Toilet Twinning
1st Crawley Scouts have funded families in eight different countries to build their own basic toilet, access clean water and learn about hygiene – a vital combination that saves lives. It all started last...
Category: Hikes
Hike #71: Amberley – Bignor
1st Crawley Beavers, Cubs and Scouts have been out hiking again. Hike #71. Amberley – Bignor . 10 mile route: Amberley – Bury – West Burton – Bignor – Bignor Hill – Houghton Forest...
50 Hikes Badge
1st Crawley are proud to be a ‘hiking group’, with regular monthly hikes around Sussex and Surrey and annual expeditions to the mountains of North and South Wales. Today while hiking out in the...
Brecon Beacons 2023
The Autumn half term saw the return of our annual Brecon Beacons (or should that be Bannau Brycheiniog) long weekend expedition. On Sunday we headed out onto the hills, hoping to bag a trio...
Downsman 2023
Congratulations to a new 1st Crawley team on completing their first Downsman hike! The 11-mile Open Class hike took our team from Plumpton College to Itford under unseasonably warm, blue skies. Taking turns at...
Climbing Ben Nevis – in Lockdown!
We might all be at home. but that didn’t stop one of our Scouts dreaming of higher things: the highest mountain in the U.K., Ben Nevis! So on 26 April, it was boots on,...
Group Hike #44
Pulborough to Amberley via Parham Park. 10 miles15 of us picked another beautiful day for a walk across Pulborough Brooks, through Parham Park and up Kithurst Hill to finish with a nice downhill stroll...
Operation HQ Success for 1st Crawley
Saturday 18 May saw the Crawley scout groups in action for Operation HQ. Teams had to navigate and hike between the town’s group HQ’s, tackling an ‘incident’ at each hut. At Oak Road we...
The Mysterious Long Man
Group Hike #37 The first day of Autumn saw 1st Crawley head out into the hills for the first time after the summer break. But someone forgot to tell the weather that the seasons...
