Grab your head for heights, the sense of adventure and get ready to return to the Suisse mountains!
Hampshire Scouts are proud to announce the return of the popular Suisse Adventure, slated for 7th to 22nd August 2027.
Staying at the Kandersteg International Scout Centre, the permanent mini-Jamboree itself, and open to all young people aged 14-25 at the time of the trip, this will be an adventure you never forget.
The base cost is £1,400 including:
Extra activities will be available to book at cost, to make the trip your very own!
Interested? Sign up to our register of interest today and the link below:
Or share the flyer below with others so they can join in the fun:
As some of you may be aware, the Hampshire Scouts Media and Communications team have hosted a series of Scouts Speak Up weekend events, combining a young people event and an adult media workshop, mostly on the first weekend in February for many years.
However, we are not planning on holding an event in 2026.
A big thank you to everyone that has helped deliver the events in the past and had already let us know they'd be happy to help this year. However, there are a lot of events happening in Hampshire this winter, making availability of the campsites we need and the volunteers we rely on very tricky.
Plus, many of the young people we would have attracted through Scouts Speak Up to give a county role a go, are being treated to a myriad of other ways to play their part. On top of that, there are now a series of great webinars from the UK Perception team to help too - the next example is here on scouts.org.uk covering an Internal communications plan.
So, we want to try and take the skills and learning to the people. We're going to bring bitesize sessions to existing skills events, such as approaching the Young Leader Rally team for young people, or the adult learning team's skills days for the adults. This is in addition to smaller workshops we can run on request, for Youth leads, at Youth Council, district teams or Scout troops or Explorer Units that want to earn their media badges.
Plus, for young people who are really interested at advocacy, there is also the national Scout Speak Up sessions running again in October 2026 which offer much more draw and support for people looking at those big networking skills.
Want to request the team come and help? Drop us a message at [email protected]! Don't worry, we'll still bring along the badges to our events.
The Countryside Education Trust, based in Beaulieu, New Forest, are looking for young people who wish to connect with the countryside and are looking for new challenges or outdoor experiences.
From one week taster courses, to young volunteer mornings, Year 10 and college work experience, internships and content makers, they provide a host of ways to learn new skills, develop experience and grown the CV.
The course is for young people aged between 16-19 years with an interest in the outdoors or sustainability. This free course is a great opportunity to get hands-on experience in environmental practices, build a CV with unique skills and experiences, and explore a future career in sustainability, nature conservation or farming.
Lifts from Brockenhurst Station and free lunches will be provided. Participants will spend the week working with the centre's farm animals and learning about environmental education, sustainable farming, conservation and woodland management, community engagement and early years education.
Date: 14th-18th July 2025
Times: 10am - 4pm
Location: The Countryside Education Trust, Palace Road, Beaulieu, New Forest
Signup: Email [email protected] to express interest.
Interested in becoming a kayaking or canoeing permit holder?
Already got a permit but want to improve your skills or build your contacts?
Maybe you’re an assessor who wants to help others get their permit?
You’re in luck! There’s a meet up of these permit holders this month.:
Where: 25th Southampton Sea Scouts, SO14 5GZ (Crosshouse road car park)
When: 09:00 to 14:00 on Saturday 26th April
What to bring: Your normal paddling equipment and clothing (Canoe, Kayak, Paddle board), Lunch and drink, Dry clothes
Cost: Free
Please let the organiser know if you intend to come: Steve Preston [email protected]
9:00 Arrive
9:30 Session 1 : Meet permit assessors and presentation on the kayaking and canoeing permits. How to obtain a permit: prerequisites, what to expect at assessment.
10:30 Session 2: On the water : Practising and improving our paddling and leading skills
12:00 Session 3: Rescue skills
13:00 Lunch and after paddling discussion: Sharing planned events this year, planning
assessments.
14:00 Depart
Join HSX for a June Climbing & Walking Adventure in the Peak District!
Sign-ups are now open for HSX's Peak District Climbing Weekend (20–22 June)! Whether you're up for traditional climbing on iconic gritstone, or exploring the Pennine Way, this is a weekend not to be missed.
We’ll be camping, and all food and transport are included in the £85 trip cost (£65 for drivers/instructors).
🚗 Depart: Friday evening from Ferny Crofts, Eastleigh Train Station, or Tesco Winnall
🎒 Kit: List available on OSM
📅 Sign-up deadline: Friday 6 June
📩 To register email [email protected]
Calling all adults and young people! Booking is now open for Hampshire Scouts Speak Up 2025 and our annual adult media workshop.
Build your confidence, learn top tips to spread your stories and get more young people and adult volunteers joining you.
February 2025 sees the return of Hampshire Scouts' training events for adults and young people. Refreshed for this year, we cover how you can get stories of the amazing work Scouts do in every corner of the county in the media and on social media.
Location: Ferny Crofts Scout Activity Centre, New Forest
Hampshire Scouts Speak Up: Friday 7th to Saturday 8th February, free, food and accommodation indoors included plus an adventurous activity. Scouts, Explorers and Scout Network aged 13-25.
Adult Media Workshop: Sunday 9th February, free, food included. Open to any adult volunteer in any role.
Aim: build your confidence, and learn the top tips to share your good news stories online and in the media
These courses are free-of-charge and funded by Hampshire Scouts, so sign up while spaces are available. Timings will be confirmed once registration closes. Places are open to those outside of Hampshire Scouts for a nominal fee of £5.
Bookings close mid-January 2025. Event is subject to cancellation if interest is insufficient so book early to avoid disappointment.
