On Saturday, the District took part in Newcastle Town Centre’s 1st Food Festival. Taking over the area by the Market Cross and Guild Hall, we had raffles, tombola, tea and cakes for sale, cooking pancakes on tin cans, pizza ovens…
2014’s District Cub’s 5-a-Side Football Tournament
Well Done to all 9 Packs who took part in the Cub District 5-a-side Football Competition at Keele this afternoon. Winning the trophy for the second year running was 36th St. Wulstan’s who beat 15th St Giles in the final…
Investing Dad
Last week a new Assistant Scout Leader was invested at 79th Holy Trinity Scouts. This is not an unusual event in itself. However, as Simon was invested, the Troop’s flag was held by two Scouts who happened to be his…
Newcastle Leader Nominated for an Award!
We are very proud to hear that Assistant Cub Scout Leader, Alex Peatfield from 94th St. John’s Keele, has been nominated for a Sentinel Newspaper Our Hero Award! You can read the article here. We wish Alex the best of…
Recent District Cub Activities
The District Cubs have been rather busy over the last week. Firstly on Wednesday 18th June they held their annual Sports Evening. Well done to Madeley Cubs who were the overall winners. Thanks to everyone for turning up and to Hempstalls…
District Cub Camp May 2014
May’s District Cub Camp took place on the Beech Field and in the Fox Glen at Kibblestone Scout Camp with 5 packs attending. The theme for for the weekend was Camelot, or in our case “Cubalot”. The Cubs made Dragons…
Castle Capers 2014 is Almost Here!
Tomorrow night (Tuesday) is the first night of our District’s Gang Show, Castle Capers. Many hundreds of hours of hard work and rehearsing have been put in by the cast and those working behind the scenes to produce this year’s…
Castle Capers Gang Show – Less Than a Month Away!
Our Gang Show, Castle Capers is less than a month away! Tickets are available to NOW! The show, which is celebrating its 40th birthday this year, will be staged at the Mitchell Arts Centre in Hanley from Tuesday 22nd to…
New Assistant District Commissioner Cubs
I am pleased to announce that I have just appointed Laura Alcock as ADC Cubs, after a long period without anybody in that role. Laura has been Cub Leader at 14th Basford for many years and up until her appointment…
First District Cub Camp of 2014
Our first camp of the year, we combined St Giles with Westlands, and were very well supported by Newcastle and Nantwich Young Leader units and Keele Network which put 46 uniformed members on-site. When asked what our wet-weather programme was?…
