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]
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.
On Saturday 23rd September at Hawley Lake, Minley, Hampshire, we're running an assessment day so you can gain your Kayaking or Canoeing permit for B1 waters.
Attendees will need to work to the Kayak Assessment Checklist and be compliant with the POR rules for water activities, a recap on the POR rules will also be given on the assessment day. Applicants will need to be at the old BCU 3* level for flat water strokes or alternatively have passed the BC Explore Award.
The day will run from 0900 to 1700 and you will need to bring with you a kayak or canoe plus your paddling equipment, together with a packed lunch. Showers and changing facilities will be available on site. There may be a possibility to hire equipment on the day, please contact me if you require this.
If you are interested in attending the assessment please send me an email with your name, telephone number and scout membership number and I will be in touch with further details. If you have any questions please feel free to ask.
Email Paul Mant, County Assessor
HSX are hosting the AdEx Challenge, a series of challenges and bases to test your teamwork and leadership skills. Activities will be based around an expedition scenario.
The weekend will finish with a HSX social on Sunday lunchtime. So if you've caught the expedition bug you can find out more about HSX, our future expeditions and our regular UK training weekends.
When: Saturday 16th - Sunday 17th September
Where: Ferny Crofts Scout Activity Centre, New Forest
Who: Explorer and Network Scouts over the age of 14
Cost - £25pp
Sign-up closes on Sunday 18th August.
Hampshire Scout Expeditions (HSX) is a county-based organisation specialising in youth development through mountainous activities and international expeditions. Throughout the year we run numerous training weekends throughout the UK to adventurous locations such as the Brecon Beacons, Lake District, Snowdonia and the Cairngorms.
We also have a track record of leading international expeditions to all corners of the globe, running trips places such as Nepal, Peru, Patagonia, Belize and Cambodia, as well as placing members on the summit of Mount Everest and the South Pole!
Archery as well as being an Olympic target sport is also an inclusive and exciting adventurous activity for our young people. Thankfully for those looking to lead these activities, there are courses coming up:
Christchurch Scouts have Aim 4 Sport running an Archery GB Instructors Course at Braggers Wood on the 9th and 10th September.
They are offering a discount to Scout members so if you have anyone that might be interested.
Please book via https://www.aim4sport.com/courses/archery-gb-instructor-courses-now-available/
This is a two day course which is designed for people with little or no prior experience of Archery. Candidates must be at least 17 years old by the start of the course.
Topics that are covered within the course are; how to shoot arrows, preparing and delivering Archery sessions, how to select appropriate equipment, setting up a range and how to ensure safety on the range. Successful candidates will gain an Archery GB Instructor licence which will last for three years.
This course is not catered, so please bring lunches for the two days, although tea and coffee will be provided throughout. You will be working outdoors from time to time, so please wear appropriate clothing and bring waterproofs.
The days will run from approximately 9:00am to 5:00pm. Cost is £175. Camping can be booked separately.
Book at https://fernycrofts.cinolla.com/
After a successful start to 2023, places are starting to fill up on the annual Hampshire Scout Expeditions (HSX) trip to the Lake District over the Easter Weekend.
Heading up on Thursday, 6th April, the trip will offer Explorers and Network Scouts the opportunity to get out into the Lakeland Fells. Over the course of the weekend, participants will have the opportunity to go climbing, hillwalking and scrambling - there may even be an opportunity for a wild camp!
As part of the trip, HSX will be providing transport for the weekend (with picks available from Ferny Crofts, Eastleigh train station and Tesco Winnall), food for the weekend, indoor accommodation, and qualified instructors.
For more information or to sign up, please contact Tom Robinson at [email protected].
Sign-up is open until Wednesday, 15th March 2023.
As we look forward to a a new term our programme for November usually includes our act of Remembrance which takes place on the Sunday nearest to 11th November, the anniversary of the end of hostilities in the First World War.
It is an opportunity to remember the service and sacrifice of all those that have defended our freedoms and protected our way of life and commemorates British service members who have died in wars and other military conflicts since the beginning of World War One.
But how do we ensure those who gave their lives are not forgotten? And how do we involve young people in this?
Since its establishment by Royal Charter in 1917, the Commonwealth War Graves Commission have constructed 2,500 war cemeteries and plots, erected headstones over graves and where the remains are missing, inscribed the names of the dead on permanent memorials. More than a million burials are now commemorated at military and civil sites in more than 150 countries and territories.
The work of the CWGC is supported by a group of volunteers across the country who work alongside the Public Engagement Co-Ordinators and deliver a range of talks about the varied work of the CWGC, its history but also, importantly, its work today.
Today, over a century after the CWGC first began, their work continues through the staff, supporters and volunteers who preserve our unique cultural, horticultural and architectural heritage and ensure that the stories of those who died in the First World War and Second World War are told.
Their aim is to actively engage new audiences and find innovative ways to involve the whole community with our work – through education and outreach, voluntary activity, arts and heritage projects, local research and partnership working. We aim to increase local awareness of CWGC sites across the UK.
If you're a Squirrel, Beaver, Cub, Scout or Explorer section and would like a guided tour of a cemetery near you or a talk on our work delivered at your H.Q. you can book a talk, using this link - www.cwgc.org/talks and for tours or anything else, please email - [email protected]
This year Remembrance Sunday is on 13th November.
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