Ollerton Guides and Rangers

28/05/2026

Ollerton Guides and their Leaders have had a fantastic few days away on camp!
The Guides have challenged themselves, learnt new skills and laughed and sung their way through camp!
Crate stacking, archery, whittling, building fires, waterproofing their own matches, making turtles, making treasure maps, solving a mystery in camp after the Pirates had locked up the lunches and building waterproof shelters to survive pirate attacks and thunderstorms all whilst shipwrecked!

As leaders it has been so lovely to watch our most experienced guides take the lead and teach their skills to the first time campers. It has been the best feeling watching their skills and confidence grow and seeing the next generation of leaders in the making!

25/05/2026

Ollerton Guides had a fantastic first day on camp yesterday, with frisbee golf, pirate escape rooms and camp gadgets, practicing their knots and lashing skills!
We woke up to a hearrrty breakfast of pancakes ready to build shelters on our island after been shipwrecked and prepared to fend off pirate attacks 🏴‍☠️ 🏝️
Looking forward to compass and map skills and an archery session later today! 🏹

23/05/2026

Ollerton Brownies, Guides and Rangers have had a fantastic first half term in their new meeting space at St Joseph’s Hall and have been made to feel incredibly welcome ❤️ We took part in the Grand Re-opening and celebrated campfire songs in true Guiding style!

Guides and Rangers finished the half term with a bang this week 💥

The Guides celebrated world bee day, with a brilliant talk from a local beekeeper where they got to learn all about bees, hives, honeycomb and beekeeping! Of course this culminated in tasting different types of honey including one from Ukraine where one of our Guides is from! 🇺🇦 🐝 🍯

The Rangers started a new challenge badge; warming up with some entertaining team games, creating a photo style town trail, testing their memory with a challenging round of Kim’s Game, and very successfully putting up a tent blindfolded with only two Rangers able to see but not touch and give the other Rangers instructions! 📸 🗺️ ⛺️

02/05/2026

Ollerton Guides and Rangers would like to say a massive thank you to everyone who has supported their fundraising efforts so far!
The unit was in desperate need of new camping kit as ours was unfit for use and in short supply!
We have purchased new tents, benches, tables, cooking equipment, water carriers and camp trolleys so far!
However there is a little more on our list still.
As part of our fundraising, we have been running a “Guess where the horse has pooed” game over the last 12 months and we are getting ready to draw a winner at the end of May - the prize is £100! If you fancy a go at guessing where the horse has pooed, it’s £1 a go, there are still plenty of squares available!
To have a go, please comment below and one of our fab leaders will be in touch to take payment and add your guess to the field!
Thank you to everyone who has played so far!

24/04/2026

Not long to go! ⛺️

We’re into double digits! Just 99 days to go until we welcome thousands of you to the Showground for the Adventure of a Lifetime!

To celebrate, we’ve pulled together 99 of our favourite Poacher facts for you… https://poacher.org.uk/updates/99-days-to-go-to-poacher-2026-here-is-99-facts-about-poacher/

23/04/2026

On Wednesday 22nd April, Ollerton Brownies, Guides and Rangers celebrated Earth Day, by completing a litter pick along the pathways behind Ollerton Tesco. They collected a whopping 13 bags of rubbish in just 3.5 hours! There were some larger items also collected that didn’t fit into bags!

The Guides & Rangers enjoyed a round of chips on completion!

As one of the Leaders is also part of the Green Champions Scheme with Newark and Sherwood District Council, collection was arranged on completion of the litter pick last night and has been collected this morning!
If you’re interested in becoming a green champion there is a link in the comments to more information on how to signup and support your community!

20/04/2026

Guides and Rangers had a fantastic start to their summer term last week! Wide games, and a campfire, with chocolate orange campfire cakes and songs! Check out a snippet of one of the Units favourite songs in the comments!

06/04/2026

We hope everyone has had a lovely Easter Weekend.
Guides and Rangers had an Easter themed week to finish the term - with Easter themed escape rooms and Easter treats!

We handed out a brilliant badge haul, including 2 Guide Bronze Awards and the Guide unit’s first Silver Award - congrats Francesca!

We’re looking forward to being back for our Summer term in a weeks time and to enjoy this beautiful weather! ☀️

16/03/2026

During this term Guides and Rangers have celebrated Lunar New Year! 🧧🐎🐉🥠

The Guides challenged themselves to create animas from the Chinese zodiac out of tangrams, and then learnt about Chinese gongfu tea ceremonies and made their own ‘tea pets’. Traditionally made from clay, not play dough, these sit on the tea tray and the first steep of the tea is poured over them as part of the gongfu tea ceremony

The Rangers challenged themselves with some tricky origami, learnt about the legend of a 1000 cranes, gifted each other red envelopes with good fortunes enclosed and tried their hand at calligraphy all to earn their badge!

08/03/2026

✨💜Happy International Womens Day 💜✨

Proud of all the amazing Guides, Rangers, and Leaders who support, inspire, and lead the way for girls everywhere. Together we are strong, brave, and unstoppable. Thank you for making a difference and empowering the next generation. 🌍✨

07/03/2026

The special skills of a Guide:

1. 🌳💥 Tree Collision Specialist – running full speed into trees (they don’t move).
2. 🏃‍♀️🚩 Capture the Flag Expert – crawling, sprinting, climbing… all for a strip of fabric on a special stick.
3. 🐝🍝 Wasp Negotiator – eating breakfast while tiny winged stingers aim for the toast and jam.
4. 🪡✨ Wonky Badge Artisan – sewing badges at weird angles… proudly.
5. 🎒😂 Overpacker Extraordinaire – bringing everything “just in case.”
6. 🌿🪵🪢 Random Inventor – turning sticks & string into “essential camp tools.”
7. 🥾🌿 Mud Fashion Icon – grass stains and mud are technically part of the uniform.
8. ⛺😂 Tent Engineer – making tents stand… mostly upright.
9. 💧🛒💪 Water Carrier Hero – hauling endless containers of water with a stubborn trolley.
10. 👑 🧼 Washing up Queen – staying calm while soap suds fly and pans get rewashed 3 times.

Have you got what it takes?