The Great Outdoors together

You couldn't really consider Scouting without looking at outdoor pursuits which often leads us to Camp. 

That's right, to get some idea of the scale of importance of Baden-Powell's vision for boys (and girls) and how fast it took off, just look at the text on the bottom left of this vintage photograph.
Scouts at Patshull Camp, near Wolverhampton, South Staffordshire just four years after Scouting For Boys was published tucking into a meal under canvas that served the Black Country and the Telford & Wrekin area of Shropshire for one hundred years.

Many of those boys never had any remotely similar opportunities in their lives to learn new skills, take part in activities and competitions making new friends before.

Today a block of say a weekend of activities may be booked by a local Scout Association at a external provider such as Beaudesert Outdoor Activity Centre near Rugeley, South-east Staffordshire, within Cannock Chase, where these Cubs are taking part in a outdoor task.

Here they may scale trees, go climbing, undertake water sports such as canoeing apart from learning Bush Craft.

Again by being together they learn to work as a team, forming new friendships and bonds while discovering abilities they never knew they had within themselves.