Celebrating the end of another Scouting Year!
It’s the Group meeting that everyone looks forward to all year, and a long-standing tradition for 1st 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.)
This year it was Robyn’s turn to organise the activities for the evening, and she brought along some fantastic ideas: flour art, water pistol dualling, water balloon throwing & catching, catapulting jelly and finally, everyone’s favourite, eating dangling doughnuts (look, no hands!).
The photos tell you everything you need to know.
The evening’s finale was a full-on, all-member water fight, as you’ll see from the photos.
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 rural Scout Group go from strength to strength.
So it’s time to wish everyone a very happy summer holiday. Enjoy the time off school and Scouting (except those heading to Dorset next week… we hope you all have a fantastic time and we’ve got our fingers crossed that the weather improves for you), and we’ll see you all, raring to go, in September 😊

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