St Georges Day 2023

On Sunday 11 of our beavers, cubs and scouts braved the elements and attended the first district St Georges Day event since before Covid, and what an amazing day they had. Despite it being a tad muddy and at times raining quite hard not a word of complaint was heard from anyone. The youngsters got to pick from 36 different activities spread throughout Frylands, not only were the activities fun but getting to them was a mini muddy, slippery adventure in itself!

Whilst we didn’t manage to take part in every activity, we did get a fair amount done. Between the group we managed; lego robot wars, grass sledging, longbow archery, sumo wrestling, zorb football, air rifles, hoverboards, crafts including soap carving, rope and catapult making, disc golf, human demolition, bungee run, inflatable slide and rock climbing. There was also a flag ceremony where we were treated to a re-enactment of St George slaying the dragon (apparently it was 100% definitely completely factual and not at all made up!!), we had a visit from Bromley Deputy Mayor and several Queens/Kings scout awards were given out, the highest award available to a young person within the scouting movement. Whilst none of these went to our group it is an amazing achievement and definitely something I would encourage our younger people to strive for. Finally, every young person and leader attending renewed our promises.

A big thank you to the leaders (Kevin and Wayne) that attended to facilitate our younger people, without them giving up their own time we would not have been able to attend the day. Also, a massive THANK YOU to Tom and his youth district team for organising the day, I cannot even imagine the administration required to organise this event which had over 1000 young people attend.

Please see the pictures below for an idea of what your child got up to, the password will be emailed to you separately.