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Challenge 100

Scouts form centenary patrols to complete a 100-minute challenge.  This challenge features activities from each of the six Scout Programme Zones, and the results of their challenge can be entered into the Challenge 100 website to qualify for the second phase, which will happen later in the year.

World friendship party

Hold a party for your Troop to make friends with people from the local community, make friendship bracelets, play games and enjoy party food.

The friendship knot

If you’re going to wear your centenary scarf with pride, your Scouts will need to know this essential knot.

100 games

Hold a meeting where Scouts play as many global sports and games in 100 minutes, or play as many games as they can out of a list of 100.

AQUANAUT  TRAINING  CENTRE 

PUTNEY ~ WIMBLEDON ~ KINGSTON* ~ SURBITON

PADI 5 Star Dive Centre School, Shop & Club

We have gone diving with Aquanaut and will be arranging another session next year.  The evening will include a safety talk and a brief introduction to the equipment before taking you into the water. We will have our underwater Diver Propulsion Vehicles (DPV) available for each Scout to have a turn at being 'James Bond'. We also have a deeper swim down to 4m on scuba, more relevant to a future scuba course. The subsidized cost will be £5 per head (the full price is £15). 

At the end of the session you will receive a Certificate each to commemorate the occasion in a 'thank you' pack.  You will need swimming gear and a towel.

You need to be in good health and fully fit for diving.  You will need to complete the first page of the medical consent form in order to sign up. Download a pdf consent form (ignore pages 2-6 which are for those who are unfit in some way).

We meet as normal in uniform at 7pm.  We will go by minibus to Putney Leisure Centre and will be in the Scuba session from 8pm to 10pm.  We will be back at HQ in Surbiton about 10.45pm.

Skills in Scouts
You learn how to row in the Sea Scouts on the river and how to control and take care of boats and keep them in good condition. In the summer you learn to kayak. When the Winter months begin we do more badgework in scout meetings. By earning badges we produce more skills, that most of would not know we were good at. All together there are seventy activity badges in total. There are also eight challenge badges. As scouts we also do alot of community work for Surbiton. We also somehow learn how to march as a scout group in the annual Surbiton Festival.

Tom, Seagulls Patrol

All about scouts
The reason I came to scouts, was that I was to old for cubs and I thought the idea of rowing on the River Thames was GREAT!

In the hut
When we aren't on the river we play games and do different activities in the scout hut. Sometimes we practice knots, play lighthouseand other varied games.

David

Tom

Freddie

Oliver

World Vision 24-hour Famine 2005

The 24-hour Famine is the UK's biggest one-day youth fundraising event. And Sealion were a part of it.  It was brilliant fun. We washed cars (raising £200), played games, watched a film and finished with a party and an African meal.

For 24 hours on 18th and 19th February, Sealion Scouts and Explorers as well as many other young people throughout the UK went without food and had a fantastic time. Together, by collecting as many sponsors as they could, they raised much needed cash for orphans of HIV/AIDS - a total of £1,804. This is to give them the comfort, protection and education they so urgently need.  £72 allows World Vision to care for one orphan for a whole year.

The last 24-hour Famine raised a massive £500,000 to bring safe clean water and sanitation to some of the world's poorest people.  Soon thousands of young people will be having the time of their lives.

One child is orphaned by HIV/Aids every 14 seconds. But this is not just a statistic. We're talking about real children, in desperate poverty, now trying to survive.  Money from this year's event will be used by World Vision to provide much needed care, food, water, healthcare, and support for children orphaned by Aids - bringing children like Chimwemwe a new, safer and brighter future. Chimwemwe from Malawi is 12. Her parents are dead, victims of HIV/Aids, so she is now her 5-year-old brother's parent. They have virtually nothing. They cannot even afford soap, so are open to disease and infection. Their only food is the mango and pumpkin leaves nearby. Their only comfort in the midst of their trauma and bereavement is the blanket they share at night. The Sea Scouts have been learning about this in recent weeks; with games and activities as part of their ‘Global Challenge’ badge.

Royal Kingston Cross Country Cycling - Cyclocross 2005 - Winners

Congratulations to the cyclists who stormed home to win the overall trophy in this year's Cyclocross.  The tough course across the fields and through the wooded hillsides of Polyapes in Oxshott proved a real challenge, but two second places in the U12 and U14 categories was enough to take the cup.  The seven victorious cyclists are shown with the trophy, last won by Sealion over ten years ago.