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SCOUT UTSomerset Scout Newsletter
March 2011Issue 7
PLUS...
let’s eat
You scoutScoutOut interviews our new
ACC Beavers and features all your
stories from around the county
Find out how you can get underground in Somerset and be inspired by
our editor’s account of his very first time in a cave system on Mendip.
Gibraltar calling
WSJ unit leader Sue Ovenden
visits the rock on WSJ business
this month...
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Our best scout cooks compete for the title of Somerset
champion at the county’s tastiest competition
Have you ever been caving?
Peeking over the peak
Network see the view from the
top of Snowdon in January
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you scout...Fish and chip shops in Yeovil were put through their paces
by cubs in January. The youngsters from Holy Trinity Cubs toured the many fish and chip outlets in the town to find their
favourite by tasting and rating their services.Chips from eight shops were tasted and rated on several criteria
including chip presentation, taste, customer service and overall value for money but, in the blind test, Palmers in Bumford Lane and in Market Place, Yeovil, came out top.
Cub leader Angie Dollard said there is an educational message behind the activity: “It teaches the boys and girls about dealing with money and they always really enjoy it.”
Cracking chips
Youngsters from Mells planted an astonishing 70 trees at the Somerset Earth Sciences Study Centre in January. The cubs and their leaders were at the centre for three hours
planting the native species which had been chosen for their ability to create habitats for birds and small mammals. The 1st Mells Cubs first formed a partnership with the Study Centre in 2009 and the relationship continues to grow stronger.
Planting partnership
Central Cubs in Taunton spent an evening scuba diving and snorkeling at the Quantock Lodge Swimming Pool in January. The
cubs not only had the chance to experience the sensation of breathing underwater for the first time but were taught various safety aspects of diving and even how to talk under water. “The instructors were absolutely brilliant and the Cubs want to go again as they loved it so much,” said CSL Sean Ellett.
District and
County news Send us yours
Learning to speak scuba
Vegetables!
Beaver’s award
www.somersetscouts.org.uk
Beavers from Burnham-On-Sea have been learning all about healthy eating. A group of 20 beavers visited Highbridge’s Asda in February to sample fresh fruit and veg before
completing a healthy eating quiz. The visit was part of the Burnhma-On-Sea Beaver’s fitness and healthy eating badges.
The highest award in beaver scouting was awarded to four young people from Central Beavers in February. ADC Beavers Jacqui Hopkins presented the awards to the Central
Beavers after which the youngsters proudly posed for a photo to show off their certificates. Five beavers were also invested that night in to the group which now has 12 youth members enjoying the adventure that is beaver scouting.
Kayak rescueA stranded scout kayaking group were rescued
in a training exercise for the emergency services in Watchet and Minehead in
January. The coastguard’s search and rescue teams used
members of the 1st Watchet Sea Scout group to simulate for their training. The youngsters acted as the stranded group of kayakers and the adults acted as concerned onlookers. The rescue simulation itself saw nine youngsters bought to safety from Dunster and Warren Bay whilst the scouts pretended to have injuries and broken limbs.
Exercise Sea Hawk was coordinated by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency’s search and rescue teams from Watchet and Minehead, two Minehead lifeboats and police special constables. Four of the 1st Watchet Explorers also took part in a simulated rescue from a land-slip at Warren Bay where they were rescued by the coastguard’s rope rescue team.
you scout...New ACC Beavers
From parent helper to ACC Beavers in five years, Mandy Williams speaks to ScoutOut about her new role at county.
Mandy first joined the Scout Association five years ago after her son joined beavers and she signed up on a parent rota. Since then she has supported the movement, taking the reigns of the Burnham-On-Sea Beaver Pier Colony in 2009 – where she continues as beaver leader.
“I’m really excited to be joining the Assistant County Commissioner team in the 25th year of beaver scouting. I’m really looking forward to going out to other units and seeing what they do so I can share best practise and people’s ideas across the county. I’m also here to act as a support to anyone who needs it,” said Mandy Williams during an interview with Media Development Manager Andy Burland.
