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Issue: 010January 2014
1st Liphook Scout Group NewsletterEditorial: [email protected] Website: www.liphookscouts.org.uk
In this edition of the Newsletter
Scout Survival CampCarnivalPinewood DerbyShooting at BisleyJelly!Explotions!Scout Bonfire NightCub Christmas CampfireDistrict Cub Challenge andMastermind CompetitionRemembrance DayBeaver Funday Paultons ParkChristmas PostExplorers Skiing
Shackleton and Scott Troopsjoined together for an enjoya-ble (and sunny) Autumn Sur-vival Camp early in October.Using the woods behind Assist-ant Leader Ashley's Pirt's homenear Goodwood, they put uptheir bivvi shelters and stayedthe night out in the open. Scav-enging was the name of thegame - for masses of firewoodfor their cooking fires and forany food for free to be found inthe hedgerows -blackberries,sweet chestnuts,crab apples etc.All meals had tobe cooked ontheir open firesusing only sea-sonal, naturalingredients(chicken, wholecorn-on-the cob,potatoes, toma-toes, blackber-ries, apples etc).
Sunday morning was spentclearing the site so that no-onewould ever know LiphookScouts had been there andthen having a great wide gameand rides on Ashley's super-duper zip wire which rivals theone at Go Ape. No-one wenthome with any spare energy -but they had learned and donea lot.
AUTUMN SURVIVAL CAMPBy Sheila Woods
Above - Scouts foraging on the South Downs.Below - Cooking breakfast, sausages on sticks.
Shackleton Troop enjoyed anevening of team competitionsand sweets. From speed jellyeating to slow chocolate eatingwith forks whilst wearing ran-dom clothes.
Sweet Competitionfor ShackletonTroopby Jonathan Pontent
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Oakhanger Pack DistrictMastermind ChampionsBy Trevor Holden
On Sunday 17th November five teams fromacross the District took part in the bi-annualCub Challenge and Cub Mastermind Compe-titions. It was the closest Mastermind Competi-tion ever known with three teams finishing on 22points. However, by virtue of having no passes(and the other teams having one each) Oa-khanger Pack won the competition.
Wheatsheaf Pack came third in the Challengecompetition which was no mean feat with onlythree Cubs in their team (there should havebeen six in a team). Well done to the nine Cubsfrom Liphook who took part and had a wonderful
afternoon at Liss HQ. Congratulations to 1stLiss for winning the Cub Challenge competition.
Acting District Commissioner John Slaterpresents the Mastermind Trophy to theOakhanger Mastermind Team
PINEWOOD DERBY 2013 by Dick EyreAt the end of half term, all sections within theDistrict descended on Churchers College inPetersfield for an afternoon of racing, Pine-wood style. There were 175 cars entered thisyear and competitions were split into two sec-tions; the Speed Awards and the DesignAwards. Liphook were well represented by Bea-vers, Cubs and Scouts and walked away withseveral trophies.
In the Speed Awards William Myles won theCub Scout Race Final. In the Design Awardssection the were prizes for Theo Styles (1stBest Paint Job), Nathan Styles (1st Most Realis-tic), Oscar Peterson (3rd Most Realistic), OliverGunner (1st Most Futuristic) and Ethan McNa-mara (2nd Best Design).A massive well done to all those who won prizesand also those that didn’t but all in all a greatafternoon was had by all.
Above - Racing in full swing at ChurchersBelow - William Myles on the winners podi-um after winning the Cub Scout Final Race
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On Friday 15th Novembereighteen Cubs Scouts fromDownlands Cub Pack spentthe night at Explosion: TheMuseum of Naval Firepower.After a quick tour of some of thegrounds, including Napoleonicera defences, the remains ofgunpowder production areasand a World War 2 air raid shel-ter, the Cubs went into teamsfor the evening’s activitieswhich culminated in the crea-tion of water rockets. Withropes successfully knotted andunknotted, codes broken andwater rockets fired the Cubs,leaders and two teenage help-ers settled down for their sleep-over with the added enjoymentof the film “A Night At The Mu-seum”,After breakfast on the Saturdaymorning the Cubs, helpers andleaders were treated to a sur-prise change of program. Phil,the museum staff member lead-ing the activities, had got some
authenticweapons rang-ing from anofficer’s swordfrom Nelson’snavy to a Rus-sian rifle fromWW2, from themuseum’s ar-moury for peo-ple to look atand, undersupervision,even handle.Amongst theweapons was a rifle that hadbeen built as a prop of the re-cent Oscar nominated film
“War Horse”. The group thenproceeded across to Port-smouth Navy Dockyards wherethey saw a boat in dry dockthat was used in the battle atGallipoli, looked round the Na-val Museum before going intoAction Stations, the interactivelearning zone. After watching afilm about the on-going battle
with modern piracy they Cubsenjoyed burning off what ener-gy they had left on the climbingwall and other activities in Ac-tion Stations before headingback to Gosport to get the mini-bus home.The Cubs, leaders and helpersreturned home exhausted butthrilled by all they had done,and, at the invite of Phil, withplans for another trip in the fu-ture.
