Our Blog
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Community work at Brentwood Cathedral
Last night the Scouts spent two and a half hours helping to maintain the graveyard at Brentwood Cathedral. Collecting all of the leaves and generally tidying up all of the green areas.
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Scout Leaders run a base at Essex County Marathon in the Peak District
This weekend 3rd Brentwood Scout Leaders Minty, Radler, G, Skip and Theresa all helped out at the Essex County Marathon running an activity base. The event was based in the Peak District, with HQ at the ...
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There’s no such thing as a Gruffalo!
The Beavers spent an adventurous 2 hours over at Thorndon Country Park last night, exploring the woods for bugs and all things slimy! After turning up a number of slugs, spiders, woodlouse and even toads, I think the most shocking find was the Gruffalo! A ...
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Back-to-basics camping in Thriftwood
The Scouts organised a back-to-basics camp to brush-up on their core scouting skills such as lighting fires, pitching tents and cooking on open fires. They were joined by the Cubs for the afternoon as part of an activity to go towards their Essex Challenge Award. The ...
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Fire-lighting in Thriftwood
Last night was the first night back for 3rd Brentwood Scouts and we met at Thriftwood Camp Site for an evening of back-to-basics camp skills. The Scouts split into two groups and raced to light a fire and burn through a length of string between two ...
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Summercamp isn’t over until…
Summercamp isn't over until the Skips have all been out for a curry! Last night (after a two-day delay) the 3rd Brentwood Scout leaders went our for a curry to celebrate another successful Summercamp. This was the first camp missed by Sean for 32 years. We'll get ...
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Cubs make a splash at Thriftwood
The Cubs had great fun this afternoon at the Watersplash. They were launched in canoes, pulled on the crocodile (very fast!) and fell from the zip wire into the cold muddy water of the canoeing lake. The bouncy castles were very popular...they didn't involve getting ...
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Summer Camp Awards
To keep the tradition at the end of Summer Camp in Downe we had the award ceremony The awards were handed out as follows: Super Scout - Patrick Tiernan Awarded for contributions to the camp above what is expected Most improved Scout Award - Joshua Hill Awarded for the biggest ...
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Go-Karting speed-trials
The main activity for today was Go-Karting. We visited an excellent circuit where we drove Petrol karts that went at 45mph for the Scouts and 65mph for the adults. The first group (Scouts) went out for their "warm-up" session and recorded lap times of around 46 ...
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2nd day over. Messages from the Scouts…
Well, the 2nd day is over and everyone is suitably tired. Here are a few comments from some very sleepy Scouts: Lucy - Had a brilliant day, except for a load of freaky zombies scaring the life out of me. Faced my fears and went on ...
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Scouts visit Thorpe Park
A fantastic day at Thorpe Park today. We got there early and managed to get on all of the big rides. Leaders took the tactical route and did the "wet ones" first, while the scouts went for adrenalin first and then got soaked to the skin ...
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We arrived…
Well, after a mere 45 minutes travelling we arrived at Downe Scout activity centre. After ...
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International World Scout Jamboree evening
In preparation for the World Scout Jamboree, tonight we held an awareness evening exploring The Swedish language, Japanese Origami, and learning to tie the friendship knot. It was an excellent evening and we all had lots of fun.
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Summer Camp 2011
The final countdown has started and it's only 60 hours till we'll be leaving Brentwood for 3rd Brentwood Summer Camp 2011 at Downe!
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Sainsburys Active Kids 2011
I would just like to let you know that 3rd Brentwood Scout Group has today been the lucky recipient of an additional 11,000 vouchers from a school in Surrey. In addition to this, I would like to also call out a donation of 500 vouchers that ...
