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- New year, New Camping Season!
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- Do you have what it takes to see the big picture, make decisions, and work together to help Grafton
- In case any of our 1st Hardingstone Families are free to help tomorrow 🙂
- To make extra room for group camp TODAY we are purchasing 20 of these tents. They have an upstairs a
- Happy Easter Wishes!
- Who says squirrels can’t do “proper scouting”? Not us!!
- Did you know Beavers can grow to over a metre in size excluding their tail!!
- Who doesn’t love an Airfix kit!
- Happy St Patricks Day! #stpatricksday2024 #friendship #scouting #hardingstone
- Welland Beavers Safari Sleepover is off to a fun start! Learning about tracking, building dens and c
- Basil our Welland Beaver has had a very exciting day at the Elizabeth Woodville School careers day!
- Happy International Women’s Day to the Amazing Female Leaders of 1st Hardingstone Scout Group!
- Happy Mother’s Day to all the wonderful Mums out there.
- Thank you to Keystone Roofing Supplies for helping Danelaw Cubs in completing lots of their DIY Ba
- Happy Founder’s Day!
- Happy Valentines Day to everyone in the 1st Hardingstone Family! #valentinesday #spreadthelove #ha
- Morning has broken on our hope centre sleepout. We’ve raised almost £2000 inc gift aid for the Nort
- 1st Hardingstone Big sleepout is underway! Shelters are built and the fire is lit.
- Your young person has been working hard and has come home with some much prized badges but aaaaagh w
- Happy International Lego Day!
- This afternoon this awesome team of 6 Mercia Cubs represented us at Grafton District Scouts Cubs To
- Our Viking Scouts have been enjoying working on their Model Maker Badges over at Warhammer – Northam
- 1st Hardingstone’s Big Sleepout for Northampton Hope Centre
- 19 days into 2024 and we’ve had 2 more sections on nights away!
- Happy National Popcorn Day!
- Ulfhednar Explorer Scout unit is so great even the wildlife tried joining in last night! #wildlife
- Meet the newest Member of Mercia Cubs! Before Christmas our Mercia Cubs worked hard to create delic
- 12 days into the New Year and we have had our 1st Nights Away!
- How to be you. Plenty of food for thought not just for young minds but all minds.
- Is there a parent/guardian/friend/follower who can assist us with completing and officially filing o
- 1st Hardingstone Scouts are gearing up for another year of epic adventures, campfires under the star
- We climbed, we hiked, we paddled, we laughed. Raising over £1000 for the Northampton Hope Centre by
- From campfire singalongs to derby races, chip shop hikes to litter picks, our Cubs have had a packed
- Our Beavers are busy and bold and that’s exactly how their year has been!
- They may be our smallest section but they’ve packed a big punch with their activities this year!! C
- After speaking to Santa earlier, to make sure he’d got the Online Santa Manager updates of good deed
- We wish all of our followers a wonderful Christmas!
- Christmas present appeal Every Christmas we ask our group members to choose a gift, they would enj
- This may affect our older sections in the New Year, essential maintenance works on the A45 between
- We’ve got a full house for our carol concert!
- Our Squirrels visited Castle Hill URC, Northampton to help them pack special parcels for those in ne
- Coming soon to Grafton District Scouts Ulfhednar Explorer Scout Unit.
- Our Squirrels visited Castle Hill URC, Northampton to help pack the special Christmas hampers that a
- All welcome!
- Are you bright eyed and bushy tailed?
- We are on the move!
- You are never too young to make a difference!
- Beavers Danceathon for Children in Need
- Scouts – 7 ways to help your local community on World Kindness Day
- So proud of all of our young people at the Hardingstone Village Remembrance parade this morning. Our
- Remembrance activities have taken place all week across the group. Our Nene Beavers made plantable c
- Latest from the 1st
- Camping and weekly commitment isn’t for everyone!
- It doesn’t matter what age you are, you can still make a difference in this world.
- Happy Halloween to all of our ghoulish followers!
- Thank you to Northampton Emergency Aid Team for visiting our Squirrels and Nene Beavers this week.
- We’ve had a Fantastic day taking part in JOTA-JOTI 50 young people from Squirrels up to Explorers ha
- 1st Hardingstone Beavers – Fundraising for Children in Need
- Thank you to Revd Julie, our group Padre, from St Edmund’s Church, Hardingstone who came to talk to Our Squirrels
- Our Squirrels had some very exciting visitors this week! Thank you to Ian and his dogs Alfie and Mac
- “How are you?”Its a simple question but how often do we actually answer it truthfully?
- GOOD LUCK HARDINGSTONE SCOUT YOUTH BAND!
- Keep your eyes peeled!! Our Mercia Cubs “Bananas of Happiness” will be popping up near you!
