Scouts
PL / APL Weekend - CANCELLED
As part of the 100 year celebrations for Scouts, we were running a special PLs Weekend for Senior Patrol Leaders, Patrol Leaders and Assistant Patrol Leaders. As the numbers are too low for the camp to take place it has been postponed until next year.
Scout Activity
Working in the Peak District
Scouts from Darton and Barugh Scout Groups enjoy a weekend in the Peak District, repairing footpath access to the Tissington cycle trail
Barugh Events
Working in the Hope Valley near Castleton during a conservation project
The scouts ( in their orange/red boiler suits ) and the explorer scouts ( in blue/grey ) worked with Peak Disrict park rangers and other volunteers to clear hawthorne and other scrub from an area of rare grassland, encouraging the regeneration of wild flowers and fauna. Part on a 5 year project undertaken by national park volunteers with the co-operation of local landowners.
Two members are awarded their Chief Scout’s Gold Award
Two members of Barugh Scouts receive their top scout awards - “Chief Scout’s Gold award” at a recent meeting. To complete the award, Nathan Bellamy fron Higham and Robert Watson from Mapplewell undertook 5 group challenges (Outdoors, Adventure, Fitness, Community and Creative) as well as indervidual projects and training. Both have now become members of Barbarian Explorer Scouts.
Barugh scouts practice their cooking skills at an indoor meeting recently.
Using lightweight backpacking stoves the scouts prepared and cooked pancakes, which were then eaten with obvious enjoyment
Barugh Scouts enjoying a day out in the mud on the TransPennine Trail
Barugh Scouts on top of the heap - Members of Barugh Scouts assisting the Park Rangers during a weekend in the Peak District. Barugh Scouts relax during a weekend resurfaceing footpaths in the Macclesfield Forest, nerr Buxton. About 100m of path and steps were rebuilt during the weekend.
Barugh Scouts relax in the sun, at the end of a 25 mile cycle ride on the Upper Don Trail, part of the Trans Pennine Trail
Barugh Scouts prepare to launch their pop-bottle rockets at the completion of their Model Makers badge. Made from plastic bottles, card, paper, glue, paint and varnish: and powered by water pressure, the rackets climbed into the evening sky at Low Barugh last thursday, entitling the Scouts to wear the Model Makers badge
Scrub Bashing in the Peak District
Barugh Scouts spent a weekend with the Peak District National park rangers, restoring moorland in the Goyt valley. The group stayed at the Marsh Farm residential centre, near Leek in Staffordshire and took part in a major project to clear introduced species from the moors in this popular area of the white peak.
More Conservation Work by Barugh Scouts
Barugh Scouts finished improvements to the footpath at Rowesley in the Peak District, when they returned with National Park Conservation Rangers to complete the re-instatement of the footpath surface, installing drains and edging, at a popular woodland route near Bakewell.