Category: News
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Thank you to Susan for hosting our autumn Scout section camp at her home in deepest Hampshire. The Scouts enjoyed a morning helping with the apple harvest at Rotherfield Park.
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Well done to our nine Scouts who took part in the Camden, City & Islington Scouts Sailing Day at ESSA Water Activities Centre in the Lea Valley on Sunday. Of the top six crews, four were from 8th Holborn. It was great to be back at ESSA for the first time in a couple of…
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On Saturday five Scouts and three leaders enjoyed a day out in the late summer sunshine on a circular bike ride around east London. We set off on the Regent’s Canal from Islington before making our way through Victoria Park and along the Greenway to Beckton, pausing at the View Tube overlooking the Olympic Park…
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hb48imVibIs Read all about us in Scouting magazine.
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For our summer camp this year, we went to Cornwall’s international jamboree Kernow 2013. Things we did: swimming in the sea at Harlyn beach ice cream in Padstow pond dipping and woodland maintenance on the Pencarrow Estate adventure activities at Nine Ashes survival skills training in Pencarrow Woods letterboxing on Bodmin Moor canoeing and rafting…
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For our final Cub and Scout meetings of term we went to see Principal Theatre Company’s production of ‘A Comedy of Errors’ in Coram’s Fields. Thank you to Paul and the company for accommodating us.
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On 7 July we said ‘Au Revoir’ to Akela with a big party for 8th Holborn members past and present at the Knights Templar in Chancery Lane. You can read about the event in the Camden New Journal here and here. Big thanks to Jan and Gerry for hosting.
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Some of our leaders have been on an amazing adventure on the other side of the Atlantic. Read all about it on the GLN website.
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We were fortunate to be able to send three Scouts to the annual parliamentary tea party for Scouts in the apartments of the Speaker of the House of Commons, John Bercow.
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Our Beavers, Cubs and Scouts had a busy weekend at PACCAR Chalfont Heights for the Camden, City & Islington District Camp with 500 Scouts from across the three boroughs. One of the highlights was our recreation of the Great Fire of London for the Decade Challenge. Many congratulations to our Cub Scout Leader Susan Sinclair…