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Events and happenings in Farnham District

District Cub Scout Camp – 11th-13th October 2024

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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.

 

District Beaver Day – Barfield

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The Beaver Scouts were at Barfield enjoying a day of activities on 13th October 2023; bouldering, aero ball, hoopla, spinners, chase the rainbow and plant prints.  Even Big Beaver joined in.

Well done to all the volunteers particularly Steve Rattan (4th) for organising the Barfield activities and our ADC- Beavers Clair Waterman for  co-ordinating the Colonies.

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Frantic23 – *********Help Required!*********

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Frantic 23 is now only weeks away – 14th-16th July 2023 and volunteers are needed to help throughout the weekend and beyond.

Whether it is 1 hour or lots your help would be appreciated.

All volunteers over 18 must have a valid DBS

*********Help Required!*********

**Site set up – from Wednesday onwards – various jobs to get the site set up – tent
pitching, putting up fencing, putting up signs.

**Car parking – assistance at both Islamabad and the main site to control parking. This
will be needed Friday evening, Saturday morning, Saturday evening (day pick up) and
Sunday afternoon (weekend pick up).

**Minibus driving / or minibus additional adult – we have 7 mini buses to transport people to the site and need drivers for the periods of times above.  You need class D1 if they passed their driving test pre 1997, after 1997 you must be over 21, and have held your licence for 2 years.  Also need adult passenger who does not need to drive or have DBS.

**General Activity Helpers – we will need people to help with general activities.

**Activity Helpers with permits or qualification – if you hold a permit / qualification for
shooting, climbing or archery would you be prepared to help for a session over the
weekend?

**Catering helpers – we will need people to help with food prep, serving etc.

If you can volunteer to help with these items please complete this form:- https://forms.gle/vBR82izRuJtf3Wha9

If you are not already registered with a Group/Unit then please e-mail : frantic23team@gmail.com

 

 

 

Frantic 2023

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Hello everyone…..

Frantic 2023 is just around the corner.

What is Frantic:

FRANTIC 23 is taking place over the weekend of  14th – 16th JULY 2023

At Herons Wey & Garners Field Tilford

The event started in 2007 as a camp for the three Scout Districts – Godalming, Farnham and Haslemere to celebrate the Scouting Centenary. They had such a good time it was repeated in 2009, and from 2012 included the equivalent Guiding Districts/Divisions.

The last event in 2018 saw over 1000 young people form Scouting and Guiding taking part in various activities over the weekend event.

For those who have never been it is a weekend of activities for the young people.

Scouts, Guides and Cubs camp for the whole weekend.

Brownies, Beavers and Rainbows join the fun for the day on Saturday. (although can camp if you want)

Young Leaders, Rangers, Explorer Scouts are asked to help with the event, either centrally or with their unit, but can have some time to join the fun.

More information can be found on Facebook HERE

And HERE too….

Family Camp 2023

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Howdy Folks

Just a friendly reminder that the 2023 Family Camp is open for on line bookings.

Go HERE to make your booking for you and your family.

The Family Camp is a tremendous event.   Loads of fun, great activities and great food!

BOOK NOW!

If you are a volunteer please make your booking HERE.

See you there!

Farnham District Family Camp 2022

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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.

General Event Dates

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Diary Dates

https://farnhamscouting.com/website/general-event-dates/

SASU:

Nov-22 – Skittle (details to follow)

District:

2022

9th – 11th September 2022 – Theme Park Camp – Explorers and Network – http://themeparkcamp.uk/

1st – 2nd October 2022 – District Cub Scout Camp – Cubs – Garners Field – information via Cub Scout Leaders

2023

21st – 23rd April 2023 – Family Camp – All Welcome – Garners Field

5th – 7th May 2023 – Frantic 23 – All Sections – Herons Wey & Garners Field –  Farnham, Haslemere and Godalming activity weekend for Scouts and Guides

County:

2022

17th – 18th September 2022 – Beavers Go Wild – Beavers – Bentley Copse – https://www.surrey-scouts.org.uk/events/beavers-go-wild-2022

29th – 30th October  2022 – FrightEX24 – Explorers – Bentley Copse

2023

13th – 15th January 2023 – Frost Camp – Scouts – Bentley Copse

17th June 2023 – Scram – Cubs – Hook Arena

 

Surrey Events: https://www.surrey-scouts.org.uk/upcoming-events

Cub Scout and Beaver Scout Fun Day Thank you

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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