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The UK Chief Scout Tells Us All About His Love of Adventure April/May 2015 WIN 20 tickets to Alton Towers Page 60 BEAR GRYLLSThe UK Chief Scout tells us all about his love of adventure THE YORKSHIRE THREE PEAKS Break out your hiking boots for this endurance walk 10 TOP TIPS To help you get fit SURF’S UP! Cornish Scouts are hitting the waves Join, share and get involved at Scouts Scotland Scouting Editors Abbie Cavendish, Lee Griffiths, Vicky Milnes and Kevin Yeates Adventure for all Scouting Scotland Editor Scouting ensures that young people have access to adventure Addie Dinsmore With thanks to… Jagz Bharth, Ralph Doe, – it’s been that way since the beginning. We have always Bear Grylls, Graham Haddock, Eddie James, encouraged young people to get outside, make friends and start Hannah Kentish, Stephen Lewis, Samantha Marks, Justin Mullender, Mike Newman, Terry O’Neill, creating their own adventures. This issue of Scouting showcases Charlotte Ord, Emma Saunders, Rupert Shanks, just some of those adventures. On page 20 you can read about Pete Stillman, James Stuttart, Jay Thompson, Trail Magazine, Yeji Yeti Yun a Group of surfing Scouts in Cornwall and the leaders who are Cover Image Air New Zealand/Rex making sure everyone can have a go – no matter what. The national magazine of The Scout Association ISSN 0036 – 9489 Scouting has always opened young people’s eyes to the world © 2015 The Scout Association of promise and possibilities around them. On page 41, you can Registered Charity Numbers: SC038437 and 306101 (England and Wales) read about the very first adventures of some of our members; Published by The Scout Association, Gilwell Park, Chingford, London E4 7QW even though they took place in the last 50 years, the spirit of Tel: 0845 300 1818 Fax: 020 8433 7103 adventure and excitement hasn’t changed a single bit. Email: [email protected] Website: scouts.org.uk/magazine For young Scouts the simplest adventures can make In association with the most powerful memories and can lead to the most Scouts Scotland, Registered Scottish Charity No. SC017511, affiliated to The Scout Association (UK). incredible opportunities. How many of you remember Scottish Scout HQ, Fordell Firs, climbing hills as a kid; feeling like you were on top of the Hillend, Dunfermline, Fife KY11 7HQ Tel: 01383 419073 world as you ran (or rolled) back down them? That’s how Website: scouts.scot members of the Hampshire Mountaineering Team got Facebook: facebook.com/scoutassociation started – you can read about their latest trip to Scotland, Please send all contributions to: [email protected] where they hone their winter mountaineering skills, Please note that the views expressed by members and on page 34. contributors in the magazine are not necessarily those of The Scout Association. You can read about how I developed my Scouting Scotland is produced taste for adventure on page 26, where you’ll by Immediate Media Branded Content, 2nd Floor, Tower House, also find an exciting bit of news about my Fairfax Street, Bristol BS1 3BN future as Chief Scout. Editor Alex Drew Art Editor James Daniel Of all the things that Scouts do and Designer Dean Purnell learn, for me, there are two that stick out: Project Manager Celia Beale Director of Immediate Media Branded Content following your dreams and looking after Julie Williams your friends. Each and every story in this ADVERTISING issue is a fantastic example of both of Advertising Manager Jamie Bolton Email: [email protected] these qualities, and I hope you find them Tel: 0117 314 7356 as inspirational as I do. It is important to note the differing structures of UK Scouting in Scotland, England, Wales and Northern Ireland. However, for ease of reading this supplement refers to all variations of ‘County’-level groupings simply as County. You can read Scouting magazine and Get Active! online at scouts.org.uk/magazine. 122,106 average UK circulation of Scouting (1 Jan–31 Dec 2014) © Immediate Media Branded Content. Printed in the UK by William Gibbons. All rights reserved. Unauthorised reproduction in whole or part is prohibited without written permission. Every effort has been made to Bear Grylls secure permission for copyright material. In the event of any material being used inadvertently, or where Chief Scout it proved impossible to trace the copyright owner, acknowledgement will be made in a future issue. PEFC/16-33-795 This magazine can be recycled, for We are proud to say Scouting is PEFC use in newspapers and packaging. certified. For more information go to Please remove any gifts, samples or pefc.co.uk. Promoting sustainable wrapping and dispose of it at your forest management. local collection point. Scouts Scotland SCOUTING 3 The adventure issue We asked the UK Youth Commissioner UP FRONT Team to tell 9 News us