Our Explorer Unit
Our Explorer Unit offers challenge and adventure for young people (both male and female) aged between 14 and 18 years old.
The activities Explorer Scouting offers include: Mountaineering, Climbing, Caving, Canoeing, Sailing, Powerboating, Windsurfing, Karting, Mountain biking, Skiing and much more. All the activities are run by skilled Leaders who will help you to have the time of your life!
Explorer Scouts is designed to be flexible to fit into the commitments you have at school, college, work and outside scouting. If you have a lot on at school during exams, then Explorer Scouts can take a back seat, and you may miss several meetings. You will still be kept in touch with what’s goin on so that you can join in again when you have more time.
Explorers meet in the upstairs hall of the HQ every Friday between 1930-2130.
For more information about joining our Explorer Unit, please see Contact Us.
The activities Explorer Scouting offers include: Mountaineering, Climbing, Caving, Canoeing, Sailing, Powerboating, Windsurfing, Karting, Mountain biking, Skiing and much more. All the activities are run by skilled Leaders who will help you to have the time of your life!
Explorer Scouts is designed to be flexible to fit into the commitments you have at school, college, work and outside scouting. If you have a lot on at school during exams, then Explorer Scouts can take a back seat, and you may miss several meetings. You will still be kept in touch with what’s goin on so that you can join in again when you have more time.
Explorers meet in the upstairs hall of the HQ every Friday between 1930-2130.
For more information about joining our Explorer Unit, please see Contact Us.
Joining our Explorer Unit
We welcome new members to a no obligation free trial to make sure Explorers is for them. Once a young person has been in a section for 6-8 weeks, they will be asked if they want to be invested in order to become a full member of the Troop. This will involve learning a bit about Scouting, buying a uniform (see Scout Shop) and making a Promise.
The Scout Promise is:
On My Honour
I promise that I will do my best
To do my duty to God and to the Queen,
To help other people
And to keep the Scout Law
We like to invest our new members in unusual locations, so its a moment they'll never forget. We've done investitures in a swimming pool whilst scuba diving, half way down an abseiling tower and in the middle the dodgems at the fair!
The Scout Promise is:
On My Honour
I promise that I will do my best
To do my duty to God and to the Queen,
To help other people
And to keep the Scout Law
We like to invest our new members in unusual locations, so its a moment they'll never forget. We've done investitures in a swimming pool whilst scuba diving, half way down an abseiling tower and in the middle the dodgems at the fair!
Weekly programme
| explorer_autumn_programme_2010.pdf |
The top Awards
The top Award in the Explorer and Scout Network sections is the Queen's Scout Award. In the Explorer Section, you may work towards this by first doing the Chief Scout's Platinum Award and then the Chief Scout's Diamond Award. But you can always jump straight to the one that interests you most...!
For full details on the Explorer Scout training Scheme, click here. |  |
Where the badges go
Our Explorers don't often wear their Uniforms - they save them, clean and neatly ironed, at home in their wardrobes. At least that's what they tell me.
