Waltham Abbey Scouts

This page is dedicated to what we've been up to in the past.

Climbing Wall

We took our youngsters to Harlow Outdoors for a session climbing their purpose built walls. Each wall ranges from easy to a difficult challenge.

Brass Monkey Competition

Our very young teams did their very best, gaining the experience to do much better next year, and hopefully bringing home the "boots" once more.

Camp Gadgets

For the forthcoming "Brass Monkey Competition", our scouts using their knots and lashing skills, known as Pioneering, made a few Gadgets for their campsite. These Gadgets are used to gain extra points in the competition.

Brass Monkey Prep

For the forthcoming "Brass Monkey Competition", our teams cooked their chosen evening meal using gas stoves. This was in preparation to cooking it on a open fire, which the competition rules requires.

Carol Singing Fundraise

The Bulls spent an evening in the Waltham Abbey TESCO's foyer, Carol Singing to raise funds for subsidizing future scouting activities. Altogether they raised a fabulous £307.37

Pizza Making

Our scouts challenge was making a Pizza from scratch. They were given written instructions, the ingredients and guidance where needed, and the results are in the photographs. Alan our Chairman brought along his Pizza Oven, which was great as the Pizza's didn't take long to cook.

Church Bell Tower

Our Bulls visited Waltham Abbey Church. We were allowed to enter the bell tower and see them in action. Unfortunately as it was a dark winter evening, we were not allowed to venture out onto the viewing platform. Previous visits have been in the summer months, whereby the platform has allowed us to see beyond the boundaries of "the Abbey". All fifteen who attended had the chance to ring the bells, after learning more about their history and how to operate them.

Swimming Gala

The Bulls entered a team into the District Swimming Gala that was held at Ongar. The five girls, the only all female team entered out of the nine teams, came overall in fourth place. As you can see by the photo, two girls won individual awards in their finals. Well done everyone.

Bumble

Our Scout Troop took part in a water confidence activity, where they can safely jump in and play in a local river. This activity is run by Harlow Outdoors, with supervision from qualified instructors. Our youngsters thoroughly enjoy the activity, whilst boosting their confidence in natural water, where they simply cannot away from scouting.

Cake Stall

In a way of a "thank you" to our local Fire Station, who invited us to visit their base, try on their safety gear, sit in a fire engine, learn about what it takes to be a Fire Fighter and a hands-on experience using the water hose. Our Scouts made cakes at home and setup a stall at the Fire Station's Open Day, selling our cakes and hot drinks, to raise funds for the Fire Station's chosen charity.

Ready Steady Cook

One of our favorite cooking activities is "Ready steady Cook". Based on the TV show, our scouts are given a selection of foods, they chose three items, and make a meal from it. We supply the essentials and they do the rest. They have the option of cooking indoors or out and 60 mins to complete the challenge. As you can see, the results would supplement any five star restaurant menu.

The Newspaper Challenge

Each team picked a model from their team, the rest had to decorate the model in a hat, glasses, dress, handbag, gloves, shoes or boots, all out of newspaper and sellotape. Always a good activity to keep the youngsters busy on a cold rainy evening.

Recreating the Burger !

The troop supplied the burger's and buns .... and our scouts did the rest. Scouts were allowed to bring in anything from home to garnish their burger, but had to cook and assemble at the scout hut.

District Night Hike

This is an annual event run by our Royal Forest District Scouters. The hike is around six miles, along bridle paths and across muddy fields over night. There are check points along the route with various challenging tasks to conquer. The Bulls won this event for the second year in a row, keeping hold of the trophy until another scout troop wins. Each base completed wins the team points which are then added together.