- Happy World Smile Day! A day devoted to smiles and acts of kindness.
- We love a little friendly rivalry, so after much debate amongst the Beavers and the Leaders help us to decide who wins the 5star review of Bug Hotel?
- 3 weeks in to the new Scout year and we have our 2 Cub Packs AND our Viking Scouts on camp!
- The BER months are here and it’s almost time for us to return to scouting! We wonder what adventures we will have this term?
- Good Luck to all the Explorers that pick up their #GCSEResults today!
- What a gorgeous day our Scouts and Explorers have had on Brownsea Island today, including some investitures
- Scouts & Explorers are on a trip to The Tank Museum today.
- Beavis our Nene Beaver has been on his holidays and found 6th Torbay Britannia Sea Scouts RN29
- Dorset has had a Hardingstone invasion!
- Balloon Festival
- A fantastic morning today with our Nene and Welland Beaver colonies who completed a hike around Sywell
- Hardingstone Scout Youth Band have featured in the Drum Corps World Magazine!
- Hardingstone/Mountain Lions at 25th World Scout Jamboree
- To the Friends
- Scouts – Scout badges
- Bon Voyage!
- That’s a wrap!!
- Messing about on the river!
- We are feeling AMAZING tonight having been presented with the only ‘Club 200’ certificate in the county
- We’re on threads!
- Our Amazing Band!
- Good Luck to our amazing band performing as an Exhibition band in the British Youth Band Association
- 200 is a really big number!
- Summer has officially started! Take part in the Scouts Sixty Days of Summer Bucket List, take a look.
- Our Welland Beavers built an awesome Bug Hotel in the church yard of Saint Edmund’s Church, Hardingstone.
- Celebration Evening and AGM
- Thank you to all the Scout Dads and Father figures for all you do to be role models to inspire our young people.
- We are so, so proud of some of older Scouts who have completed their Chief Scout Gold Expedition.
- Viking Scouts become messengers of peace.
- No matter your skills, experience or the amount of time you can spare we GUARANTEE there is a role f
- We need tidy uppers, tea makers, activity planners, tent pitchers, painters and odd jobbers just as we need leaders.
- Louise begun helping out in September 2022 to help her young son settle when he joined, she loved it so much she joined us too!
- Stuart loves scouting so much he volunteers in not just one, but two sections!
- Vicky first fell into scouting accidently when she became an occasional helper
- Our Chairman Claire’s children joined the group in 2010 and since then the whole Family got involved!
- Meet cub leader Vicki who joined us for a 4 week challenge in 2019 and is still having fun!
- Its National Volunteers’ Week and we want to acknowledge and thank all of our fabulous Volunteers!
- Scouts sleep rough for Hope Centre
- Busy Time at the 1st!
- Squirrels Begin!
- Northampton’s Newest Scout Band!
- Scout and Proud
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- Beavers on the move!
- Happy International Tea Day!
- Today is International Day of Families. From step-family and foster families, to
- Penny Hike Mercia Cubs let the penny decide the route last night, from leaving
- Batter Up! Huge Thanks to Paul from Northants Baseball Club who ran a fantastic
- Happy Birthday Squirrels!!
- Come and join us with a 4 week challenge!
- The Big Help out
- The Big Help Out We’d love to see you at the Rec from 12.30!
- We’ve been celebrating the King’s Coronation throughout the week.
- Celebrate the Coronation with a Picnic on Hardingstone Parish Council Rec on Monday
- As the main part of our Coronation Camp closes we want to say a MASSIVE Thanks to our AMAZING Volunteers
- A huge Happy Birthday to our very own Hathi.
- What’s a camp without a campfire?
- You are never too young (or old for that matter!) to learn from Skip #Squirrels
- Everyone is having a great time on our Coronation Camp
- An Exciting day!
- Scouts – Nights away: how to prepare your child for their first camp or sleepover
- Happy St George’s Day! Baden Powell choose St George to be scouting’s Patron S
- Happy Easter to all Friends of 1st Hardingstone, we hope you have a lovely day a
- Wow! Another super busy term for 1st Hardingstone Scout Group
- Coronation Champion Awards | Volunteer Nominations | Royal Voluntary Service
- The Big Help Out is a national day of volunteering happening on Monday 8 May 202
- Happy Mother’s Day to all the wonderful Mums. Mum’s who drop off on scouting nig
- Scouting is for all!
- This week was all about food for our squirrels!
- Welcome to the 200 Club!
- We are busy planning our future Camps including another trip to Kandersteg
- Hardingstone is officially a Supergroup!
- Group Band Play at Murall unvieling
- Scouting for all?
- Carol Service to wrap up the year
- The Mystery of the Saxon Scout Bowls!
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- I’m a Cub moving on to Scouts. What will happen?
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