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20 The Parish Magazine - April 2024 around the villages — 2 This year, 1st Sonning-on-Thames Scouts celebrates its 90 th birthday! Since 1934 many Sonning 'alumni' have been involved creating memories to treasure. Today, the group continues offering its scouts, cubs and beavers a host of activities that the children may not otherwise experience in school and other clubs. A biannual family camp brings together the scouts, cubs and beavers and their family members, to have fun together through a variety of fun activities. SCOUTS Scouts, age from 10½ to 14 years, meet on Wednesday evenings in Beech Lodge Sonning and, as well as camping, enjoy many other outdoor activities such as abseiling, axe throwing, caving, climbing, fire making, katakanuing, pioneering, and raft building, Holly said, 'I like Scouts because I get to do new things like camping, fire lighting, cooking and eating,' while Keiron likes it 'because we have winter camps, when it’s cold!' CUBS Cubs, aged 8 to 10½ years, meet on Monday evenings and get involved in many of the outdoor activities with the scouts along with their own activities including: camping, climbing, cooking, firelighting, hiking, having fun on the water, and indoor games. Indya said, 'I was told by a boy called Josh about the good things like camps and learning knots and even cooking, so I joined cubs to learn to become a better person. I like learning how to do things and to earn badges, and it makes me feel happy. My friend Cicely said she wanted to join so she can learn many things as well.' 'I like going to cubs because I like the outdoors and adventure. I also like learning survival skills and having fun,' added Josh. BEAVERS The beavers, aged 6-8 years, meet on Thursday evenings and have recently been involved in learning about their local community by meeting different groups such as the emergency services, and local sports groups such as Sonning Cricket Club and Berkshire Country Club Tennis Club. They recently visited Sonning Gardens Care Home where they enjoyed craft activities with the residents. Beaver Wilson said, 'I love beavers because we get to see lots of people, and it educates our mind while we are not at school. We learn things that you don't already know about. I enjoyed the firefighters visit when we learned about how they dealt with fires and what they do.' Sonning Parish Council and Sonning Twinning Association members have also visited the beavers to explain how they help serve the local community. Whether playing giant noughts and crosses with pioneering poles, designing, and making Lego models or preparing and munching fruit kebabs while thinking about how to eat healthily, every session is a big hit with the beavers. Beaver Noah summed up one session saying, 'It was fabulous because we built bridges out of newspaper and tape and tested them w played stave hockey!' ADULT L Looking to the future, Scout Group's treasurer, c looking forward to building future. However, we are cur beavers and adult leaders fo need help to keep this sectio especially as we look toward years’ time. SQUIRR 'We’re also want to start year olds called Squirrels an skills for life at a time when it's most needed, and we req it' he said. CHAIR AND ' Additional support is inv whether in a uniformed cap or non-unformed where th chairperson and a group sc HOW TO GET If you have a child intereste or squirrels or you would lik see https://sonningscouts.org.u sonningscouts.org.uk or call A
The Parish Magazine - April 2024 21 April 2024 ith blocks, and we also EADERS Jason Crow, Sonning ommented, 'We are on this heritage for the rently short on both r the beavers colony and n running for the future, s our centenary in a few ELS a new group for local 4-6 d help young people to gain it matters most and where uire volunteers to help run LEADERS aluable across the group acity as section leaders ere are vacancies for a out leader. INVOLVED d in scouts, cubs, beavers, e to get involved yourself, k/ or email: info@ nne on 0795 842 4744
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