No doubt we have around 80 exhausted people after returning from our annual family camp! With 24 families attending, it was sure to be a successful weekend and it didn’t disappoint.
What an amazing weekend it was! Our scouting family joined together to make the best family camp so far!
Everyone has given positive feedback and we all can’t wait to do it again, so we have decided to set a date in the near future for FC2025. Watch out for it on Facebook.
It was a packed full weekend of games, activities, singing and playing and joining together to embrace unity and nature.
So you’ve signed your little Monkey up to join our Beaver Colony, they go every week and have lots of fun learning new skills and making new friends. 
The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award is something every young person should get involved in. In this article, Elysia Gorman, an active Regional Youth Ambassador for the Cardiff area gives us the background on the award and tips on how you can get started. Elysia is currently working on her Lowland Leaders Qualification and speaks with schools, participants and other leaders to provide feedback and improve DofE experiences.
fifth section for those going for Gold. These are volunteering, physical, skills, expedition and for Gold only, a residential trip. 
Camping season is coming! 
Just like rice bowls, pasta pots are super convenient too. Boil up plenty of wholewheat pasta in a saucepan, and add in your tomato sauce, basil and other ingredients for a hearty Italian camping feast. Let it cool and then simply spoon into individual pots.
chunky soups or a blitzed up version, this is great opportunity to pack your kids’ camping lunches with goodness. Use a base of tomato or flavoursome stock and you’ll be able to mask all manner of healthy ingredients within the soup. Spinach, broccoli, peppers… the choice is yours.
7.Eggs
According to the dictionary a jamboree is a party, celebration, or other gathering where there is a large number of people and a lot of excitement, fun, and enjoyment. And that is exactly what it is!
encompassing 8.8 square kilometers.. The largest section is 6.1 kilometers wide and 1.8 kilometers long. Stretching beside the West Coast near Byeonsanbando National Park, the huge Jamboree campground (35’42”N 126’35”E) is endowed with rich natural surroundings—one side of the venue adjoins the ocean.(35’42”N 126’35”E)
But it’s not just the eyes that itch: The nose twitches, the neck basically the whole. body can get itchy!
If this is you, here are some little tips to help you along through these tough months.
for hay fever.
I know many of you mark Pancake Day and look forward to your pancakes. This year Pancake day (Shrove Tuesday) falls on Tuesday 21st February and Ash Wednesday the following day.
Lent lasts for 40 days (not counting Sundays – fasting is not required on these days) marked by repentance, fasting, reflection and ultimately celebration. The 40 day period represents Christ’s tome of temptation in the wilderness, where he fasted and Satan tempted him. Lent asks believers to set aside a time each year for similar fasting, marking an intentional season of focus for Christ’s life, ministry, sacrifice and resurrection.
In the UK, pancake races became an important part of Shrove Tuesday celebrations. As well as giving up “luxury” foods, the faithful were expected to forego fun pastimes such as dancing and playing games like football. Therefore Shrovetide (The four days preceding lent) was a time for merriment. A legacy of these festivities is the pancake race. Dating from around 1445, legend has it that local women heard about Shriving bell while making pancakes and ran to church in their aprons, still clutching her frying pan. This became the opportunity for large numbers of people, often in fancy dress, to race down the streets tossing pancakes. The object of the race is to get to the finishing line first, carrying a frying pan with a cooked pancake in it and flipping it as they run. Although like many traditions this has mostly died out, however tradition prevails as there is still a race every year in 
So on Pancake Day – Tuesday 21st February 2023 – enjoy your pancakes, whether you prefer them sweet or savoury, and reflect on the past… maybe think about reviving the Pancake Race in your community??
Christmas is an annual festival commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ, observed primarily on December 25 as a religious and cultural celebration among billions of people around the world.
actually give and receive gifts on the 25th December. In many other European countries, it is custom to give gifts on the 24th and in Spanish speaking countries it is often custom to give presents after Christmas. The United Kingdom is one of the few countries where gifts are opened on Christmas Day itself.
On Christmas Eve, children around the UK hang stockings (a type of large sock) on their fireplaces (or wherever is convenient) so that Saint Nicholas (otherwise known as Santa Claus or Father Christmas) can fill their stockings with presents, fruit, candies or coins. In the Western tradition, it is believed that if children are badly behaved their stockings will be filled with a single lump of coal instead of presents.
The countdown to Christmas is on!
Or watch some classic Christmas films at home
take a trip outdoors – whether that’s to your garden or local park – and build a magical snowman together. All you need to do is grab some mittens, pull on those wellies, wrap up warm and get building! Don’t forget to take a carrot for a nose and an extra scarf to keep your wintery creation nice and warm.
Family game nights