1st Wendover Scout Group

02/11/2026

🐿️ Tonight is a very special night for us… our very first Squirrels session! 🌳

After months of planning, preparing and getting everything ready, we’re finally opening our doors and welcoming our first 12 Squirrels to the group!

We can’t wait to get to know our first Squirrels, make lots of memories and have plenty of fun along the way. This is just the beginning of their Scouting adventure! 🐿️

A huge thank you to all the leaders and volunteers who have put so much time and effort into making this happen over the last few months. It’s taken lots of hard work behind the scenes, and we couldn’t have done it without you.

A special thank you also goes to Wendover Parish Council for their grant, which has helped us get our new Squirrels section up and running.

Here’s to the start of something exciting! 💚

21/10/2026

🎃 Apollo scouts take on the Haunted Pumpkin Trials! 🎃

Time to use their teamwork skills - communicating, planning, supporting one another and all contributing to beat the clock across four challenges.

🎃 Ghostly Guts: digging through slimy pumpkin guts to find hidden ghost tokens, pens and design templates
🌋Floor is Lava: pioneering two canes and a cup hook to fish out the keys, then unlocking a box of tealights and matches
🧙Magic Witch Portal: cutting a single sheet of A4 into a portal big enough for the whole patrol to step through
🧩 Haunted Maze: solving the maze puzzles to unlock the box holding the carving tool tokens

With their tools earned, it was time to get carving, and the results were properly impressive.

It wasn’t all about pumpkins though! The evening was topped off with spooky biscuit decorating followed by a BIG tidy-up. A great start to the Teamwork Challenge Award! 🏆

20/10/2026

Massive thanks to all the leader teams in 1st Wendover (all volunteers) - without you, the young people of Wendover wouldn’t have a Squirrel Drey, Beaver Colonies, Cub Packs, a Scout Troop or an Explorer Unit 🙏💜

A heartfelt thank you to all our volunteers. 💜scouts.org.uk/volunteer

15/10/2026

🛠️ Teamwork in Action at Cubs! 🛠️
Last night was Cardboard Build Night! Armed with plenty of tools, screws, and imagination, each Six was challenged to work together to design and build their very own car.
It was wonderful seeing the Cubs plan together, assign roles, solve problems, and bring their ideas to life. Huge well done to all of our Sixes for such incredible creativity and team spirit! 🌟

12/10/2026

Lost in the dark? Not Apollo Scouts! 🧭😉

Eight teams from Apollo took on The Big O orienteering event on Saturday, alongside 136 teams from across the county. Four of our teams found every single control point and a special mention goes to Apollo 6, who finished 12th overall 👏🏻 Brilliant navigating, everyone 🙌

Preparation had begun the previous two Mondays. Half the troop headed to Wendover Woods while the other half took on Mission Wendover, with a swap over the next week. 🔄

🌲 In the woods, the Scouts had it even harder than on Saturday: it was dark. Working in small teams by torchlight, they had to read the map, take bearings and track down points hidden among the trees, then navigate their way from the woods back to the Scout hut. After that, finding things in daylight felt a lot easier. 🔦

🏘️ Mission Wendover was urban orienteering. Each patrol had a map, a compass and a survey, and navigated their way around various spots in Wendover. Along the way they found out more about Wendover's history and community, which counts towards their World Challenge Award. 🌍

It all paid off on Saturday. 🙌

A big thank you to our leaders who planned the sessions and even spent a night on the Scout hut floor for a sleepover so that everyone was up bright and early ready to compete 💜

Sound better than a night in front of the TV on a Monday?! Want to get involved? Drop us a message - we’d love to hear from you!

07/10/2026

MasterChef status unlocked! 👩‍🍳👨‍🍳

Mars Cubs to cranked out 28 pizzas from scratch during pack night, and every single one looked and tasted incredible. So proud of the hard work and cooking skills on display tonight. Amazing job, Cubs! 🍕❤️

03/10/2026

🚀 **Alien Space Debris Hunt Success!** 🛸

Our Cubs went on an out-of-this-world mission this past Tuesday, hunting for glowing fragments of a crashed alien spaceship! 🌌✨

Equipped with flashlights and their trusty map-reading skills, the young explorers navigated the dark, tracked down the "space debris," and saved the night. Great fun was had by all! 🗺️🔦

Check out some highlights from our interstellar adventure below! 👇

24/09/2026

🏃‍♂️🦫 The Mighty Beaver Run! 🦫🏃‍♀️

Tonight our Beavers took on the Mighty Beaver Run around Coombe Hill!

They ran, walked, encouraged each other and kept going all the way to the finish line, what a fantastic effort from everyone! 🙌

So much determination, lots of tired little legs and plenty of very proud Beavers (and leaders!).

Well done Beavers, you smashed it! ⭐️🦫

21/09/2026

🚴 This weekend a group of Apollo Scouts were out and about completing the final part of their Cyclist badge. 🏅

On Friday they prepped their bikes 🔧 and then slept in the scout hut 🏕️ so they could be up early and off to Wiltshire.

The bike ride covered around 20 miles through rolling countryside 🌿, with 1,300 ft of climbing along the way ⛰️. Our riders ranged from 10 to 13 years old, and every one of them kept pedalling. 💪

Well done to all the Scouts and the leaders who rode alongside them! 👏

30/06/2026

Looking for something that stands out on a CV or college application, but is actually fun to do? 🎓🔥

Explorer Scouts isn't just about camping (though we love that too!). It’s about building real-world skills that set you up for life.

Through the Explorer programme, you can:
🚀 Lead: Take charge of projects and mentor younger sections as a Young Leader.
🏆 Achieve: Work toward prestigious Top Awards, including the King’s Scout Award and the Explorer Scout Young Leader Belt.
💪 Grow: Boost your confidence, resilience, and teamworking skills.
Give yourself an edge while having the time of your life.

📅 We meet every Wednesday at 7pm. Parents and young people, drop us a message today to book a trial night!