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98 Leaders, Beavers, Cubs and Scouts will join in a weekend of themed activities with Cubs and Scouts camping for 3 nights.

Activities include water games, cycling, running, climbing, archery, shooting, inflatables, craft and much more. There will be a burger bar, karoke  evening and a live band as well.

KD9′s camp is based on a theme of China and all sections have been busy on building dragons, lanterns, learning to write their name in Chinese, building a Chinese wall and much more.

KD9′s cost has been partly funded by a £1000 contribution from local councillor Steven Clee’s County Council fund.

Leaders will join Beavers, Cubs and Scouts erecting over 30 tents for the event on Thursday 3rd May in readiness for the event.

Over 650 Scouters from Kidderminster will be at the event in Rhydd Covert, our local District campsite based on the outskirts of the town.

Watch out for pictures of the fun..

It was a great evening organised by Anne and Sharon and a great time was had by all. Not least by Callum who won a bottle of whiskey after getting the nearest to the bottle rolling a 50p and Simon who won a much needed Tesco voucher to help with food supplies. Joe won a £10 M&S voucher and he promised to give that to his Mum!!

Suprised winners of the event were team “Lost Cause” – made up of Nicki, Paul, Rachel and Ian – and they won a £25 prize donated by a local firm.

Over £205 was raised to help Wednesday Scouts fund their camping trip to Marlow in July

Wednesday Scouts collected just over £105 which will help towards their costs at their Marlow kyack camp in July  whilst Thursday Scouts made nearly £90 towards camp funds.

The Cubs section formed part of the Cubjam 2013 District team and their 3 hour stint pulled in a massive £485 which will go some way to helping to reduce the camp costs. Cubjam is a week long event in May 2013 where Districts 60 stong cub contingent will attend a fun packed national Cub camp at Gilwell. Over 25 Cubs from KD9 will form part of the District attendees along with Rachel and Emily.

However, the hard work was really worth it and we raised just over £1,000 for our Group funds. This was a welcome increase on other years and goes along way to help keep costs down for parents and for leaders to provide a balanced programme throughout the year.

Thanks to all the youngsters and leaders for helping and to the shoppers from Sainsbury’s and Morrisons who made such great donations.

There will be no Scouts on the Wednesday prior to this meeting and all sections will meet at the AGM on the Thursday.

Car parking is available.

In a royal blue colour with sky blue motif, the T shirts are made of good quality cotton and can be used on camp and meeting nights when uniform in not required.

They are priced at just £6.50. Group Chairperson Anne Parry will be visiting each section over the next month so that parents can have a look at the T shirts and also place an immediate order.

The T shirts come at a time when they will be useful wear at Rhydd for meetings there or when the youngsters go on camp.

Adult sizes are available for all leaders and helpers as well. Please see Anne for details.

Thursday Scouts start off with a chilly walk and camp under canvas on 11th Feb at Rhydd. Wednesday Scouts will follow when the weather gets a bit warmer at the end of March, possibly at Kinver or Blackwell.

At the start of May, the Group are camping as a whole with over 90 campers at the District Camp, also at Rhydd, during the bank holiday weekend. The Beavers are taking part in their first ever camp under canvas on the Saturday night.

To cope with the massive take up at this camp which has been partly funded with a generous cash donation of £1,000 from the County Council, the Group are subsidising the camp fees by a third and have invested in over £1700 of new tents. These new tents will replace some of those old ones coming to the end of their camping life. 

In June, KD9 Cubs will form a large contingent of the sixers and seconders District cub camp at Blackwell near Bromsgrove and over the weekend of 13 and 14th July Wednesday Scouts are venturing to Marlow in Bucks to camp by the Thames and also to take their stage one Kayaking course.

September will see a KD9 cub camp – venue yet to be decided and I am sure one of the sections will camp over Plod weekend in October.

That means each Cub and Scout in KD9 will get the chance to have up to 8 days under canvas this year – it’s going to be very busy.

One of over 20 Cubs who had a great time at the ice skating ring in Birmingham – all skaters gained their ice skating badge.

Some skaters such as Florence and Grace did really well for their first time on their ice but soem took a little while to adapt!!

Two KD9 Cubs have a go at the hands on science part of Millenium Point