Brilliant Fun Day for 100 Beaver Scouts.
Well done to all the volunteers that help co-ordinate all the activities and give all the Beavers a fun day.
Special thank you to Clair Waterman, ADC Beavers for organising the day.
Category Archives: Campsite
District Cub Scout Camp – 11th-13th October 2024
Fantastic Cub Camp, Olympic Theme Activities
Well done to 12th Farnham (Wrecclesham) for being the overall winner and to the following Cubs for being their Packs Best Cub: 2nd – Jude; 3rd – Momo; 4th – Sacha; 5th Albury; 7th – Laura; 11th – Toby; 12th – Raffi
Thank you for all the volunteers for getting the site ready, catering and organising the weekend, as well as those who ran the District and Group activities throughout the weekend.
Special thank you to Nicky Clements, ADC Cubs for leading the weekend.
Policy, Procedures, Risk Assessments
| District Policy | District Policy agreed and signed 22 March 2024 | |
| Family Camp RA | Family Camp Risk Assessments – Farnham Scouting | |
GARNERS FIELD
| Campsite RA | Garners Field General Risk Assessment – Review Oct-23 | |
| Campsite rules | Campsite-Rules-March-2023 | |
| River Procedure | Garners Field River Operation Procedure 07-2024 | |
| River RA | Canoe-Kayak-Raft Garners RA 07-2024 | |
| Climbing Operating Procedure | Climbing abseiling Tower Operating Procedures V1.6 (Final) | |
| Climbing RA | Garners-Field-Climbing-Tower-at-Garners-Field-v2.doc-March-2023 | |
| Archery Procedure | ||
| Archery RA | Garners Field – Come and Try It Archery Session | |
| Tomahawks Procedure | ||
| Tomahawks RA |
| Shooting Procedure | ||
| Shooting Rules | Garners Field shooting rules September 2023 | |
| Supervised Assault Course | ||
Farnham District Family Camp 2022
Farnham District Scouts
In my humble opinion Family Camp 2022 was a real success, the atmosphere and the smiling faces the main give away.
If anyone has photos that I can publicly used I would really appreciate being sent them – https://farnhamscouting.com/website/family-camp-2022-pictures/
Thank you to everyone who has helped ensure that this Family Camp happened from set-up to completion to taking part, and to those who will be still working to break camp this week. There are many hands involved, many volunteers, without which we could not stage this fantastic event.
I like to thank the Mayor of Farnham Councilor Alan Earwaker for his words at our St George’s Service and also Surrey Scouts, Paul Iverson, ACC Scout
I would like to particularly thank;
Site and Booking Team; Gary, Davis, Oli, Eric, Philip, Nicky, Josh, Linda, Danielle, Janet, Michael, Scotty, Steve, Austin. Matt and others who help with set up throughout the week before.
Amenities; Pat – who keeps our facilities clean and tidy.
Café – Gill, Brian, Sarah, Anna
District Activities – Crafts – Chris, Janet, Climbing – Bill, Tom, Hamish and team, Archery – Judith, Stephen and team
Groups/Network – we are very lucky to have had such a variety of activities put on by each Group/Network all of which take planning, time and work to assemble and operation.
Explorers – firstly to the leaders who enable the Explorers to camp as a family and the Explorers that attended and volunteered not only on the inflatables but where they were needed including kayaking, café, archery and runway.
Garners Field Monday Crew – without whom we would not have such a beautiful site.
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A special thank you to the organisations below who gave their time and expertise for free;
Blackwater Valley Canoe Club – https://www.bvcc.org.uk/ ; https://www.facebook.com/BlackwaterValleyCC
Mark, Tegan & Leon Taiko Drumming – http://www.farnhamtaiko.club/ ; https://www.facebook.com/farnhamtaiko
Jaz, Reptasia – https://www.facebook.com/reptasia.events
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Thank you to Herons Wey Campsite for allowing us to park, especially Hazel, Site Manager who helped with traffic control.
For anyone interested I have listed below all the outside companies we use.
Please do let us know if we can do anything to improve next years’ Family Camp – I hope you to see you all in there – save the weekend Friday 20th to 23rd April 2023
Thank you
Ann-Marie
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Silent Disco – www.thesilent.party
Inflatables – www.BestBounce.co.uk
Cave – http://eventhigher.co.uk/
Mr Giant – https://www.facebook.com/Mr-Giant-Childrens-Entertainer-Dr-Blendo-Mad-Science-Parties-121376751268044
Toilets – www.surreytoilethire.co.uk
Water Bowser – https://www.surreyhire.co.uk/
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Ann-Marie Vinnicombe
District Commissioner
Farnham District Scout Council
T: +44 (0)7410381071 | E: dc@farnhamscouting.com | W: https://www.farnhamscouting.com.
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Garners Field – Archery, All Weather Shelter and Climbing Wall.
A lot of work has happened on the Archery Range, the All-Purpose Shelter and Climbing Wall at Garners Field.
Archery
Thank you to Kristal Derrick (Hampshire Scouts Assessor) for helping to finalise the design, Ray Deare (Monday Crew) for creating the range design including organising materials and putting it together with the help of the Monday Crew – oh and getting a grant to help pay for this and the shelter improvements, Gary Thain (Warden) for organising the bows, arrows and targets.
The range is a Come and Try It range and governed by the Archery GB rules in regard to set up/equipment. The range can be booked via the Campsite booking form; 1.5 hour session is £25 including borrowing equipment (£10 with your own equipment.)
Check if available: https://farnhamscouting.com/website/Campsite/archery-range-bookings/archery-range-booking-calendar/
You must has a Scout Permit holder to run the session; if your Group does not have one please contact me and I can e-mail District Permit holder to see if they are available.
Please see current permit holders including from our recent course held at Garners Field. – https://farnhamscouting.com/website/archery-course/
All Purpose Shelter
The shelter is used for shooting activities; as such it has now been refitted to ensure this is safer and there is less damage to the structure.
Thank you to Hamish and Kim White for co-ordinating the requirements and doing the work on the refit.
The shelter must be booked via the Campsite Booking form and costs £10 per 1.5hr session; there is no District fire arms however Tongham Hogshots and 5th Farnham (Bourne) do have fire arms and we have a number of NRSA qualified leaders across the District – please ask.
Climbing Wall
Our climbing wall has been inspected and is now in line with the relevant standards.
Thank you to Neil Peerman (DNSC/GSL/Exec), Bill Weller (GSL/Exec), Philip German (Warden) and Gary Thain (Warden) for their hard making repairs, pulling together the necessary paperwork and co-ordinating work done to get the wall pass the inspection.
The wall will re-open in the new year once all equipment has been review and renewed as appropriate and safe.
The wall must be booked via the Campsite booking form.
Garners Field Campsite Booking: https://farnhamscouting.com/website/Campsite/campsite-booking-2019/
Cub Scout and Beaver Scout Fun Day Thank you
So, on Saturday 2nd October 2021 160 Cub Scouts descended on Garners Field followed by 85 Beaver Scouts on Sunday 3rd October 2021 all in the name of FUN.
Mission Successful – even with the most horrible weather, the Cubs love it, pillow fighting in the rain is a sight to see. Both days we had happy, happy children. (some a bit wet…0
Behind every fun day there is a team of dedicated but now exhausted volunteers who have been planning, building, co-operating and running activities, setting up, maintaining and clearing up.
Nicky Clements, ADC Cub Scouts planned the Cubs day with help from Amanda Morgan, District Cub Leader and ran the day with her site team, Davis Clements, Ollie Morgan and Gary Thain providing the template for the Beaver Day. Thank you without your help the weekend would not have happened.
Thank you Gill Snedden who not only catered for volunteers on Saturday, with leftovers for Sunday but also an evening ‘BBQ’ for the Cubs,
Every Pack and every Colony provided an activity run by leaders and any volunteers they could muster – again planning and work before the event as well as setup and clear way. I know the 12th(Wrecclesham) were building the runway throughout the weekday evenings to get it ready in time.
Across the weekend we also had;
Tongham Hotshots running shooting
A raft of permit holders running Rafting
District Archery permit holders running Archery
The newly trained Tomahawk team teaching 6 to 10.5 year old to throw metal ‘angels’ and axes.
SASU members also supported bases, oversaw the assault course and generally filled in some gaps.
(Every activity has a Risk Assessment)
Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you
Yours in Scouting
Ann-Marie
Campsite Maintenance – Thank you BVCC
Massive thank you to members from
Blackwater Valley Canoe Club
for taking down over hanging trees and clearing the weir at Garners Field today.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/BlackwaterCanoeClub/
Garners Field – Update
8th August 2020
Garners Field is partially open within the AMBER approved risk assessment attached. Campsite Red to Amber Covid Risk Assessement REV 2
Our Campsite Manager, Ken Powell and his team of volunteers run and maintain the Campsite and they have done a fantastic job during lockdown keeping the Campsite at a high standard of maintenance to ensure safe fun.
The decision has been made that effectively it is only the field, activity trail and shooting range that can be opened for use at this time and risk level.
Anyone using the site must have their own approved COVID-19 Risk Assessment as well as usual activity RA and this must be attached to the booking form – no one is allowed on site without an approved booking for any reason.
https://farnhamscouting.com/website/Campsite/campsite-booking-2019/
This means that the hall, climbing tower and archery wall are not open under this level.
https://www.scouts.org.uk/volunteers/scouts-at-home/getting-everyone-back-together-safely/
Hopefully you will have seen that the climbing tower roof has been replaced and there is further upgrades in the pipeline – https://farnhamscouting.com/website/climbing-tower-new-roof/
We are also revamping the archery wall, currently it has been dismantled ahead of rebuild – https://farnhamscouting.com/website/garners-field-the-crew-in-action/
If you have any queries please contact the Campsite Manager: campsitebookings@farnhamscouting.com
Ann-Marie Vinnicombe – Farnham District Commissioner
dc@farnhamscouting.com
Climbing Tower New Roof
So the Climbing Tower needed a new roof………………………MASSIVE THANK YOU to
Philip German
Bill Weller
Gary Thain
Mark Weller
Phil Drapper
Geoff Whitaker
Graham Keen
for helping to transform the roof, making the tower safe and ready to be used……………….
