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County Beaver Fun Day

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County Beaver Fun Day

Several Beavers and their families from 8th  Letchworth joined Beavers from around the County to spend the day at this year’s County Beaver Family Fun Day at Paradise Wildlife Park.

They had the opportunity to attend talks including ones about wildlife conservation and animal habitats. There were also regular keeper talks at all the animal enclosures and special shows throughout the day.

Tractor rides and train rides, hundreds of animals to look at and loads of play areas – what more could a Beaver ask for !  Continue reading →

Scouts, Yorkshire July 2013

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This summer, following regular requests from the scouts at our planning meetings for caving and gorge walking, 23 scouts, young leaders and leaders headed off to Thornthwaite Scout Campsite near Pateley Bridge in Yorkshire for a week of fun and outdoor activities – for some a chance to develop their skills further and for others an opportunity to try new activities. We had a fantastic time  thanks to everyone involved – including instructors from How Stean Gorge who took us caving, gorge walking, climbing and on their via ferrata and instructors from River Mountain Experience who took our older scouts and explorers on a canoe river trip. Continue reading →

Scouts Bike Ride & Geocache Challenge.

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A brilliant day out geocaching on bikes around the Greenway thanks to Richard and Jay’s excellent organising! Two groups left Letchworth early in the morning hoping to avoid the worst of the heat, the plan was that one group would cycle clockwise and the other anti- clockwise. They all had plenty of water on board as the day was forecast to be extremely hot.

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