1st Crawley Scout Group Blog

Change your life!

All of the amazing opportunities and activities that we provide to our young people happen because of the efforts our leaders. They are all unpaid volunteers, who also have jobs and families. They are...

Brecon Beacons 2025

1st Crawley Scouts took part in another memorable expedition to the Brecon Beacons this half term. We stayed at the cozy Tyle Morgrug bunkhouse. Our first challenge was testing out all our wet weather...

Paper Planes

1st Crawley Beavers had great fun creating and testing out paper planes for their Air Activities badge this week. #SkillsForLife

Going for Gold!

Yesterday saw members of 1st Crawley come together with other Scout members for an afternoon of celebration and recognition by West Sussex Scouts. Our young people were recognised for achieving their Gold Chief Scout...

50 Hikes Badge

1st Crawley are proud to be a ‘hiking group’, with regular monthly hikes around Sussex and Surrey and annual expeditions to the mountains of North and South Wales. Today while hiking out in the...

Knots and Conkers

1st Crawley Cubs showed great progress with their knots this week. They used their new skills to tie conker strings and then play conkers.

Broadstone Warren Scout Camp

3rd to 5th May 2024 We had 10 Scouts and 5 Cubs with us for the whole weekend plus one Cub visiting us for the daytime. On Friday evening, everyone arrived in good time...

Brecon Beacons 2023

The Autumn half term saw the return of our annual Brecon Beacons (or should that be Bannau Brycheiniog) long weekend expedition. On Sunday we headed out onto the hills, hoping to bag a trio...

Downsman 2023

Congratulations to a new 1st Crawley team on completing their first Downsman hike! The 11-mile Open Class hike took our team from Plumpton College to Itford under unseasonably warm, blue skies. Taking turns at...

Macmillan Coffee Morning

UPDATE: A very successful day today over £380.00 for Macmillan from the coffee morning and over £175.00 for 1st Crawley Scouts from our bric-a-brac stall. Thank you to everyone who helped out and thank...

Sitting around a camp fire at night

Family Camp 2023

Phew, what a scorcher! On the second weekend of September we held our annual Family Camp – our first since the pandemic. Perfectly timed for the hottest day of the year, there were plenty...