Sutton Coldfield West District Skills For Life

Hudson Explorer Scout Unit

Sutton Coldfield West District Skills For Life

A Balanced Programme and Activities

Programme

D of E Award Scheme

Activity Badges

We provide a balanced programme that contains a great deal of flexibility and is designed primarily for participation and youth involvement. It can therefore be an enjoyable and rewarding experience for any young person, whatever their ability.

Activity Badges

D of E Award Scheme

Activity Badges

Many of the badges available are activity badges, which allow Explorers to show their progress in existing pursuits, but also to try all kinds of new things and form new interests.

Link to Activity Badges available here!

D of E Award Scheme

We offer The Duke of Edinburgh's Award, non-competitive programme of activities for anyone aged 14-24. Doing their DofE gives young people the opportunity to experience new activities or develop existing skills.

2020 Training Dates will be out soon.

Link to The Duke of Edinburgh's Award here!

Programme

Pioneering Day - Aerial Runway

Coming Soon!

We will be doing a Pioneering Skills Days. We will be teaching lashing, knots, pulley system and much more.

Dusk till Dawn - Night Hike

A 28 mile hike setting off as the sun goes down, aim is to finish the walk before sunrise the next day.

We have provisionally put Saturday 26 September for this event. This event date may change as other events that have been organized have changed there date.

Look out for more details soon!

Paintballing - Coming Soon!

Due to weather the February planned paintball was canceled, we will re arrange a date as soon as possible.

We plan on taking the Explorers Paintballing at NPF Bassetts Pole Adventure Park, Bassetts Pole, the cost varies deepening on the package you want. we will require a £15 deposit from you for this, that will prove them a lunch as well. We recommend the silver package that gives you 500 paintball and all kit and equipment for the day. The balance of this event will be paid direct to NPF on the day £30.00 if you chose the Silver package. https://www.npfbassettspole.com/paintballing/paintball

Monopoly Run 2020

The Monopoly Run is open to Explorers, Networks, Senior Section Girlguiding and their Leaders. The next event is 30th October where you will join over 1500 participants on an amazing Adventure around London visiting famous places and winning some great prizes.

In teams of 4-7 you will compete alongside 300 teams travelling by foot, train and bus visiting famous and specially selected monopoly locations. Where you go nobody knows as the locations are kept secret until the day!

Letters and Emails about the date change will be sent out soon!

Week long Summer Camp 2021

For our 2021 adventure we are planning a week long camp at a site we haven’t used before, it’s called Buddens Scout Activity Centre which is located in Dorset. The site isn’t that large, but has lots of onsite activities. We also intend to do plenty of off site visits too, and those we are planning include: Brownsea Island, Shotgun Shooting, Jurassic coast walk, and so much more!

More details coming soon!