An “Explosive” Sleeper Over for Downlands CubsBy Phelim McIntyre
CARNIVAL 2013By Lauren West
The clocks have gone back, it’s now Novem-ber which can only mean one thing! Carni-val! This years theme was ‘Spooky Camp’.
After a day of building in the rain and the delivery of atractor, the pumpkins carved by the scouts were placedand the milk bottle ghosts made by the cubs were hung,this year’s carnival float “Spooky camp” was built. Asthe rain stopped, the cubs and leaders began to arrivefor a night of spooky fun.
All involved got into the spirit of things and were alldressed up, including the leaders! We had devils, cats,witches and ghosts. We had vampires and even a grimreaper!Overall there were 10 cubs on the float along with 4leaders and some parents who came along for the fun.After much anticipation the judging commenced….. Wecame 2nd in the under 50 children category. WELLDONE CUBS!!!!
The team were spurred on during the build by regularprovision of delicious food & drink – ‘Thank you Leslie’.A huge thank you is in order for the building team andespecially Craig West for organising the wholefloat.Without his determination, tenacity and his willinghelpers this float would never have happened!So from all the cubs and leaders on the float THANKYOU!!!!!!!
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JASPER HOSTS FIRES FOR SCOUTS AND CUBSBy Trevor Holden
On Wednesday 6th Novem-ber, 28 Scouts from Scottand Shackleton Troops cametogether for an evening offlames, fireworks and food.The Scouts enjoyed a massivefire with lots of loud and brightfireworks. This was followed
with cooking sausages over theembers on whittled sticks about2 meters long. It was impossi-ble to get any closer to the fire!The Cub leaders thought itwould be a good idea to have aChristmas Campfire with songsand carols as an end of term
treat. Once again it was host-ed by Jasper and his family.After 48 hours of continual rainit finally stopped (much to therelief of the leaders) and anenjoyable evening singing andeating hot dogs was had by allthree packs.
Scouts braving the heat of the inferno tocook their sausages.
Cubs at their seasonal campfire during a lullin the storms.
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Remembrance Day by Kevin Stephenson
This year it was the turn of the cubsto take the lead at the annual Re-membrance Service at St Mary’sChurch at Bramshott. The Groupwere very well represented by ouryoung members and leaders andhelpers. The service this year wasshortened due to the ongoing roofrepair work on the church. TheGroup had the usual colour partiesto carry the section flags and thewreath was presented by Douglas
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Explorers Prepare for Their Trip to Kanderstegby Jez Turner
In preparation for the Explorers Ski-ing trip to Kandersteg in February,Liphook's Explorer unit had a nightat Aldershot dry ski slopes. Theytried a mixture of skiing and snow board-ing which saw a range of ability, from acouple of first timers, to some with a lotof experience, hence some spent moretime on their backsides than other's. Itwas a great night and fun was had by all,but there could only be one winner ofthe best wipeout!!
The group's Christmas Post service ransmoothly this December, with thousands ofcards once again delivered to houses in the112 roads in Liphook, Bramshott, Passfieldand Conford.Thank you to everyone who posted the cards viathe purple boxes and to the Beavers, Cubs,
Scouts and Explorers who turned up on Sunday15th December to collect a batch to deliver downtheir road. As you’ll probably remember, that weekwas pretty terrible weather wise (almost non-stoprain!) so everyone who braved the elements tomake sure all the cards made it to their destina-tions should be given a big round of applause.Leader Mark Boosey says: “A big thank you toeveryone who turned up, it ensured no individualhad too many cards to deliver. Just to get an earlyadvert in now too: Liphook is getting quite big now-adays, so we’ll need lots of help next Decembertoo - it maybe 12 months away, but please put it inyour diaries already!”The group would also like to publically thank Ga-bles, Sainsbury's, Route 6, Passfield Stores, Co-op, Countrywide, Hiscocks and The Deers Hut forhosting the boxes.At the time of writing, the grand total hasn’t beencalculated, but the group looks set to have raisedmore than £500 from the service this year. Thiswill be used to fund new equipment and activitiesduring this year.
Christmas Post 2013 by Mark Boosey
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Hampshire County Beaver Funday at Paulton’s Parkby Owl (Mark Stocker)
Santa Claus got a shock in No-vember when 3000 BeaverScouts from Hampshire visitedhim in his Grotto at Paulton’sPark near Southampton. 62Beavers, parents and leadersfrom Liphook were lucky to at-tend and present Santa withtheir Christmas wish lists. Aftera very wet start the Beaversgot to go on the Banana Boat,Jumping Bean, Tea Cup Ride,Wave Runner, Kontiki and therain from the morning was along forgotten memory. We allheaded nervously into thebrand new 4D cinema just be-fore lunch and let’s just say allthe Beavers were shocked toget snow indoors but were allpleasantly surprised. Afterlunch we got to visit Santa inhis Christmas Wonderland andthe Beavers happily gave himlots of requests for presents. In
the afternoon we headed backout into the park to finish theday on the Cobra, flying frogand at the end of the day gotjust as wet as when we started
on the log flume ride. All theBeavers had a great day andwere presented with a specialcommemorative badge to markthe occasion.
