Once again the cubs are hell-bent on pleasure, and we are off again on camp. From Friday 21st until Sunday 23rd October, we will be atBelchamps Scout Outdoor Centre, near Southend, in Essex. We will be staying in indoor accomodation that can sleep up to 24. There are bunks in the main hall around the egde, with separate toilet facilities, kitchen and leaders rooms. We will be taking part in activities such as Archery, Rifle Shooting, Climbing and the Assault Course, as well as some more traditional back to basics activities. We will also be completing our Outdoor Challenge badge, and our Navigator Activity badge. Some of our older cubs will also be able to complete their Camper Activity badge, too. The camp is priced at £45 per person, which considering the accommodation and activities, is actually a bit of a steal!

To see some photos of the building we will be staying in, please click here. The video from our last cub camp is available here, so you can see just how much fun they had!

The cubs have recently returned from a very windy camp at Blackland Farm in East Grinstead. This was slightly different to most camps as there were many other groups from the Sutton District - Beavers, Cubs and Scouts camping at the same time.

We took advantage of the competition, challenging neighbouring 11th Wallington cubs to a game of rounders and organising a wide game with 11th and 1st North Wallington. We also had a camp fire with hundreds of members from all over Sutton, where Akela, Bagheera and Baloo were made to sing! In addition, there was plenty of time for the usual activities - rock climbing (above!), abseiling, archery and grass sledging to name a few - plus the cubs all earned their astronomers badge.

As always there are photos available in our gallery, plus a video is now available.

The cubs have returned from a warm weekend to Blackland Farm near East Grinstead, where we joined the rest of our District for an inpromptu District Camp. We spent the weekend doing climbing, bouldering and abseiling, as well as grass sledging, tunnelling and low ropes, not to mention archery and swimming! We were blessed with glorious sunshine, and played joint wide games with other packs and completed our Astronomers Badge. All the cubs had a brilliant time, albeit it a bit tired when we got home!

Well done to all the cubs who went, and my thanks go to the leaders who made this happen - Bagheera, Baloo and Denise.

Photos will be available shortly, and a preview of the video is available below. The full video will be on sale for £5, which will include a short video entitled "The Leaders Cut," which is a rare opportunity to see the leaders making complete fools of themselves!

Last weekend six cubs represented 1st Beddington at the annual District Quiz. Competing against 10 other groups in Sutton District, they put their knowledge to the test over nine rounds of questions. Our cubs did very well, in fact they scored full marks on several rounds, so it was a fantastic achievement when our team won for the second year in a row!  It was also nice to have some very positive comments about our cubs by leaders from other packs.

As last year, the winning cubs will now be going to the County quiz in a months time to compete against other winning packs in Greater London South West.

A very big 'well done' to Tom B, Tom G, James, Stefan, Freddie and Adam - you did us proud, and good luck in the County Quiz!