Messy Night 2023

It’s the Group meeting that everyone looks forward to all year, and a long-standing tradition for 1^st Caythorpe and Duke’s Covert Scout Group…. Messy Night!

We’d love to say that Messy Night is all about learning #skillsforlife, enhancing our teamwork abilities and doing great work for the local community. But it’s not! It’s about letting off steam at the end of the school year, racing around Duke’s Covert Campsite, having a great time, and getting very, very wet!

(All risk assessed, of course.)

Akela can be thanked (blamed) for organising this year’s activities: shaving a balloon (don’t ask!), creating artwork with flour, water pistol duelling, drawing on backs with flour paste (sorry parents!) and picking a toy out of a gunky washing-up bowl… with your toes! The photos tell you everything you need to know.

The evening’s finale was a full-on, all-member water fight, and as you’ll see from the photos, everyone got involved with certain leaders taking great delight in fully participating.

The end of the evening came around far too quickly, at which point the very soggy Beavers, Cubs and Scouts were passed back to their parents to be transported home (“Don’t touch the car seats!”) and, no doubt, dunked in the bath.

Thanks to all our young members for turning up week in, week out, with big smiles, bigger ambitions and showing a great attitude to Scouting, and thanks to all our volunteers and supporters, both at the meetings and behind the scenes, for helping our small rural Scout Group go from strength to strength as we recruit more new members and continue to grow.

So it’s time to wish everyone a very happy summer holiday. Enjoy the time off school and Scouting (except those heading to Forest Fest next week… we hope you all have a fantastic time and we’ve got our fingers crossed that the weather forecasters have all got it very wrong), and we’ll see you all, raring to go, in September 😊