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MOVING ON DECEMBER 2013
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Bisley National Scout Shooting Championshipby David Sainsbury
Our eagerly anticipated tripto Bisley for the NationalScout Shooting Champion-ships took place during Octo-ber. The weekend is alwayspopular with our members andas a result we fielded the larg-est team the rules allowed.Arrival is on the Friday night(pitching tents in the dark isalways fun,) and then off to theOld Sergeant's Mess for somewarmth or to go and makefriends with other Scouts at theevent. There were nearly 900others, so camping is jamboreestyle and cheek by jowl. Exultations that an early nightis beneficial for competitiveshooting fall on deaf ears.......Saturday is busy, long day foreveryone with shooting taking
place over a 12 hour period.Plenty of shooting needs to bedone whilst the adults help onthe ranges or in the scoringoffice. The highlight of the dayfor most is the field shoot. Thistakes place in the woods usingscoped rifles and demands ahigh amount of shooting skill,but getting down in the dirt toshoot has plenty of appeal forour lads! Ashley did a sterlingjob marshalling the boys fortheir shoots, something that isextremely important as it iseasy to miss a shooting detail.
Evening meal concludes theshooting day for nearly every-one.Sunday breakfast....eggs, ba-con, beans, mushrooms (yukfor some,) hash browns is al-ways a good way to start, espe-cially if there is no cooking andwashing up. The concludingshoots take place in the morn-ing quickly followed by the ten-sion of the prize giving and boy,did we have some things totake away. 2013 was probablyour best ever and congratula-tions go to all.
Senior Knockout: Bronze Medal: Max Stevens Bronze Medal: Ben Tinegate SmithPistol Team Trophy: Bronze Medal: Ben Tinegate Smith Jonathan Sainsbury Oliver Bowler Thomas Gunner (Just one point short of silver)Advanced Field Target: Gold Medal: Dominic GwilliamMost Improved Explorer Scout: The Killay Trophy: William Comber6 yard Rifle Over 18: Gold Medal: Dominic GwilliamWebley Scott Team Trophy: Bronze Medal & The Jubilee Cup Dominic Gwilliam Oliver Bowler Oscar Buller Thomas Gunner4th Places: Just out of the medals Oliver Bowler: Junior Field Target Eoghan Macleod: Advanced Field Target Oliver Bowler, Thomas Gunner, and Matthew Tobin: HRH The Duke of Connaught Junior Trophy.
The Results
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PHOTOGRAPH DISCLAIMERPhotographs and reports are made to show and reflectthe activities, events and achievement of our members.If you have any concerns about photographs being takenor reports being made please speak to Bryan Jackson,Group Scout Leader( 01428 723248.
Kaa goes the extra26 miles for ScoutsSteve Baker (AKA Kaa from Wheat-sheaf Pack) is running this year’sLondon Marathon on behalf of theScout Association, with the aim ofraising £2,000.
Training for the 26.2 mile run throughthe capital has already started and Ste-ve is keen to raise as much money aspossible for the organisation he loves.
“Scouting is a fantastic movement thathelps young and old, and I wanted togo the extra mile, or 26, to ensure itcarries on,” says Steve.
As part of his fundraising activities, Ste-ve is running a Pub Quiz night on Sat-urday 22 February at the Scout Hut.For information speak to Steve afterCubs or [email protected] you would like to sponsor Steve text
“STBA79” followed by the amount to70070 or visithttps://www.justgiving.com/Steve-Bakaa
Last year 1st Liphook ScoutGroup continued to providea full and wide programmeof activities and events forall it members be it Beavers,Cubs Scout or ExplorerScouts, the adventure for itmembers starts right hereon our doorstep and spreadfar and wide.Plans for all the sectionsare now being made for thiscoming year, so pleaseensure that your give yourson or daughter the chanceto take part in the Adven-ture by them being thereand join in. Adventure isabout doing something thatat times challenges youand may nudge you out thecomfort zone, it doesn’t
mean you have to be atough person just join inhave a go and have fun, abreak from the norm andhelp develop life skill, confi-dence and independence,which is what Scouting isall about.Parents and friends we stilldo need your help and I amsure you can all help us insome was so please dospeak to a leader, be it justa little help occasional or bygetting more involved, youtoo can enjoy the Adven-ture Scouting can offer toall its members and helpers.Bryan JacksonGroup Scout LeaderTel 01428 723248
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1st LIPHOOK SCOUT GROUPDate Event Times Where18th Jan Scout Shop 09.30-13.00 HQ23rd Jan Exec Meeting 20.00 HQ10th Feb Rock Council22nd Feb Quiz Night1st - 2nd Mar District Sixer Sleepover16th Mar Cub Rodney Bishop Football 12.30 Petersfield26th Mar Moving On 18.45 HQ27th Apr District St Georges Day9th May Scout WW1 Commemoration Winchester Cathedral23rd - 26th May Cub Camp Runways End2nd - 8th Jun Scout Community Week8th Jun LiDBA Cycle Ride Bohunt School15th Jun Classic Car Day Deers Hut27th - 29th Jun Beaver Camp Garners Field27 Jul - 2 Aug Scout and Explorer Camp Wareham, Dorset