Venue: Harwell Primary School

12 scouts and 4 leaders are running a back to basics camp this weekend. They will be cooking on camp fires and making camp gadgets. As well as going on the 3g swing and the high ropes course!

Camps at Youlbury are always fun, and this one was no exception! Led by some of our young leaders, it was a weekend full of activities, games and challenges.
It started right from the first, night, where we cooked our first of many meals over a campfire. On the second day, the Ariel challenge had to be the highlight. It started by climbing up and tall climbing wall. You then had to make your way around an obstacle course, suspended in mid air. All this together created an adrenaline rush like no other! We also did a blind trail, where you had to find your way round a course blindfolded, through many bogs, ditches and holly bushes!
On the final evening we rounded things off with a huge campfire, with all the usual , songs, marshmallows and hot dogs! Altogether everyone involved had a great time that weekend and will remember all of it for a very long time.
Thanks must go especially to the leaders who organised the camp and who made the weekend so much fun.
Andrew (APL)

This weekend some of the Explorers from 1st Harwell ESU at marshalling at the Wallingford Dog Training Club Open Agility Show.

Harwell School Field

Our Annual Firework Display is happening on Friday 6th November 2009 at Harwell School.. The display will begin at 7:30pm, but the site is open from 7:00pm with a Bar and BBQ

Entrance by Donation

Members of 1st Harwell Explorer Scout Unit travelled to The Netherlands where they went to the Dutch National Jamboree near Eindhoven and then spent 4 days cycling across the country.

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Almost 130 members and their families from 1st Harwell (St Matthews) Scout Group went to Brownsea Island on Saturday 11th August.

This day trip was part of the 10 day camp which saw members from all the five sections from 1st Harwell.

The Camp was at Buddens Farm campsite, near Wareham in Dorset.

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7 members of 1st Harwell Explorer Unit decided to do something different for the Expedition element of their Duke of Edinburgh award.

They cycled from Harwell Village, Oxfordshire all the way down to the Group Scout Camp at Buddens Farm near Wareham, Dorset.

On Wednesday 1st August 2007, at the same time as Scouts all over the world renewed their promise to mark the start of the second centenary of Scouting, 1st Harwell Scout Group attended a special ceremony and breakfast at St Matthew’s Church in Harwell Village.