Council Estate Cub Pack
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- Week nineteen – We’re back!
- Social Services
- Our First Ever 4 Night Summer Camp
- Week eighteen – rain
- Week eighteen – the police visit
- Week seventeen – sports in the park
- Week sixteen – First Aid Night…
- Week fifteen – pioneering!
- Week fourteen – the MP visits. And cries.
- Week thirteen – summer camp planning and sausages
- Week twelve- the fire station
- Week eleven – I’m not there!
- Week ten – cooking…
- Week nine – a walk in the park
- Week eight – painty madness!
- End of term, Easter, and sad news.
- We have a quartermaster!
- FIRST CAMP
- At the pub with Kush.
- Week seven.. DIY…
- Council Estate Cub Pack… Week Six. It’s real!
- About the money!
- Animal Carer badge – the fifth meeting.
- Badges… The fourth meeting…
- Half term – time to reflect NO SICK TO CLEAN UP!
- Is this normal? The third meeting…
- The second meeting…
- The first meeting.
- Here we go!
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After out summer holidays, we’re back! What will this term have in store for us? What we cleaned up: Nothing!Two meetings in a row without chaos debris.A new record.A miracle.Possibly a sign that the universe is aligning… or that the council sweep team is on Olympic form. Either way — we’ll take it. Best excuse…
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“Hello this is Sarah, I’m a social worker working with a family you might know, Tommy. Are you sitting down, Tommy is OK but his dad was killed yesterday.. And Tommy won’t talk to us and is asking for you.” Tommy is staying with a foster family at the moment, mum isn’t coping and is…
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Four nights.FOUR.Nights. Our Cubs the wild, wonderful, loud, emotional, brilliant, chaotic Cubs of our council estate just did a full 4-night summer camp, and they absolutely smashed it. This was not a “dip your toe in camping” weekend.This was the big one: And they did it all every single one of them. Yes 100% attendance…
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What we cleaned up: Just a few crumbs and a scattering of game pieces that somehow migrated under everything.Considering the weather tantrum happening outside, we’ll call that a win. Best excuse of the night: “Well so about the sweets.”Indeed. Somewhere mysterious. Best moment: Discovering that Cards Against Humanity: Kids Edition is officially the funniest thing…
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What we cleaned up: Nothing. Again.The council’s pre-meeting sweep continues to be the best thing since sliced bread and since this week involved the police turning up,we were extra grateful for a drama-free doorstep. Best excuse of the night: “I didn’t steal his hat, I was BORROWING it.” Passion is now legally distinct from theft,…
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Litter. Lots of it.Crisp packets.Plastic bottles.Random rubbish drifting across the grass like tumbleweed in a budget Western.The Cubs launched into cleanup mode with surprising enthusiasm one even said,“This is good for the planet AND my muscles!”We support the confidence. Best excuse of the night: “I didn’t fall… the ground rose up to meet me!”Gravity remains…
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What we cleaned up: Nothing. Absolutely nothing.For the first time in sixteen weeks…NOT A SINGLE THING. No needles.No broken glass.No mystery food piles.No chaos debris. Why? Because the council are now inspecting the area before we meet and that is entirely thanks to our MP, who saw what we were dealing with and made one…
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What we cleaned up: Twenty tins of paint blocking the fire exit.TWENTY.Not ten.Not “a few.”TWENTY. Why were they there?Who put them there?Why were half of them open? We will never know.We simply cleared them, sighed deeply, and carried on. Best excuse of the night: “Well I needed a wee….” Hard to argue, but please not…
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What we cleaned up: Broken beer bottles.Lots of them.Sparkling like the world’s saddest fairy lights outside the hall. And… someone set fire to rubbish by the front door,so we’re now officially using the side door only,which makes us feel like we’re sneaking into our own building. Just another Monday on the estate. Best excuse of…
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What we cleaned up: Charcoal footprints across the hall,a burnt sausage that somehow welded itself to the BBQ grill,and half a broken tent pole that just appeared on the floor. We are not asking questions. Best excuse of the night: “I didn’t break the tent… it broke itself when I was helping.” Was he “helping”?Unclear.Was…