Somerset has got lots of special events planned for the 25th anniversary of beaver scouting and Mandy is at the helm organising a year of great events: “Beaver 25 is a fun day we’re running on Sunday 18th September and is open to all beavers in the county. I’m also hoping to put on a beaver challenge and I want to visit local groups and join in with their celebrations too. In my own colony, we are running a birthday sleepover, a disco, a trip to Puxton Park and hopefully making a special appearance at Burnham-On-Sea’s carnival in November.
And the number of beavers in Somerset is growing: “We have just added an additional colony at 1st Burnham which is growing steadily, a colony has just opened in Wembdon and there is one opening at Wedmore shortly. 1st Wellington opened a third Beaver colony recently and I’m looking forward to working with some passionate, experienced and skilled leaders across Somerset. I would like to thank them for their time and efforts which, as we know, are so rewarding.”
The county’s new scout website has comes to life in March. The site has been technically masterminded by Mike Turner of Turnkey IT solutions and Tony Dyson, our resident hill walking
advisor, activity permits manager and computer programmer. The new site gives Somerset Scouts a web presence both for the public hoping to find out more about what we do and existing members of the movement to access the county diary, issues of the county newsletter ScoutOut, our county resources directory and to make contacting a member of our management teams much easier.
The look, feel and content of the site has been carefully designed in line with the Scout Association’s brand and messaging policy so that people looking in from outside the movement see a consistent, professional and youth centred image of scouting in Somerset. Hopefully this image can entice prospective members, both young and adult, to become a part of our great adventure. Visit the site, check it out and let us know what you think by emailing [email protected]
County websitecomes to lifewww.somersetscouts.org.uk
Kitchen at lastThere is now a brand new set of kitchen cupboards in the 3rd
Taunton Bishops Lydeard scout hall including a new sink, set of china, cutlery and even a new floor. The kitchen upgrade
has been a while in the wings but young people and leaders alike are really pleased with the improvements.
“We must be one of the luckiest groups in the district as we have our own mini-buses, a small woodland play area, car park, a camping field with a wood lighting / camp fire area as well as a good sized scout hut,” said GSL Yvonne Back.
The good news for Somerset Scouts is that all this is available for hire. Yvonne is keen to make their fabulous resource accessible to all: “We’re not sure why this is such a well-kept secret in Somerset as we have lots of visitors from out of the county but now is your chance to visit.” If you would like to use this county resource call Yvonne on 01823 432151 or email [email protected]
Celebrating 25 years
We continue our celebration of 25 years of beaver scouting with this new badge. You
can buy yours online now from Scout Shops.
Somerset played an important role in the development of beaver scouting in the years before it became an official section. Read all about it in forthcoming issues of ScoutOut.
Click the badge
Mendip gangshow
www.somersetscouts.org.uk
Members of the North Mendip Scout Group took to the stage in February to perform their Gang Show Concert. The showcase of singing and dancing was performed by
35 beavers, cubs, scouts and young leaders and featured both singing and dancing as well as musical talents. In the finale, Ralph Reader’s iconic gang show tune Riding along on the crest of a wave was sung and a collection of £60 was made to help fund the five members of North Mendip Scout Group who will be attending the World Scout Jamboree this year.
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Kayak rescue
Let’s EatPut five teams of scouts into camp kitchens and
what do you get? A cooking competition of course...
Armed with spatulas, stoves and recipes for soup, youngsters from across the county met at Shepton
Mallet for Somerset’s annual county cooking competition in January. Their challenge: to plan, prepare and serve a three course meal for four people on a budget of just £15 using equipment you would find in an average camp kitchen. Not only that the teams took their ingredients from cool box to fully laid table in just an hour and a half.
The standard in Somerset is high. This is about as far away from chewy pork chops and runny jelly as you can get. Poached pears in rosemary and amaretto from the 1st Shepton kitchen had the room smelling fruity while prawn cocktails, with avocado and whole tiger prawns for decoration, from the 5th Frome Kitchen were certainly catching people’s eyes.
Then the 1st Wellington team pulled out all the stops with their bright pink summer puddings doused in vanilla cream only to have the limelight stolen away by 2nd South Petherton’s remarkably fragrant chicken risotto. Not only that the team had been out into their local fields to pick blackberries back in October with which they made wild fruit trifles.
But the Wessex kitchen was where the action was at. Having started first (start times were staggered at 10 minute intervals to give the judges a chance to get around the room) the Wessex Wonders got busy cooking crab cakes and serving up steamed pudding.
