There are two Scout troops in Marple, with Kinder (twitter) meeting at the Scout Hut on Tuesdays, and Cobden (twitter) on Thursdays, from 19.30 – 21.00.
There is currently a waiting list for both – sign up via the join form to be added to it.
Whilst both troops meet up separately, there are many activities that they do together – with the annual Easter Camp and Summer Camps a particular highlight, as well as Gang Show, joint walking days (and nights) and other ad hoc activities.
They also face off against each other in the Ian Corbishley Battle of Marple (twitter), when they compete at various challenges across a whole weekend before having a final assault course to decide which troop has bragging rights for the next year!
“They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them.” For the Fallen, Laurence Binyon 1914 Once again Rememberance service saw the scouts and guides of Marple gathering around The […]
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Cobden having a fun night of tin can cooking. It might have taken practically the whole night to cook half a piece of bacon up to just-about-edible (certainly not crispy!), but its probably worth it! 🙂
It’s STILL raining! 🙁 With all the holiday-makers in town, unfortunately the bowling alley was fully booked until the evening, so we had to revert to Plan C! We split them into three groups and set about making our dinner – homemade burgers followed by muffins and cookies. As you can imagine, the kitchen will
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It’s a rainy start to our last day, which should make packing up more interesting…! Sadly the rain has put paid to our plans of going up on the Hi Flyer – a massive tethered hot air balloon that goes 300m into the air – as it’s at risk of being struck by lightning?! Instead
