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As well as communication, team work and communication Scouting teaches young people many other skills. Growing up in Scouting I learnt many of these skills through being part of a team and working together. I remember one camp we did when I first moved up from Cubs to Scouts. I had been camping before with Cubs and outside of Scouting but that camp would be my first experience of making my own sle...
Source: Jay Thompson's South Pacific Adventure
All over the world the 100 year anniversary of the tragedy of the Titanic was marked in many different ways. Mainly by repeating the Titanic film a couple of times of TV but with Tuvalu being a sea faring nation sending a large amount of sailors around the globe it commemorated it with a Tuvaluan style BBQ on the beach at the office that deals with sea farers recruitment (ALFHA). A one minutes sil...
Source: Jay Thompson's South Pacific Adventure
Growing up on a tropical island with bath warm water clear as glass and the nearest beach never being more than a few hundred meters away young people know how to swim. Growing up on an island (a little less tropical) myself I love the sea and do get withdrawals when I don"t see if for a few days. I fish, kayak and spend most of my time on the beach when I am in the Isle of Man (no matter the...
Source: Jay Thompson's South Pacific Adventure
Chocolate for breakfast, lunch and dinner with some egg hunting and rolling mixed in. Maybe a church service or a family outing with an afternoon walk. Most families in the UK will have something of that combination in mind when wondering what to do at Easter. However for me this year as the UK wakes up to a Easter Sunday morning I was getting off a boat in the scorching Pacific sun after a weeken...
Source: Jay Thompson's South Pacific Adventure
An update on progress made and challenges encountered by the Working Groups and Core Groups and a review of the budgetary process were major points on the agenda of the recent meeting of the European Regional Scout Committee at Gilwell Park, the historic Scout Centre of The Scout Association (UK) located on the edge of London.
Source: Latest News from the Europe Office - scout.org
Being a Manx lad the spaghetti network of the London underground madness people call the tube is a completely baffling to me. All those millions of people going backwards and forwards at a horrific speed going about their daily lives. It was a mystery to me then when I had to cross the UK and London to go to Gilwell park (UK Scout HQ) one year ago today. It seemed like an adventure, to be going o...
Source: Jay Thompson's South Pacific Adventure
Have you ever been reading a book and put it down for a few weeks, when you pick it back up again you forget where you were up to and have lost the plot? Well I want to send a big apology out becuase I have neglected my brilliant readers for far too long.
A lot has happened in the last few weeks with Scouting, visits and much more so give me a few days and you will here all about the adventure...
Source: Jay Thompson's South Pacific Adventure
30 million Scouts in 216 different countries and territories and not one Scout group is the same. Different adventures, interests and ambitions. Growing up in my first Scout group I got a passion for the outdoors and running around getting cold, wet and muddy. Other groups will lead you down different paths and you will take different steps. No two countries with Scouting are the same. So when we ...
Source: Jay Thompson's South Pacific Adventure