Judges Enid Chapman and Carol Lewis had a tough time sampling all the dishes.
“We’ve never seen it so closely run,” said Carol as she came off the final tasting table. “You have to put your personal tastes aside and judge the food on whether it’s cooked properly,” continued Carol. “All the teams have done very well.”
But it’s not just food the teams are judged on. In fact the judges look at how well the menu has been put together judging its complexity, originality and ability to stay within budget. The teams are observed for their team work and their appearance. Smart teams do better than scruffy ones and then there are the tables. Are they laid correctly? Are they decorated nicely and in line with the theme, which this year was a ‘Help for Heroes Charity Dinner’? The judges have to assess whether the food was on time, nice and warm and whether the dishes on offer complemented each other. Then, at last, the youngsters sit down and wait tentatively while Enid and Carol taste test their dishes.
It’s certainly a challenge but everyone involved has a lot of fun. The scouts were really enjoying their cooking and worked so well as teams to bring these often complex meals to the table. Even the washing up seemed to get done fairly quickly, save for a few bubble-fights around the room.
“We’ve never seen it so closely run”
“We have a lot of fun with our food and
enjoy making it look nice with drizzles!”
Let’s EatPut five teams of scouts into camp kitchens and
what do you get? A cooking competition of course...
Winners of this year’s county cooking competition are the Wessex Wonders and in a close second are 2nd South Petherton. Joint 3rd are 1st Wellington and 1st Shepton and 5th Frome came a respectable 4th place. But all the rankings are commendable as there were only five points between top and bottom place. The Wessex Wonders walked away with 160 points while 4th place, 5th Frome, were hot on the Wonders’ tails with 155 points.
The judges had never seen a competition that was so close and perhaps it will be even closer next year if you are able to enter a team. Groups can run their own cooking competitions which feed into district events which feed into the county event in January. I asked 5th Frome why they wanted to be cooking on a Saturday morning rather than anything else: “We love eating our food after the competition,” they answered. “We have a lot of fun and we like getting creative with our food under pressure and making it look nice with drizzles!”
2011 Winners
The Wessex WondersScott BoultonJustin BabbJack Bond
Samuel Palmer
We walked across several fields, all dressed in serious caving gear, until we reached a stream and
a tree. There was a small stone hut with a sign on it: “Swildon’s Hole. In event of an emergency dial 999. The nearest phone box is at Priddy Green.” This hole is some serious cave, not for the faint-of-heart. We’re on the Mendips somewhere, near Cheddar Gorge but where Priddy Green comes into it I’m not so sure. My
phone is in the car, so is everyone else’s. We’re a group of five and about to climb deep underground through a cave system that has been eroded out of the bedrock by water over thousands of years. We’re excited, intrepid, anxious. For some reason I had expected a grand entrance, possibly even a gift shop and a light stroll through a cavern before needing to get on my knees. Instead we were greeted with what looked like a drain: “Surely not Rob.”
MIND YOUR HEAD
ScoutOut’s intrepid editor spent the day with our county caving team in January to get a taste of Somerset’s underground adventures.
ledge down a waterfall anymore. You have to push yourself at something like this, it’s a challenge but once completed you are left feeling full of achievement.
As we sat 100metres
below Priddy Church and, presumably, Priddy telephone box, I wanted to dive through the sump and see more of the secret world. Sadly, we needed to go. The end of the cave was only half of our journey and I had a party to get to. Climbing where we jumped, jumping where we climbed and going against the flow of the little stream we ascended towards the tree. When we reached the first cavern in the system there was no light coming through the hole anymore, no sunshine to welcome us back but as we pierced the chilled night air, a million stars in a brilliantly clear indigo sky were welcome enough. Not that I’d realised but we’d been secretly adventuring underground for hours.
ScoutOut’s intrepid editor spent the day with our county caving team in January to get a taste of Somerset’s underground adventures.
Rob Franklin, our County Scout Caving Advisor, had asked me out to cave that morning. I’d never been before; in fact I’d avoided it on several occasions but this time I decided to give it a go.
I knew we were in good hands and Rob had hired out all the right kit as well as fortified us with bacon sandwiches before the adventure began.
It was all going swimmingly but there I am looking into a dark hole with a cold stream running into it and it’s, January although the sun is shining which is warming my face. How am I ever going to fit in there? This is silly. Where’s the nearest café? Simon, caving ahead of me, slips into the darkness and from somewhere I found a need to overcome the fear and dive in. So I did.
It’s at this point a great sense of adventure swells over you. A few metres into the secret, underground world is a cavern. It’s small but big enough to sit in comfortably while everyone else comes in through the cave entrance. There’s daylight streaming in through the hole, the last we will see for a few hours. Our lamps flicker into action and we start to cave.
On we pushed through tunnels, over boulders, around stalactites and all ways following the stream. We used every part of our bodies to navigate the passages, sliding down steep crevices barely wide enough to pass and hopping backwards off underground waterfalls into a dark unknown below. This was particularly challenging. If you’ve ever abseiled you’ll know what I’m on about. That horrible feeling at the top of the climb as you lower yourself backwards off the tower is more intense when you can’t see what’s behind you. There is a
stream babbling underneath you and you’ve got very little to hold onto. But once at the bottom though you feel like you’ve conquered the world.
At times the roar of the cascades was deafening, the excitement seared if you lost grip on the slippery rocks and fell into the safety of your climbing harness on a descent. Occasionally we stopped for a snack, snaffled down some flapjack and admired the stalactites clinging to the glistening cave roof. It was quiet here, the stream rambling off somewhere else. Quiet in a cave is like no other quiet and the darkness is quite like nothing as dark as I have ever seen. We’re an hour’s journey from that little hole next to the tree in the field.
Swildon’s Hole is an intermediate’s cave. We had to set up ropes and ladders in places before we abseiled down into the cave system so that we could climb back out on our return. At times the gaps we squeezed through were so tight you had to contort your shoulders and arch your back but all the time trying to keep yourself out of the stream. Eventually we reached the sump; a pool of water with a rope attached to the bank that disappears off into an underwater passage and up the other side. It’s just like a u-bend in a pipe. You can swim through if you hold your breath.
I was enjoying myself. I won’t pretend I was really quite scared at the top. The noise, dark and all the steep climbs had me putting on my brave face from the word go but I wasn’t scared about leaping off a
At times the roar of the cascades
was deafening, the excitement seared
if you lost grip on the slippery
rocks and fell into the safety of your climbing harness
Somerset is riddled with some of the most exciting cave systems
in the British Isles and they make for fantastic scout outings.
Why not discover the county’s underground adventures for yourself?
COUNTY CAVING
Somerset Scout Caving is set to have a revival. The county is investing in new equipment
and we have a growing band of enthusiastic cave leaders. We are in the final stage of put-ting together a number of fun and exciting events to introduce scouts, explorers young and adult leaders to caving.If you are a more experienced caver or have a desire to lead under-ground we would love to hear from you. If you have previously held a cave leader permit and would like
to hold one again then please con-tact me direct and we can arrange to re-validate the permit.For longer and more varied excur-sions we now have the capability within the county to explore some of the caves of Wales, Derbyshire and Yorkshire.We kick off this exciting pro-gramme with the British Caving Associations Artificial Cave at the County Explorer Scout Moot on the weekend of 29th April to 2nd May at Huish Woods. You can register your interest in
county caving either as a leader wishing to take young people caving or an adult hoping to learn new caving skills and become an instructor on our new county website:
Click here to register
interest in county caving.
www.somersetscouts.org.uk/our-resources/caving-sign-up/
visit has forged fantastic links with the scouts in Gibraltar that will be carried forwards to the jamboree this summer.“I’m really glad I went,
very worth doing”, continued Sue. “Scouts in Somerset are benefiting from a large amount of jamboree preparation before their trip because the experience of a World Scout Jamboree can be overwhelming and we want to make sure the participants get as much out of the adventure as they can,” (see ScoutOut September 2010 issue 4).Sue also hopes to visit the rock
again in the autumn to soften the blow of post jamboree blues: “You bond so tightly meeting so many people and having an amazing experience that coming home from a jamboree can be a bit of an anti-climax.”Sue would like to point out that
the Gibraltar trips are a personal expense and not drawn from any WSJ or county funds.