As part of the event we cover:
These give you skills not only to help grow your own skillset but also helps spread the word about what we do so more people can get involved locally. Knowing how to answer difficult questions helps in your career just as much as on camera too.
For our young people taking part in Scouts Speak Up, you'll be in small groups supported by a mentor who has done this before and can offer some tips if it feels a little daunting. For our adults attending the Adult Media Workshop there are plenty of volunteers able to answer your questions too.
We always aim to provide an adventurous activity for our young people on Scouts Speak Up and we decide this based on the requirements of our young people attending. We'll provide dormitory accommodation at Ferny Crofts overnight and keep you well fed through the weekend too.
Young people can also earn or work towards the Media and PR activity badges by attending.
All this is free of charge to Hampshire Scouts.
The team at Hinton Ampner have filled the available spaces at the moment and will let us know if any more become available. Thank you to everyone that has expressed an interest so far.
Looking to get out into nature this winter and complete a Community Impact project at the same time? We may have a project for you!
The National Trust at Hinton Ampner, near Alresford, are looking for help from community groups to plant trees.
They are currently part way through a massive ‘Reimagining a Hampshire Estate’ project where they are creating new habitat for wildlife, capturing carbon and providing some natural flood measures and creating 60-hectare of woodland.
As part of that they need help to plant 60,000 trees in just over 3 years!
The tree planting period is winter, so between December 2024 and March 2025, they are looking to invite community groups to get involved in helping plant trees.
To get in touch with the Ranger team and volunteer as a section, Scout Group, Explorer Unit, Scout Network or adult volunteer group, contact them through their form. Plus find out about the Community Impact staged activity badge on scouts.org.uk.
The team at Hinton Ampner have filled the available spaces at the moment and will let us know if any more become available. Thank you to everyone that has expressed an interest so far.
Rifle Shooting opportunities are coming in for the early months of 2025, with details of a Hampshire Scouts competition and training for leaders' permits joining the calendar.
The 21st Romsey Rifle Club are the hosts for this year's Hampshire Scouts Confined Sporter Air Rifle Competition. Involving 6 yard standing air rifle shooting, the event includes competition classes for Scouts, Explorers and Network/volunteers.
Postal qualification entry is during January and March, with the finals for the top eight of each class competing on the 14th June 2025.
Enter on the 21st Romsey Rifle Club website.
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For adult members interested in becoming an Air Rifle Instructor with the National Small-Bore Rifle Association Youth Proficiency Scheme Tutor, you're in luck! There is course taking place in Romsey on 15th and 16th February.
Full details and booking on the Instructor's website. Cost £95 for Scouting members, including NSRA registration.
The NSRA Youth Proficiency Scheme Tutor's Diploma is the standard course to equip adult instructors to run both "taster" sessions in air rifle shooting and also YPS courses which young people can use as part of their DofE or Top Awards. It covers the law, safety considerations, equipment, how to construct a range, Group control, basic shooting skills, sighting, scoring, targets and competitions and shooting games.
It’s six years since the team at Bramshill Scouts made an autumn half-term trip to Belgium and France so the time has come for another visit with a new group of Scouts and Explorers.
This time, there are still some spaces on the coach. Join them between the 30th October and 3rd November on this remembrance trip to Ypres.
Those interested should drop the Bramshill District Lead Volunteer an email for further information – [email protected]
On the journey from Calais, the expedition hope to have time to stop at Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, where a hospital had been located and pay our respects to the 33 former Scouts who lie there.
On our first evening in Ypres, we will parade our flags at the Last Post Ceremony at Menin Gate and lay a wreath. More than 140 former Scouts are commemorated on the memorial.
Our trip will include visits to Essex Farm Cemetery, the Passchendaele Museum and trench system, and then a cross-country walk to Tyne Cot Military Cemetery. This is the largest Commonwealth war graves cemetery, where we will have a battlefield guide help our young people learn as much as possible about the history and relevance of the site’s location. More than 115 former Scouts are buried or commemorated here. We’ll also visit the German Military Cemetery of Langemark.
Friday 1st November is a public holiday in Belgium, and the Ypres Scout Group is visiting us and we’ll entertain them with some ‘English’ games like ‘Shove-halfpenny’, dominoes and tiddly winks! Afterwards we’ll take a meal together and have a badge swap.
On Saturday we are heading down into France to visit Vimy Ridge, where there are memorials to the Canadian troops who fought alongside us in WWI and a visitor centre.
On the return trip we will visit the town of Poperinge, an important staging post and rest area in WWI. We will explore the town and its association with the men who were ‘shot at dawn’.
| The Hampshire Beavers team are excited to announce an addition to the calendar for 2023 as we plan a visit to Portsmouth Historic Dockyard. With a wealth of history from the Mary Rose, including their new 4D experience, to The Victory. We have managed to secure all access passes for the day, this includes all attractions and the 90min harbour boat tour. The cost per Beaver, including all the attractions, boat tour, our exclusive badge, a picnic badge and a secret treat is just £29! I have worked closely with the events team and have secured a free leader place for every 3 beavers attending, We appreciate that some groups need a higher ratio of adults so all additional are just £5. Young Leaders will also benefit from this amazing discount. Adult tickets are normally £44 so this is very generous of the Dockyard. Those beavers with an annual Pass to the dockyard will need to pay £5 to cover the badges and little extras We will be there the weekend of 25-26 November and you can choose either day to visit. You don't want to miss out on our first Hampshire Beavers Portsmouth Historic Dockyard badge do you? Bookings are now open at https://forms.office.com/e/taADudBP1x but be quick! Booking Deadline is 5th November and the payment deadline will be the 8th November We can't wait to see you there Any questions please get in touch |
