Pioneer scouts have just been to camp at Birchmere.

We spent a glorious 5 days in the Surrey sunshine where the Scouts have built shelters, made bird feeders, been swimming and played laser tag among many other activities.
The scouts have cooked most of their meals and have shown excellent teamwork.
Well done Pioneers, excellent work!

Huge shout out to the amazing Pioneer leaders for putting on such an exciting camp!

On Sunday 22nd September 1st Rustington Forest Beaver Scouts went to Bognor War Memorial Hospital to assist the Friends of the Hospital with some gardening.

The Beavers started by de-weeding the flower beds before they planted some new daffodil bulbs. They also assisted in sweeping the paths as well as washing the benches.

The Beavers especially enjoyed watering the plants with the water pistols before we had to leave for our journey home.

All Beavers who attended gained their Community Impact Stage 1 badge as well as the Earth Tribe badge which is newly released.

All Beavers showed amazing teamwork and skills in this event, a great support to our local community and the beavers had fun too!

For their 2024 Summer Camp the 1st Rustington Frontier Scouts went to Pinsent Scout Campsite in Winchester. 16 Scouts attended the camp, pitching their own tents and dining shelters and learning how to cook different meals to include Chicken Pesto Rice and Sticky Ginger Pork.

Whilst away the scouts completed a 10k hike, played wide games and had a number of camp fires to include a camp fire quiz. The Scouts spent the day at Paultons Park, went to Splashdown Flume Park, played Battle Zone Laser Warriors and went on the dry ski slope donuts.

All the Scouts had a great time and are looking forward to their next camp!

In August our Explorers started their summer camp in Ainsa, Spain! 2 weeks jam packed with fun, sun and good food!

We also had our groups out doing their hikes for both the Duke of Edinburgh award and the scouting awards.

A huge shout out to our amazing leaders for organising and running this camp!

As always head out to our @1strustingtonesu Instagram page for updates of what the Explorers get up too!

Go Beavers 24!!

30 very excited beavers went to Blacklands Farm for GoBeavers! Undertaking four different zones: fun, explore, create and do, and adventure.

Activities included cave bus, tunnels, low ropes, night line, bubble fun, archery, bouldering, and much more.

An amazing day out for our Beavers and a huge thank you to our leaders for taking them!

See more about Beavers here

Our Pioneers visited Cobnor Activity Centre during May half term for their summer camp. The Scouts had an action packed week where they went sailing, raft building, orienteering and a sunrise hike. They also took part in the Scout Olympics where they undertook some more unusual activities including hobby horse showjumping, volleyball and bottle rockets. The Scouts also cooked all of their meals and competed in a patrol competition. A fantastic week had by all!

Big thanks to our amazing leaders for giving up their time and taking the pioneers away on this amazing trip

See more about Scouts here

Thank you to everyone that come and supported us in the village during our street collection. Without these vital fundraising opportunities we wouldn’t be able to provide what we do to our young people.

We’re always looking at new ways of raising funds, so please check out our fundraising page if you’d like to make a donation.

Join us this Saturday (9th December) for our Christmas Fayre in aid of our Explorer Scouts who are heading to the Spanish Pyrenees next summer.

Along with our yummy cake sale (with teas and coffees), raffle, and Santa’s Grotto, we also have a special guest appearance from Elsa and Spiderman!!

You can see updates from our Explorers on their social media pages
Facebook
Instagram

We’re live for Comedy Night 3

Grab your tickets now for another fantastic and hilarious night out in Rustington, all in aid of your local Scout Group
You never know, Jerry may be allowed to sit in the front row again 😆 (inside joke for those who were at the last one 😉)

Well stocked, cashless bar
All proceeds go to charity

Tickets can be purchased here.

Last night we hosted our annual group AGM, we had a lot to celebrate a year of being the District Duty Group, successful fundraising events including our Comedy Night and not forgetting our outstanding performance for St George’s Day!

