Hampshire County Cub Scouts Support Team are hosting a Top Trumps Tournament which your District is invited and encouraged to be involved in.
This is one of the County’s Youth Shaped activities; as it’s an activity chosen by the young people themselves.
Date: 03/03/2024
Time: 9:45am to 4pm
Location: 7th Eastleigh Scout HQ, Woodlands Community Centre, Savernake Way, Fair Oak, Eastleigh SO50 8DH
Each District can enter 1 team of up to 6 participants each; 3 Cubs aged under 9 years old and 3 Cubs aged over 9 years old.
Please confirm your District’s availability for this event by 18/02/2024 along with the names of your participants to the event organiser by this date
Full information has been sent to ADCs/DCs, so contact them for more information.
Do you have what it takes to be the next Hampshire Cub Virtual Talent Contest Winner. Take a look at our poster and get in contact with Sean
Do you have a cub that is mad about Chess?
Are they the next Magnus Carlson (Grandmaster at 13 years old)?
Then we have a competition for them.
The County Competition is on:
Date: 4th March 2023
Time: 2pm
Venue: Basingstoke
Contact your ADC Cub Support for more details
The Hampshire Cub Scout Support Team are delighted to announce the 1st Annual Cub Section Support Day.
All adults and young leaders involved in the Cub Section are invited to come along to share ideas, learn new skills and get some training validated.
When: 20th November 2022
Where: Ferny Crofts Activity Centre
Sign up for more information in the coming months.
This was the cub section's first face to face event for over 2 years.
The cubs assembled at a beautiful new scout hall in Sarisbury Green all ready and excited to begin.
It was amazing to see so many young people get together and be creative.
They had an hour to build something from scrap that represented the Queens Platinum Jubliee.
The creations were wide and varied from Buckingham Palace to a Crown, to the queen walking her corgi, to a badge to commemorate the jubilee, to members of the royal family on stage.
Everyone had a great time especially the winners from our newly formed New Forest Solent District.
The cubs departed with smiles on their faces and a participation certificate in hand.
Congratulations to everyone who took part.
Creative skills were put to the test among young people from across Hampshire last month as they competed in their virtual Scrapheap Challenge.
The Cub Scouts competition for eight to 10-year-olds saw the youngster build a model from scrap materials around their home.
With one week to build their models on a funfair theme, 10 districts from Hampshire took part.
Thelma Young, an adult volunteer with the Cub Scouts and an organiser of the event, says the competition was good fun and exactly what everyone needed.
She said: “ The cubs really seemed to have enjoyed making their models and were very creative. It was lovely to see the Cub Scouts engaging with the day and all spoke with confidence to adult volunteers they don't know.
“Seeing the young people enjoying themselves during these troubled times makes all the effort the adults put into Scout activities worthwhile.”
In usual circumstances, six Cub Scouts from each District would meet at a Scout Activity Centre to be to be provided with the materials and told what theme their models should be.
Teams are then scored on teamwork, communication and creative skills with the winner announced at the end of the day.
But due to the suspension of face-to-face activities, the event went online but that didn’t dampen the spirits of everyone involved.
Thelma continued: “We were delighted to have Peter Marcus, our County Youth Commissioner, come and judge the models.
“Simon, our new lead volunteer for the Cubs Section in Hampshire shared some words on the importance of recycling too.”
Congratulations to Odiham District who were the winners of the bi-annual event which will return in November 2022.
Words by Sam Poole, pictures by Thelma Young.
As Scouts we love to get outdoors and try new things. But with winter and everything going on, we know its hard to think of ideas of what to do right now. To help you deliver great online Scouting, we’ve pulled together our list of places to find great ideas.
These two sources of activities are much newer so you may not have heard much about them yet. Both of them are prepared by Scout leaders for Scout leaders and you can pick them up and run them with your section without much planning or adaptation needed.
Press Play and Go activities are made by HQ and have a video activity you can share with your Zoom session directly with the video doing all the work. New activities arrive every week and there are activities for Beavers/Cubs and Scouts/Explorers.
1st Digital Scouts is the new kid on the block with videos by Scout Content. These videos are nice and short, follow a good structure for zoom sessions, and give you up front what you’ll need. There are weekly videos for Beavers, Cubs, Scouts and Explorers ready to go.
Across the UK there are loads of other leaders looking for ideas and sharing what they’ve found in various different Facebook groups. 1st Virtual Scout Group on Facebook and 1st Facebook Scout Group are the big ones. The posts in these groups are easily searchable and linked together in topics.
There are lots of activities out there including PowerPoints for activities, games, escape rooms and links to more external resources. Lots of charities are offering activities that can work over Zoom, the RNLI being a good example, and there are many guest presenters that leaders can invite to show off their skills or animals or whatever!
So you may know about the new Scouts Activities tool already – it replaced the old Programmes on a Plate and is linked to the Programme Planning Tool that HQ is building and adding to. Throughout this weird time, the Scouts and the partners have been adding to this Activity index and adding new filters to make it searchable – so you can look at just online activities for example.
More usefully though, these activity listings can also be found on the pages for different badges on the Scout websites. At the bottom of these pages, below the badge requirements, is a box with activities that can be used to tick off these requirements. While some might need tweaking, there are lots of activities that you can use to get things started.
Scoutadelic are a YouTube channel run by Scout leaders and they make great videos teaching lots of different scouting skills from first aid to campfire songs.
Chester Zoo have made lots of resources and activities to support people at home, with fun activities, spotting the signs of your animal visitors and more practical experiences pitched at lots of different age ranges.
Scout Adventures have long made resources to support leaders with practical Scout skills and their page also has some smashing recipes as well.
The Scouts have put together some virtual programme support webinars, to help with the basics of running a putting over Zoom if you're feeling unsure about how it will all work.
Do you need help with getting your section to meet and take part in activities or can you offer support to another group? Please do reach out and contact our programme team, who are always happy to help provide support!
As a way to engage with our young people during this pandemic the Cub Team have come up with a virtual event.
Calling all cubs that can – sing, tell jokes, juggle, acrobatics, dance, recite poetry, magic, talk backwards, ventriloquism, eyebrow dancing, sporting skill and any other skill you can imagine.
Please encourage your cubs to share their talents with the County by recording a 90 second clip.
Closing dates for entries is: 12th February
Show day is: 20th February at 6pm
For more details contact Sean Reeves. [email protected]
We all do risk assessments or safety checks everyday, for example, when we cross the road. We choose an appropriate place to cross, look both ways and make a decision about whether it’s safe to cross.
We know that children and young people learn by doing. Activities encourage the development of young people and they can feel a huge sense of achievement in completing them. We want to provide EXCITEMENT but not DANGER; ADVENTURE but not HAZARD.
Risk Assessment starts in the early stages of activity planning and goes on throughout the activity until all participants go home at the end of the activity. There are five simple steps. If you’ve done risk assessments elsewhere, these should look familiar.
Date/Time: Saturday 30th January 2021 10am
As with most things this year the County Scrapheap Challenge will be run slightly differently – it will be an individual event.
Each district is asked to select a cub to represent them. As a District it is up to you how you select your entry – section and/or district competitions. But please remember you MUST adhere to the local COVID Guidelines.
Each District can enter one cub into the county competition. They must be available on the 30th January to join a zoom meeting to “show and tell” their model to the judge.
The cub should make the item using only the recycling materials and craft products listed below and it should have taken them no longer than an hour to make. Please note they don’t have to use all the items in the making of their model.
There can be only ONE entry per District - ADCs please email your entry confirmation by 16th January to [email protected]
The Theme for the model is: 'Funfair'
Materials to use:
