Wigan District News

  The brand new District Geocaching competition was attended by five teams from 5th Wigan, 1st Ashton, 3rd Hindley and 16th Wigan. Geocaching is an event were using a GPS, map and a set of clues you must find hidden caches. The caches are each worth different numbers of points and there will be 5 hours to find as many as possible. The event will be held between the pike and castle area of Rivington. The competition consisited of 30 specially laid caches throughout Rivington starting ...  Read More

  St George's Day Parade was held on Sunday 17th April, a week earlier than usual, (due to Easter Sunday being on April 24th.) It was a glorious day, and the Scout section was well represented having 14 out of the 17 groups from Wigan attending. There was also a good representation from the Guide Section, who join in our Parade each year. Although numbers seemed down from last year, this was probably due to the fact that it was held during the school holiday period, and we were told t...  Read More

Here is the April copy of the County news letter THE BUZZ  Read More

Many thanks to all those who attended a great night on Saturday. We are already looking at what to do for next years event. If you have any comments or feed back from the night please let us know. Also keep your eye out for pictures of the night.  Read More

The 2011 Aqua Madness competition was held at Hindley baths on Saturday 19th Feb. The event is for members of the Scout and Explorer Scout sections from around Wigan. Some of the events were: Paddling inflatable boats from one end to the other placing a ball in a bucket suspended on a rope above the water at each pass Finding a number of balls of the same colour ad getting them back to shore Ferries - a tag team event moving all the team members from one end of the pool...  Read More

Are you Prpared for the Future? Scouting has a vision towards 2018 how can help make this vision come ture? Find out more at ENERGISE on 26th March at the District HQ SCOUTING'S VISION TOWARDS 2018 Scouting in 2018 will: Make a positive impact in our communities Prepare young people to be active citizens Embrace and contribute to social change Scouting in 2018 will be: Shaped by young people in partnership with adults Enjoyed by more young people and mor...  Read More

On Saturday 5th February 2011 six members of the District attended the North West GSL/DC Support Day.  Zoe's review of the day is below. In 2002 Scouting started on a programme of change to bring it into the 21st century and encourage even more young people to take part.  This will reach its final stages in 2012 and at the GSL conference we were given the opportunity to contribute towards the next chapter in our history, Vision 2018.  The day began with an ove...  Read More

This years First Aid Competition took place on Sunday 30th Jan. Three teams from the district entered the afternoon event which consisted of scenarios spread around the District HQ for the Scout teams to deal with. The event organiser, Steve Gray, had arranged for professional first aid trainer Ed Ellis of Trainging2All to attend. Ed brought with him a Resusci Anne, ran one of the bases through the day and gve a quick tips final half hour after the competition. Ed offers free ...  Read More

  Did you know that eleven out of the twelve men who have walked on the Moon were Scouts!   On the all time book best seller list, Scouting For boys is at number 4! Behind the Bible, The Koran and Chairman Mao Little Red Book!   There are more than 28 million Scouts, young people and adults, male and female, in 160 countries and territories. Some 300 million people have been Scouts, including prominent people in every field   ...  Read More

The Young Leaders' Scheme is just one of the exciting programme elements in the Explorer Scout section. All leaders in the Beaver Scout, Cub Scout and Scout Section who are between the ages of 14 and 18 must be members of a Young Leaders Unit. They are Explorer Scouts who choose to devote a large proportion of their time in Scouting to service in another section. The Young Leaders' Scheme helps Explorer Scouts to   develop and grow as individuals. It allows them to make ...  Read More

      Join-in-Jamboree is a suite of programme resources focusing on the Global Programme Zone and the International Self-Development Area. It aims to bring the flavour of the Jamboree to your weekly programme without having to attend the event itself.  Five physical resources have been produced and are due to be distributed alongside sectional supplements in the October/November 2010 edition of Scouting magazine. There is one per section. So, for ex...  Read More

Wigan District Camp Bibby's Farm Scout Campsite 11th - 13th June 2010 The District Camp in the heat of a hot weekend in June and what a weekend it was! There were over 200 members of the District camping and with the Beavers visiting for the day on the Saturday there was over 300 members of the District present all having a lot of fun. The Day started with the District Commissioner cooking 16th Wigan's breakfast. All of the cubs Scouts and Leaders at 16th Wigan managed to surv...  Read More