Unit leader Sue Ovenden visited Gibraltar in January to meet the ten scouts that
will be joining Somerset’s Apple unit on their adventure to Sweden in August.She took with her photos and
messages from members of the Apple Unit and brought home messages and photos of the Gibraltarian scouts.The Somerset Unit is organising
itself to accommodate the Gibraltarian Scouts in mixed patrols, rather than having an all-Gibraltar patrol and the Scouts will be given access to a closed Facebook group so the youngsters can get to know each other before they meet in Copenhagen at the end of July. “They were only selected in
December,” said Sue, “so have had very little time to prepare [for the WSJ] and they do very little camping.”The rock of Gibraltar simply
doesn’t have any camping space, is smaller than the Isle of Wight and home to just 29,000 people. There are only 282 scouts on the rock of Gibraltar but it was the 1st territory outside of the UK to form scouts in 1908 and Sue’s
Somerset makes a special effort to meet the ten Gibraltarian scouts joining us at World Scout Jamboree
Unit leader Chris Gomez stands 3rd from left in a black polo shirt. The participants from left to right: Michael, Alex, Jonathan, Shane, Chelsea, James, Laurence and Gary.
Making friends WSJIST
As well as the young people
attending this year’s World
Scout Jamboree, eight adult
leaders will travel from Somerset
with the UK International Service
Team.Their purpose: to help make the
jamboree a reality. The adults are
selected in a similar way to the
younger participants and still pay a
fee to attend the event.
You sign up with the host country
well in advance of the jamboree
itself and while your individual skills
are allocated to different sections of
leadership within the jamboree you
could end up doing anything on site
from cleaning the loo to running an
activity. Tony Dyson has been a Somerset
scout leader for 15 years and found
inspiration to sign up for the 22nd
WSJ when he visited the 21st WSJ
which was held at Highlands Park
near Chelmsford in 2007.
“You get dragged in by the buzz
of young people achieving things,”
said Tony. The first jamboree Tony
ever attended was in Japan in 1971
but the site was hit by a typhoon
and everyone was evacuated. Tony
ended up in an all-girls school where
they sought salvation until danger
had passed.Somerset is also home to the
UK’s eldest member of the IST
contingent: David Rolfe. “I went to
the 2007 Jamboree and thoroughly
enjoyed the experience and, having
been unable to attend any earlier
Jamboree, I wanted to be able to
experience one outside the UK.
Naturally I have skills and abilities
which I believe can help in the
running of the event for the many
thousands of young people who will
be attending and I hope I can help
them enjoy the event in some way,”
said David. Mike Turner and Sharon Parkman
from Weare and District cubs have
also been selected to go. “I’m really
looking forward to supporting the
huge event and making a difference
to young people from all different
countries. We are all going to
have a great time, make new
friends and gain fantastic skills.”
said Sharon. Mike commented:
“We have decided to plan our own
travel route to the Jamboree site
and we are going to be stopping
in Copenhagen for a day. I am a
little concerned about the airline
baggage limits, we will certainly
need to pack light!”
If you would like to support Somerset’s young people in their fundraising for WSJ and at the same time help pay for the Gibral-tarian scouts’ camp costs then you can buy one of these beautiful t-shirts. Please email: [email protected]
Apple unit WSJ t-shirts. All sizes available, £10.
Logo design by mrpineapple.co.uk
AT THIS YEARS
COUNTY JAMBOREE
MERRYFIELD AIRFIELD ILTON
27th - 30th MAYFUN FOR THE WHOLE OF SOMERSET
APPLY ONLINE
click here to
Check out online booking.Applying to County Jamboree has never been easier.
SOMERSET
This year jamboree is different. We’re running
both a competition camp and a troop camp so
anyone with any degree of camping skill
can take part in this weekend of
fantastic activities and fun.
Not only that but sub camp leaders
will be running camping skills
workshops for adults and
young people alike.
WSJIST
As well as the young people
attending this year’s World
Scout Jamboree, eight adult
leaders will travel from Somerset
with the UK International Service
Team.Their purpose: to help make the
jamboree a reality. The adults are
selected in a similar way to the
younger participants and still pay a
fee to attend the event.