We had a few special thanks to shout out, to our amazing “dragon making’ ladies – Marion Mills and Barbara Blake – you made us the most amazing dragon that’ll go down in District history! We appreciate all your efforts in supporting us!

We said goodbye to 2 of our amazing Cub Leaders Graham and Erica Mills – with over 60 years service between them, we couldn’t be more grateful for everything you’ve done for the Group over this time! You’ll be missed by all – and as we always say you are welcome back anytime!

Finally we also said goodbye to our Explorer Leader & Deputy GSL Jon Harris who has recently moved away – we wish you the best of luck in your new adventure and we appreciate all the work you are still doing behind the scenes!

An amazing year all round thank you to all!

Our AGM reports are available here

WHAT A NIGHT!

Thank you so much to all of you who attended our comedy night and supported us! We are forever grateful for the amazing community we have around us, we wouldn’t be here without you!

Also a huge thank you to our amazing comedy company Rangatainment Comedy for providing us with some fantastic comedians so we don’t have to try and be the funny ones

Finally a huge shout out to the leaders and committee members who helped with the set up and bar runnings!

Till next time…..

St Georges Day 2023

We were so lucky with the weather in Arundel for the St Georges Day parade from the castle up to the cathedral.
This year 1st Rustington were the Duty Group, so it was up to us to run the show in the cathedral, so here’s a little insight into what we got up to.
An absolutely fantastic effort from some of our leadership and helpers to put on such a show and for us to have our very own St George vs the dragon battle.

We’re also very proud of the very smart turnout of all our young people. You really did us proud! 🙂

After the success of the first one, we have planned another comedy night for 29th April.

Grab your tickets now to save missing out. As a reminder of what’s on offer:
5 professional acts
Well stocked, cashless bar
All proceeds go to charity

Tickets can be purchased here.

A couple of our wonderful volunteers were down the hall today for a bit of DIY, and getting our ‘honours boards’ back on the wall.

Our original ‘Honours Board’ for our King and Queens Scout Award holders, almost perfectly timed for retirement after the passing of the Queen.

Our new ‘King’s Scout Award’ board, now in prime place ready to start loading with names in the not too distant future.

The ‘Duke of Edinburgh’s Gold Award’ board sitting alongside the KSA so they can move forward together.

These boards are there to give the young people something to aim for, striving to get their name up on the wall after their fantastic achievements.

And finally, our latest addition, and one that we’re really proud of, the ‘Friends of the Group’.

We wouldn’t be where we are today without our hard working volunteers, some of whom only work in the background, but are supporting us every step of the way. THANK YOU

What a fantastic turnout today for Remembrance Parade, and everyone looking so smart! 🙂

It’s not often that every Section gets together, but it really does make us proud at events like this 🙂

124 wonderfully behaved young people and 30 of our fantastic leadership team, plus members of the committee helping with stewarding 😀

Wow, what a night we had!
Thank you to everyone that came out and supported us this evening 🙂
We hope you had a fantastic evening! It certainly sounded like it with the non-stop laughter! 😀

Big thanks to Rangatainment Comedy, Laura Lexx, Paddy Young, Jack Abela, Andrew White and Erik Pohl

Grab your tickets now to our latest fundraising event which is sure to have you in stitches!

This is the first of it’s kind for us, and we’re sure it’s going to be a blast!

Come along, have a laugh and a drink and support our Group.

Tickets can be purchased here.

Good luck to our Explorers who are off to the Aosta region of Italy this weekend for their 2 week summer camp.
20 Explorers and 6 leaders (with some additional volunteer drivers). It’s going to be a fantastic trip!
Be sure to follow their journey on the 1st Rustington ESU page (Facebook and Instagram).

Our Frontier Scouts headed off on summer camp today, and started it the best way possible during a heatwave by visiting an aqua park.

Our Cubs have now started their joint summer camp, and each year it’s run with a secret theme, known only by some of the Leaders.

This year it was revealed to be the book series written by David Walliams.

Unfortunately David was unable to attend to open the camp, but he did send through a lovely message, and personalised, signed photos for each of our Cubs in attendance.