Welcome to our group!
scouting since 1994
1st Blackwater Valley is a traditional Scout Group serving the Ash Vale and Mytchett area since 1994, now over 25 years old (more than a quarter of a century!). We meet at Carrington Lane Recreation ground. You can find us on What3Words(wasp.poppy.stops), or Google Maps.
Today we have leaders who were Beavers in our group (see Leaders) and over that twenty-five years we have acquired a Scout Hut in 2003 which we are now looking to re-new (see Our Scout Hut).
We are proud owners of a minibus named “Long John Silver”, a large red coach named “Mildred” and trek cart (see Vehicles), all of which allows our sections to decide whether they want to do something, rather than ask, “can we?”
News
Quiz Night Success!
A big thank you to all of those who attended on Saturday and made it such an enjoyable event. A special thanks to Darren (our Cub Master) for organizing the quiz on Saturday and also to Mike (Trustee) who helped on the catering front. When all the money is in we will have made a […]
Quiz Night Saturday 9th March 2024
Quiz Night Saturday 9th March – 19:30 for a 20:00 start. Ash Football Club, Shawfield Rd, Ash, Aldershot GU12 6RB We are excited to announce the return of our in person quiz night! Tickets are £8.50 per person and include a ploughman’s supper. Teams of up to a maximum of 8 but there is no […]
World Federation of Independent Scouts (WFIS)
A small selection of our leaders paid for themselves to attend the WFIS general assembly because of our group currently lacking the funds to cover the costs. They flew to Portugal to accept our invitation to become full members after successfully completing our probationary period. Our group now joins over 150 affiliated groups in 65 […]
We need your help!
EVERYONE PLEASE READ! Whether you are a past or present member, we desperately need your help. As many of you are aware, we need a new scout hut. Our current hut was a temporary building with an end of life around the late 90s. We have kept it serviceable until now, but we are losing […]
Merry Christmas & Happy New Year
We wish everyone in our scouting family a merry Christmas and a happy new year! Please enjoy the holidays and we can’t wait to see you again on our return, which will be 10th January 2024.
Christmas Fayre!
Our Christmas fayre was a great success and we thank all those who helped and attended. We would also like to thank our long running partner, Mytchett Centre, for allowing us to host it in their hall.
Christmas Fayre 25th November 2023
Save the date! Our Christmas fayre will be returning to the Mytchett centre on the 25th November from 10am – 12pm. There will be lots of games to play, sweets to be won and Santa to see! We look forward to seeing everyone and their family. All our welcome, so no need to be a […]
Crinacott Farm – Summer Camp 2023
After last year’s wonderful camp locally in East Horsley, this year we headed to a lovely farm in Holsworthy, North Devon. Long-time friends of the group, Mike and Linda at Crinacott Farm, have hosted many memorable summer camps for us over the years and we are very excited to had been invited again. In a […]
Our Stall at Ash Fete 2023
I would like to say an enormous thank you to all those helping at our stall today at Ash Fete. We had some great activity photos, section information and, of course, some fun games to play! It was great to see all those visitors. If you visited our stall and want to enquire about our […]
Skip Johnson Memorial Hike
On the 1st April 2023 was the inaugural Skip Johnson Memorial Hike, where teams across counties competed in a blind route hike in the fastest time. Fortunately, our leaders bought it home for our group. Well done! Neil Johnson kindly visited to present the shield in person. Skip Johnson was his father and played a […]
Section Updates
Seniors: Cooking Challenge Evening
This week our Seniors were surprised with a Ready Steady Cook style challenge where they were presented with a bunch of ingredients and told they have to come up with a main meal. They absolutely aced the challenge and concocted a fantastic pasta dish, maybe we have some new camp cooks?
Scouts: Camp Fire Cooking
After the recent success of the Scout’s fire building, this week they were challenged to create a meal which could be cooked entirely on one green stick. Their choice: a form of sausage roll made from a sausage and bread twist dough. . .interesting. . .
Beavers: Mother’s Day
We couldn’t post this on the night as our Beavers were undertaking a secret mission to make Mother’s Day cards. But now the day has past, here is a behind the scenes of the clever colour mixing they achieved to get their designs.
Scouts: Post-Hike Fire
After an exhausting twelve mile hike at the weekend around Box Hill, the Scouts took it easy and enjoyed making a fire.
Beavers: Pancakes and Investitures
What a busy night! After our Beavers made some fantastic pancakes, we invested four new Beavers into the Colony.
Beavers: Colour Mixing
This week our Beavers were busy exploring again, but not outside this time! Instead, they were in the hut learning all about mixing colours and doing some fascinating experiments to see what colours they could make.
Seniors: Ice Skating
The lead up to Christmas always seems to be a time of illness, never the less, the few Seniors we had left enjoyed an evening on the ice!
Scouts: Radiation
Tonight the Scouts learnt all about radiation from one of our leaders, who is a soil & rock scientist by day. They learnt all about the good and bad types and measuring some Uranium Ore with a scintillator. It was great to fully appreciate that while the bad type seems to make the news so […]
Rovers: Weekend Camp
Last weekend our Rovers went on a two day camp in East Horsley. It was rather soggy but a great time was had by all. This was trial for a similar camp which will be planned by our Seniors next year.
Scouts: E1 Hike
Last week, our Scout planned an evening hike of 5km around our local army training ground known as E1. All they had was a map, route card, and compass. The parents were pleased to find all Scouts had found their way back to the pickup point by the end of the evening! Well done to […]
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