Northamptonshire Scouts

I have been a member of the Scout Association since the age of seven,
from Cub Scout through to Troop Leader.
I was with 34th Northampton, Kingsthorpe Cubs & Scouts,
Abington Vale Venture Scout Unit
and then a leader with Whitehill's and then Moulton Scout troops.

During my time as with the Scouts I achieved both my Chief Scout Award and Queen's Scout Award, being presented with my Queens Scout Award in November 1981. As a result of gaining this award I went to a reception at Windsor castle hosted by HM The Queen.

From 1987 to 1994, I was Northamptonshire Scouts County Mountain Activities Adviser. During This time I organised and ran a County expedition to Arran for a week in 1991, and a county expedition to California for Three weeks in 1993, as well as numerous local climbing wall events.
During this period, I was in overall charge of training & assessing other leaders in Northamptonshire Scout County in mountain walking and rock climbing. As part of this responsibility I ran "mountain Experience" week ends in Snowdonia from the Wellingborough Mountaineering club hut.

climbing in Arran with Northamptonshire scouts
the above picture was taken and was taken
on Sou'wester Slabs
Cir Mhor
during
the county expedition to Arran
May 1991

for more info on the Scout Association visit
ScoutBase UK - the official website of the Scout Association

	picture taken at international Scout camp in Towcester, Northamptonshire for more pictures of Scouts climbing, both indoor and outdoor, click here
picture taken at Danes Camp Leisure center indoor climbing wall

from 1987 to 1994,
I was the mountain activities advisers
for Northamptonshire scout county

from 1994 to present, I work with the
Castle Ashby scout district,
as district mountain activities adviser

this picture was taken
during Castle Asby Scouts & Venture Scouts
training week in Glencoe
having just finished the Aonach Eagach ridge.
the Aonach Eagach ridge, Glencoe

the summit of Tryfan

whilst the picture left was taken
on the summit of Tryfan.

this was during an open weekend
of mountain experience
for county leaders and venture scouts.

Tryfan

sponsored rock climb in the Peaks to raise money for
Hartwell Scouts, Northamptonshire,
further information online soon

the Scouts are being sponsored for
"how many meters can be climbed in a set time"

Hartwell scouts on Birmingham climbing wall

a scout from
Hartwell troop
on
Birmingham Climbing Wall

report & pictures will be available online
soon after the challenge