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What we cleaned up: Hardly anything because we weren’t in the hall!A rare win for the mop bucket.(Although someone did manage to bring back a pocket full of gravel from the fire station. Standard.) Best excuse of the night: “I didn’t mean to spray the extinguisher that much… it just really wanted to come out.”…
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What we cleaned up: Used needles by the front door.Again.A grim reminder of what our estate kids walk past every day. And by the fire exit?A pile of… something.Food?Once-food?Food-adjacent matter?Unclear.Unpleasant.Removed immediately. This is the reality of where we meet and exactly why we do meet. Best excuse of the night: “I didn’t cheat… I was…
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What we cleaned up: Noodles. On every surface known to man.Noodles on chairs.Noodles on the floor.Noodles in hair.Noodles inside a shoe that WAS NOT REMOVED DURING COOKING. We also discovered a carrot slice on the ceiling.We are still investigating. Best excuse of the night: “The pan was too hot so I threw the vegetables at…
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What we cleaned up: Half a smashed watermelon and several abandoned sandwiches.Someone brought “picnic practice food” and the Cubs treated it like a live training exercise for a seagull riot. We also found a map in a puddle,“THIS IS NOT WHERE WE ARE.”Correct. Best excuse of the night: “I wasn’t lost… I was exploring.” Said…
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What we cleaned up: Paint. Everywhere.On tables, on chairs, on leaders, on faces, on the floor, on a bird house that now looks like it’s dissolving, and on one Cub who insisted,“Its not my handprint….” We also found a paintbrush in a shoe.Whose shoe? Unknown.Whose brush? Also unknown. Best excuse of the night: “I didn’t…
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It’s Easter Holidays, all our Cubs are home from school. It’s been so lovely seeing them around out neighbourhood and hearing “HELLO AKELA!”. Whilst blue lights and sirens are a common thing here, sadly, some blue lights and sirens came yesterday to the aid of one of our Cubs who was hit by a speeding…
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A QM is the person who takes care of all the equipment Every Scout Group reaches a moment when someone looks at the equipment store, squints, and says the words everyone else is too polite (or too traumatised) to say out loud. For us, that moment came this week. One dad, estate-born, ex-Army, now a…
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Our First Council Estate Cub Camp — Chaos, Courage & Cooking on Fire This weekend, we took our Cubs off the estate and into the wilderness, and by wilderness, we mean a proper Scout campsite with actual trees, actual mud, and an actual forest that some of our kids didn’t fully believe existed. It was…
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A Quiet Moment: ADHD on the Estate Every now and then, between the sawdust, the dodgeballs, and the noise ,we get a moment to breathe and really see our Cubs.And when we do, one thing becomes painfully clear: A lot of our kids are struggling with ADHD and autism and…Not the “a bit chatty, a…
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What we cleaned up: A pile of sawdust that absolutely should not have been that big. We asked, “Who has been sawing without permission?”Three Cubs pointed at each other.One pointed at a leader.One said, “It wasn’t me, I was just breathing near it.” We also found a screw in someone’s sock.No follow-up questions were asked.…
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What we cleaned up: A trail of biscuit mush leading from the hall to the toilets.At some point, someone clearly panicked, tightened their tiny fist, and turned a Custard Cream into wet dust. We also found part of a sausage roll on the radiator.We do not want to know. Best excuse of the night: “I…
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We Have Money! Actual Money! This is the bit we’re still processing. Someone looked at our hall, our excitable Cubs, our frantic leaders, and said: “Yes. £5000 seems appropriate for these people.” This means we can: It’s game-changing.Life-changing. Now to be clear, we did have a little from HQ. That’s going to buy some flags,…
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Flying be the seat of our pants! Here we are, Kush and I, at the pub. One beer in and we are working out what to do next…Half a term into running a brand-new Cub Pack on a council estate. We have: And absolutely no idea what we’re doing. Not in a bad way, in…
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