KINGS CORONATIONN/AN/A15/05/2023Rounders @ Grattons Park – ElliottGrattons ParkSports Clothes22/05/2023Backwards Cooking @ Stanford – PhilStanfordFull Uniform29/05/2023NO MEETING – HALF TERM 05/06/2023Fitness Training / Media & Film Making – Phil / Sean4th Worth Scout HQSports Clothes for Fitness12/06/2023Climbing and Abseiling @ Copthorne Prep – SeanCopthorne Prep SchoolScarves Only19/06/2023Meeting TBC – JackTBCTBC26/06/2023Volleyball @ Grattons Park – SeanGrattons ParkSports Clothes03/07/2023Monkey Bridge – Extreme Pioneering Challenge! – Sean, Phil and Allen4th Worth Scout HQFull Uniform10/07/2023Summer Camp Equipment Maintenance / Games @ HQ4th Worth Scout HQFull Uniform17/07/2023End of Term BBQ / Water Fight – Katie / Clair4th Worth Scout HQCasual Clothing Key Event Dates DateEventOther Details29/04/2023 – 01/05/2023Silver D of E PractiseNew Forest26/08/2023 – 28/08/2023Silver D of E AssessedNew Forest20/05/2023 – 21/05/2023Bronze D of E AssessedAshdown Forest08/07/2023Sailing Supeta (Group 1)TBCDate TBCSailing Supeta (Group 2)TBC22/07/2023 – 29/07/2023Summer Camp with DrakeYorkshire22/07/2023 – 29/07/2023Gold Expedition PractiseCombined with Summer Camp07/10/2023Downsman HikeSouth Downs29/09/2023 – 01/10/2023Survival CampStanford Scout Campsite01/12/2023 – 03/12/2023Winter CampBentley Copse29/03/2024 – 01/04/2024Mountain Activity Camp 2024North Wales (Cornel) Shackleton-Programme-Summer-2023-1Download
Shackleton ESU – Mountain Activity Camp 2023 10th April 2023 (updated 10th April 2023) | By Sean Edwards 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 full on day, we returned to the site for dinner and a well deserved rest! On Saturday we headed out bright and early to Edale to setout on our day of hill walking on Kinder Scout. 2 groups scaled up Grindsbrook Clough with some introductory scrambling. The third group headed up a slightly easier ascent so they could familiarise themselves with hill walking. After another glorious day of walking, we returned to the campsite for dinner and started to strike camp. On Sunday, we had our earliest start yet so we could leave site at 9 and be fully packed. Needless to say, Explorers dont like early morning when we woke them up at 6.15am! After striking camp, loading the minibus and trailer, we travelled to Poole Cavern for a cave tour before eating lunch and travelling back to Crawley. The camp was a great success, all of the Explorers behaved well however if we would have asked for one thing, that was warmer temperatures over night – having ice on tents and sleeping bag outers in the morning isn’t too pleasant!