about their The latest from Scout HQ most memorable What’s on adventures. We also 15 want to hear about your Unmissable dates for your diary exploits, so head to our Facebook 17 Mailbox page to share them and email Your letters, emails, tweets, [email protected]. posts and pictures uk to sign up to our reader panel. !" Hannah Kentish – UK FEATURES Youth Commissioner 20 Surf’s up! ‘I first started having Cornish Scouts are hitting the adventures as a 10-year- waves and you can too! THE KNOWLEDGE old Scout. Rock-climbing 26 A taste for adventure was one of the first UK Chief Scout Bear !" Volunteer things I did and I loved COVER it; I also got to go on my Grylls shares his love STORY DC Ben Scholes shares his first summer camp shortly after joining and of the outdoors and all love of adventure didn’t want to go home! This summer I will be things Scouting #$ Advice off to the Philippines to complete my Scouts 34 From Scotland to the Your questions answered by of the World award after the Jamboree – I’m South Pole so excited!’ our experts Our guest writer is put through #! Health Jay Thompson – her paces by a group in training Add exercise to your day Deputy UK Youth for an expedition to Antarctica with our top 10 tips Commissioner 41 First time adventures #% Walk ‘Having grown up on Scouting members share their the Isle of Man, I’ve Not for the faint-hearted, been lucky enough to fond memories this 24-mile walk over the have plenty of outdoor Yorkshire Three Peaks will adventures on my REGULARS put older Scouts through doorstep. My most memorable adventure has 6 Wayne’s word their paces to be travelling to Tuvalu, in the South Pacific, This issue’s message from Games when I was 18. I had the challenge of taking %& the Scout spirit of adventure to somewhere it the UK Chief Commissioner A bumper issue of games to had all but disappeared, and it was one of the 66 Last word keep you entertained! most rewarding things I’ve ever done.’ Read about the Meek family %' Food who gave up the daily grind for For a fail-safe campfire treat, Jagz Bharth – everyday adventure Deputy UK Youth try these caramelised apples Commissioner ‘I can’t remember a time when I wasn’t a Scout and I’ve tried to go on as many adventures as possible – some obvious stand-outs being leading a Group on our Queen’s Scout Award expedition to Peru and the World Scout Jamboree in Denmark where I made friends who I’m still in touch with. I love exploring beyond where I live – I’m DOWNLOAD THE trying to make sure the Cubs and Scouts I lead BLIPPAR APP TO THEN WHEN FILL YOUR BLIPP get to have as much adventure as I did!’ YOUR SMARTPHONE YOU SEE THIS SCREEN WITH TO LIFE! OR TABLET SIGN… THE IMAGE… 4 SCOUTING April/May 2015 Everyday adventure It attracts hundreds of young people to Scouting every year, but our brand of adventure o!ers so much more than exhilaration alone, says the UK Chief Commissioner hether you’re talking about a Beaver’s first nature walk or a Cub’s first hike, Wadventure is at the core of Scouting’s popularity. I certainly remember some of my own first adventures with Scouts as a boy, as well as leading my Patrol in some of their early adventures – whether that was on an overnight rowing expedition on the River Hamble or a hike across the South Downs as a Our young people will learn Venture Scout. teamwork, leadership and resilience from Scouting’s By supporting these youth-led brand of adventure activities, we are building on our ambitions to be shaped by young IN THE DIARY ‘We will put the outdoors, Here’s where Wayne will be in the coming weeks… adventure, teamwork and APRIL 10–11 UKCC Team leadership at the very core of our 17–19 County Tyrone, Northern Ireland Isle of Man refreshed youth programme’ 25–26 Operations Committee National Queen Scout Celebrations, Windsor people in partnership with adults. That’s also why we’re kicking And it is these adventures – and the off Cubs 100, our centenary of Cub MAY growing awareness of Scouting’s Scouts with the Year of Adventure this 1–2 Pembrokeshire/South Wales particular brand of everyday adventure year. Here we will put the outdoors, 3 The Big Camp, Yorkshire – that encourages young people to join adventure, teamwork and leadership 9 Oxfordshire Awards Day our Movement. It is also the means by at the very core of our refreshed youth 16–17 Jamboree all adults weekend, Gilwell. Merseyside Youth which we provide the opportunities programme, ensuring that a whole ‘On Tour’, Gilwell for young people of all ages to learn new generation of young people 16–27 Warwickshire Get In 2015 a variety of invaluable life skills: continues to learn by doing through 20 Northern Ireland SGD Awards teamwork, leadership and resilience the medium of our particular brand of 22–24 NE Scotland, Shetlands, Orkney to name just a few.
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