You sign up with the host country
well in advance of the jamboree
itself and while your individual skills
are allocated to different sections of
leadership within the jamboree you
could end up doing anything on site
from cleaning the loo to running an
activity. Tony Dyson has been a Somerset
scout leader for 15 years and found
inspiration to sign up for the 22nd
WSJ when he visited the 21st WSJ
which was held at Highlands Park
near Chelmsford in 2007.
“You get dragged in by the buzz
of young people achieving things,”
said Tony. The first jamboree Tony
ever attended was in Japan in 1971
but the site was hit by a typhoon
and everyone was evacuated. Tony
ended up in an all-girls school where
they sought salvation until danger
had passed.Somerset is also home to the
UK’s eldest member of the IST
contingent: David Rolfe. “I went to
the 2007 Jamboree and thoroughly
enjoyed the experience and, having
been unable to attend any earlier
Jamboree, I wanted to be able to
experience one outside the UK.
Naturally I have skills and abilities
which I believe can help in the
running of the event for the many
thousands of young people who will
be attending and I hope I can help
them enjoy the event in some way,”
said David. Mike Turner and Sharon Parkman
from Weare and District cubs have
also been selected to go. “I’m really
looking forward to supporting the
huge event and making a difference
to young people from all different
countries. We are all going to
have a great time, make new
friends and gain fantastic skills.”
said Sharon. Mike commented:
“We have decided to plan our own
travel route to the Jamboree site
and we are going to be stopping
in Copenhagen for a day. I am a
little concerned about the airline
baggage limits, we will certainly
need to pack light!”
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downloadable event application
forms, health forms and kit lists.
Cub Swimming CompetitionStrode Swimming Pool, Street, Somerset, BA16 0AS.
We want your stories please...
“Just don’t let go,” said Tony Dyson to the network scouts as they shimmied along Crib Goch on their
way to the summit of Snowdon. In early February ten network members from both the Taunton and Frome hubs travelled to Wales in order to immerse themselves in some serious mountain scrambling. Led by hill walking advisor Tony Dyson the intrepid team walked the whole of the Snowdon horseshoe taking in Crib Goch, Snowdon itself and finally the summit of Y Lliwedd.
But this wasn’t just hiking. In fact the trip was a scramble up the mountains of north Wales and one that proved to be rather more hairy than the network scouts were first expecting. The first part of the scramble saw Tony leading the scouts off the well beaten tourist path and up the steep rock face of Crib Goch. Once on the top, the team edged their way along the ridge trying very hard not to fall off before descending back onto easier paths for the ascent of Snowdon itself. Once watered and fed at the summit of Snowdon, which was a doddle compared to the white knuckle experience of Crib Goch, the scouts then tackled Y Lliwedd, another peak just south of Snowdon.
This involved more scrabbling up rocks and careful attention to
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SCRAMBLINGUP SNOWDON
the location of the edge before the summit was reached.
At the top the team realised they had lost Bertie, much to the disappointment of everyone. After a slightly panicked hunt for the missing scrambler it transpired he was busy taking photos with his new lens as the clouds had cleared to reveal some extraordinary views.
On the way home, after the days climbing the hikers witnessed a dramatic helicopter rescue from the rock face of Crib Goch and this was discussed in great detail long into the night in a crowded Inn near Betws-y-Coed. The network scouts dined on hearty grub, played outrageously noisy card games and retired to bed contented with their day’s adventures.
Network scouting is for anyone aged 18 – 25 and welcomes new members at any time of the year. In August Somerset’s network scouts are running a summer camp to the Blackwell Adventure Centre.
Somerset’s network scouts
visited Wales to scramble up
the country’s highest peak...
County Mountain Bike CompetitionOpen to all Somerset scouts and explorers. Come and peddle a path around our course.
Beaver Connect 4 CompetitionSwanmead Community School, Ditton Street, Ilminister. £1 a player. 1pm - 4.30pm
County Chess and Draughts CompetitionCubs and scouts welcome.Swanmead Community School, Ditton Street, Ilminister. £1 a player. 1pm - 4.30pm
County Presentation DayCheck the online county diary for the latest info on this event.
Network CampSomerset’s Network will be re-building the Beacon Field’s gateway at Huish Woods this weekend. Anyone aged 18 - 25 can join Network in the county.See our county website for more information:www.somersetscouts.org.uk/network
