Curry and a Quiz? Perfect combination!

1^st Taxal Scout Group are hosting a

                                              

                           

Friday 10^th March, 7.30pm

At the Scout Hut, New Road, Whaley Bridge

Quizmaster

High Peak Radio Breakfast Show DJ

Barry Jarvis

Tickets £10 per person

Including Curry, Rice & Naan Supper

Tickets available from Bywater Gas in Chapel-en-le-Frith

or contact Tracey on 07966 072159

Tables of 6 (4 minimum)

Prizes  ̴  Cash Bar  ̴  Raffle

Fundraising for Cultural Exchange Trip to Norway, July 2017

Kindly supported by Aldi Store in Chapel, The Co-op, Tesco and 
Wild's Butchers in Whaley Bridge and High Peak Radio.

Cub Scout (Balsa Wood) Race Night

Martin with our winners

Taxal Cubs held their heats of the District Balsa Wood racing tonight and what an exciting night of entertainment it was. Martin Berriman, from 1st Chinley, has been organising the event for months and he turned up on the night with his purpose build track with timing gates to officiate.

Each of the Cubs got to race their home-made cars 3 times against other competitors. The 6 fastest then moved forward to the semi-final with the top 3 qualifying for a spot in the District finals.

There were many cheers, and a few tears, but eventually we had our three champions. There were no losers tonight though, everyone had fantastic fun.

Many, many thanks to Martin. See you at the finals in a few weeks!

Coffee Morning Success

Many thanks to everyone who came to our coffee morning on Saturday, the support we received was really fantastic and we have had one of our most successful mornings ever. At the final count we made £311.64 profit.

Congratulations to one of our Cub Scouts, Ben Brown, who won the 'Rucksack' cake in the raffle.

Hope Valley Mountain Bike Challenge 2016

This coming Saturday Cub Scout Leader, Steve Garratt, will be taking part in the Hope Valley Mountain Bike Challenge. The event is an annual off-road technical ride which takes in some of the area’s most iconic trails and locations such as ‘The Beast’, Jaggers Clough, Edale, Jacobs Ladder, Hayfield, Rushup Edge, Hollins Cross and Mam Tor. 

The route is 28 miles with nearly 5,000 feet of climbing involved and will likely take over 5 hours to complete.

Steve is raising money for 1st Taxal Scouts trip to Norway next Summer, any donations will be most gratefully received, either personally or via their new fundraising page*:

https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/1stTaxalToNorway

Keep an eye on the new section of the website for more Norway 2017 fundraising activities!

*online donations are subject to a 5% JustGiving admin fee

1st Taxal Tweets!

1st Taxal Scouts are now officially on twitter. If you want to keep in touch with our latest news and what we have been up to then please give us a follow!

You can find us @TaxalScouts or via the new contacts menu drop down list in the top right of our webpage.

Bloodhound SSC

1st Taxal were honoured to be invited by Manchester Airport to meet some of the Bloodhound Supersonic car team last night. The Cubs and Beavers learnt some amazing facts, saw some incredible speedy driving, held a meteorite and got to see how a jet engine works.

The whole point is to get young children inspired to work in science, and I certainly think a few of our kids were thrilled.

We can't wait to see whether they manage to break the record and hope we get invited back next year! Thanks again!

1st Taxal Scout Group Camp

A nice warming fire

This weekend was the bi-annual group camp and this year we returned to the lovely site at Spitewinter. The theme of the weekend was 'survival' and the weather on Saturday morning lived up to the theme! Fortunately the weather did not stop any of our activities, we learnt some important knots and shelter building, we learnt how to build and start a fire and we cooked our evening meal in the embers of the fire. On Saturday night we had a campfire with some traditional songs and entertainment by each of the sections. 

On Sunday we packed up the camp and then played several wide games, before the closing ceremony and home time. 

Everyone seemed to have a great time and went home happy - if a little muddy!

Many thanks go to all of the volunteers who helped before, during and after the camp. It wouldn't be possible to do so much without them.

Here are just a few photos of the fun!

The group campfire

Snake!

Bonkers Beavers

Winner winner Chicken dinner

Playing on the field