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Monday, 11 January 2010 |
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Congratulations to John Colenut, who has gained his Queen Scout Award. The Queen Scout Award is the highest award available in Scouting and requires a tremendous amount of work to achieve. Johns achievements included completing a four day self contained walking expedition in the Spannish Pyreenes as well as over four years assisting younger scouts as a young leader. |
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Monday, 17 December 2007 |
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The Explorers have successfully raised £230 from carol singing. The funds will be used towards their expedition to Spain in August 2008. |
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Sunday, 28 October 2007 |
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1st Rustington Explorers younger members enjoyed a brilliant weekend at their Freshers Camp. The camp was crammed full of activities, from chariot racing to hiking and from firelighting to compass skills. Everyone had a great time and even the weather was good! |
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Saturday, 20 October 2007 |
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Congratulations to Ashleigh, Claire, Tom & Martin who proudly recieved their awards from Chief Scout, Peter Duncan. The presentation took place at Tate Modern on Saturday 20th October. 24 members of the Scout Association were presented with their Queens Scout Awards following a discussion with Chief Scout, Peter Duncan, about the work and achievements that they had experienced to gain the award. The Queens Scout Award is the highest possible award to members of the Scouting Movement. The four Explorer Scouts from 1st Rustington described how they had completed four day self sufficent hiking and mountain biking expeditions in Germany and Austria and how they'd completed voluntary work with disabled youngsters and achieved accolades in sports such as tennis and gymnastics. Peter Duncans closing speech invited all of the Queens Scouts to email him with a view to how Scouting should progress in the future. |
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Tuesday, 16 October 2007 |
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Four teams from 1st Rustington Explorers took the long journey to North Yorkshire to take part in this years Apex Extreme. The teams all completed the challenge which saw them competing against Explorer Scouts from all over the country and finished in 15th , 17th, 25th & 44th places. For further details and team reports check out the Apex website. |
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Peak District Expeditions |
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Tuesday, 28 August 2007 |
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The explorers have returned from the Peak District after completing their three day self contained expeditions. The completion of the expeditions were celebrated with a curry and a day trip to Alton Towers. |
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Friday, 03 August 2007 |
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1st Rustington Explorer Unit have just returned back from a fantastic week at Arundel & Littlehampton Districts Centenary Camp where they celebrated 100 years of scouting with over 700 other local Scouts. The participants enjoyed activities such as Archery, rifle shooting, straw caving, laser quest, bucking bronco, crafts, aerial runways, climbing, abseiling, crate stacking, robot wars, raft building and many more. The celebrations included a day trip to the world jamboree in Essex. |
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Sponsored South Downs Way Walk |
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Sunday, 30 April 2006 |
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Well done to all the Explorer Scouts who completed the South Downs Way Sponsored Walk today. We expect to raise over £600 from this event which will fund activities during our expedition to Germany in the summer. The Explorers completed a route of 118.5Km, starting at 6am and finishing at 8pm. All of the Explorers did extremely well, many walking over 30Km. A summary of the distances walked is included below: | Name | | Distance | | Route | | | | | | | | Mike G | | 37.5 | | w-e | | Martin F | | 37.5 | | w-e | | Matt A | | 36 | | w-e | | Buster P | | 33 | | w-e | | Aaron C | | 36 | | w-e | | Morgan L | | 29.5 | | w-e | | Peter M | | 26.5 | | w-e | | Gina P | | 30.5 | | w-e | | Claire C | | 37 | | w-e | | John C | | 40.5 | | w-e | | | | | | | | James F | | 31.1 | | e-w | | Jamie G | | 31.1 | | e-w | | Maxine M | | 31.1 | | e-w | | Chloe M | | 31.1 | | e-w | | Kai B | | 31.1 | | e-w | | Ally J | | 26.4 | | e-w | | Mike B | | 26.4 | | e-w | | Jon H | | 26.4 | | e-w | | Steph G | | 26.4 | | e-w | | Ed S | | 26.4 | | e-w |
The Explorers did extremely well today; if you haven't yet sponsored them, it's still not too late! Pictures at: http://www.rustington-explorers.org.uk/pictures |
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Monday, 20 March 2006 |
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Half of the unit enjoyed a fantastic evening slot car racing at Roedale (Brighton) Model Car Racing Club. We were once again treated to an excelent nights racing kindly hosted by the club members. There were some high scoring races, particularly on the red track. Will the second group score as highly next week? - we think not! Our grateful thanks to the members of Roedale for hosting the evening. |
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